Realtime VFX Artist — Hybrid/Onsite, Immersive Game Effects

Content Creators; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Naughty Dog is seeking a Visual Effects Artist to join the team on a hybrid/onsite basis. You will visualize, create and implement real-time VFX, optimize for performance, and collaborate with the development team to deliver high-quality effects for our games and related media.

The ideal candidate will have strong VFX experience, a solid understanding of form, color, timing, and composition, and a proactive, team-oriented mindset to tackle challenges across platforms and pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience with real-time VFX for games or film
• Strong optimization skills for performance
• Excellent sense of form, color, timing, and composition
• Self-motivated and able to work with others to resolve issues

Responsibilities

• Visualize, create and implement real-time visual effects
• Create effects that work optimally on the target platform
• Be proactive and self-motivated, seeking out tasks remaining to be done
• Collaborate with other effects artists, and the rest of the development team to make the best game possible
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

Skills

Sprite particles

Materials in game engine

VFX experience in media

Optimization

Form color timing composition

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

Game engine tools

Job description

Naughty Dog is seeking a Visual Effects Artist to join the team on a hybrid/onsite basis. You will visualize, create and implement real-time VFX, optimize for performance, and collaborate with the development team to deliver high-quality effects for our games and related media.

The ideal candidate will have strong VFX experience, a solid understanding of form, color, timing, and composition, and a proactive, team-oriented mindset to tackle challenges across platforms and pipelines.