Senior VFX Artist: Stylized Unity3D, Remote

Impleo; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible contracts

Long-term collaboration

Creative ownership

Experienced collaborators

Annual team retreats

Job summary

Impleo, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Senior VFX Artist for stylized games using Unity3D. The role is fully remote with international collaboration and long-term growth opportunities.

You will own effects from concept to final in-engine, optimize for performance, mentor others, and contribute to production standards across platforms. A strong portfolio and fluency in English are required, with mobile-friendly visuals a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience as a real-time VFX Artist in game development.
• Experience contributing to commercially released games.
• Outstanding portfolio or VFX reel demonstrating polished, high-quality in-game effects and strong artistic judgment.
• Proven expertise in creating stylized visual effects with appealing timing, motion, shape language, color, and composition.
• Excellent understanding of animation principles, visual hierarchy, and gameplay readability.
• Proficiency in Unity3D particle systems, shaders, materials, and real-time VFX workflows, or comparable experience with another game engine.
• Practical experience creating textures, flipbooks, mesh particles, trails, and shader-driven effects.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering, performance optimization, and the technical constraints of interactive environments.
• Ability to independently develop visual effects from initial exploration through final in-engine implementation.
• Strong attention to detail, creative problem-solving skills, and the ability to balance artistic ambition with technical requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English.
• Experience with stylized mobile games, pixel-inspired or simplified aesthetics, or expressive combat and character effects is an advantage.
• Additional skills in Shader Graph, HLSL, custom shader development, Houdini, EmberGen, or other VFX creation tools are desirable.
• Knowledge of mobile GPU optimization, experience mentoring artists, contributing to VFX quality benchmarks, or working in a co-development environment is also beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, stylized real-time visual effects for gameplay, combat, character abilities, and environments.
• Develop visually distinctive effects using compelling shape language, color, timing, motion, and composition while maintaining a cohesive artistic direction.
• Ensure effects communicate gameplay information clearly, balancing visual impact with readability and responsiveness.
• Refine anticipation, impact, follow-through, and recovery to deliver satisfying and intuitive player feedback.
• Implement effects directly in Unity3D or comparable game engines using particle systems, shaders, textures, flipbooks, meshes, trails, and other real-time techniques.
• Optimize particle counts, overdraw, shaders, textures, and other performance-sensitive elements to meet quality and performance requirements across target platforms.
• Collaborate with art directors, game designers, animators, technical artists, and engineers to translate creative direction and gameplay requirements into effective visual solutions.
• Work closely with technical teams to resolve rendering and implementation challenges and develop reusable assets, templates, and efficient production workflows.
• Participate in VFX reviews, contribute to artistic quality standards, and provide constructive feedback to other artists when needed.
• Take ownership of assigned effects from initial exploration and concept development through implementation, iteration, and final polish.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve visual quality, gameplay feedback, and production efficiency.

Job description

Impleo, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Senior VFX Artist for stylized games using Unity3D. The role is fully remote with international collaboration and long-term growth opportunities.

You will own effects from concept to final in-engine, optimize for performance, mentor others, and contribute to production standards across platforms. A strong portfolio and fluency in English are required, with mobile-friendly visuals a plus.