As part of its development and growth, and for its ambitious upcoming productions, QUANTIC DREAM is expending its teams and is hiring a Lead VFX Artist to be responsible for leading the VFX art team, taking responsibility for visual quality benchmarks and create amazing in-game visuals effects.
As Lead VFX Artist you will work closely with the Art Director and Production staff to ensure that visuals effects are delivered in a timely manner and to a high level of quality. Strong communication and managment skills will be essential to balance these requirements. You must be flexible, highly motivated and detail conscious.
Required skills
- +5 years of VFX team lead experience. Must have shipped at least one AAA title ;
- Strong technical proficiency in understanding proprietary tools and technology ;
- Proven excellent leadership skills. Able to communicate effectively verbally and visually ;
- Strong understanding of real-time VFX technics and pipeline ;
- Able to hit established technical & quality visuals effects benchmarks without supervision ;
- Must be able to work closely with engineers, designer and animators to create stunning VFX ;
- Alongside the VFX Lead and engine programmers, build future tools and improve pipelines and graphic potential ;
- Able to maintain a balance between visual quality and performance requirements for AAA real-time games ;
- Work with Art Direction to create and keep artistic style & mood consistent with defined visual style for the games ;
- Ability to source & highlight examples of inspirational work that pushes technical and aesthetic quality ;
- Able to mentor team members and provide concise art feedback ;
- Positive attitude and a desire to bring new ideas to the team.
Portfolio/website demonstrating your art skills, design sensibilities, and attention to detail desirable.
FRENCH IS (NOT) A MUST for this position, you will be working in an international environment.
Technical Requirements :
- Excellent knowledge of any real time 3D engine & PBR shaders ;
- Excellent knowledge of Maya, Photoshop ;
- Knowledge of CG Software (FumeFX, Realflow, Houdini…) ;
- Expert with particle and fluid systems as well as geometry based VFX and real-time physics system ;
- Strong knowledge in scripting (Python/Mel).
Permanent position, full-time position.