Artiste Senior, Effets Visuels (VFX) / Senior VFX Artist

People Can Fly

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About The Position

We are looking for a Senior VFX Artist to join us on an exciting project! You will bring your skills and expertise to help with the following tasks and duties.

Requirements

• Proven VFX Artist experience; stylized FX knowledge; shader-building skills; particle systems experience (Niagara, VFX Graph, Houdini); Maya or equivalent; strong communication; proactive problem-solving.
• Expected to interface frequently with client stakeholders, aligning FX work with animation, combat design, and engineering.
• Must be proactive in surfacing risks around performance, readability, and consistency across legacy-converted assets.
• Requires strong grounding in stylized real-time VFX, shader authoring, and visual scripting (Blueprint-like systems).
• Comfort balancing art direction with technical constraints is essential.
• Strong communication is required: able to liaise with design, animation, lighting, and engineering without hand-holding, validating effects directly in game builds.
• Needs to thrive in client’s tool-driven environment, where automation, reusability, and scalability are expected.
• Must adapt legacy FX assets into modern PBR/shader pipelines without losing the intent of the original.
• Acts as a mentor: helps guide partners and junior FX artists in balancing artistic vision with runtime efficiency.
• Should be an avid player of melee action games, understanding how FX timing, readability, and style influence combat feel.
• VFX artists need to be performance-aware and gameplay-driven, not purely stylistic.
• Must be comfortable building FX shaders, scripting FX logic, and debugging complex real-time FX.
• Capable of supporting automation in FX pipelines (e.g., Houdini procedural systems, batch conversion of legacy particle libraries).
• Able to bridge legacy particle/flipbook FX into modern GPU-driven workflows (VFX Graph, in-house systems).
• Proficiency in English is required for this position, as the role involves regular communication with international colleagues, partners, and stakeholders based outside of Québec.

Nice To Haves

• AAA shipped title(s); experience with game engines; ability to draw FX textures and flipbook animations.

Responsibilities

• Create/implement particle and shader FX; integrate seamlessly into gameplay/cinematics; mentor and provide feedback; ensure FX run within performance budgets; use visual scripting to drive FX logic.
• Maintain artistic direction and quality Produce high quality VFX creation suitable technically and artistically with the project's universe and visual direction.
• Collaborate on setting artistic vision with the Art Director, as well as maintaining the quality standards across the entire development pipeline.
• Translate concept art and any other available game design documents into prototype and implement it as real-time VFX in game.
• Oversee and facilitate the creation of ambient environment effects that enhance mood, tell a story, and make the world feel alive.
• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Work closely with the production team on tasks assignment and schedule to meet deadlines, also ensuring healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work.
• Supervision of bug fixing and describing R&D case studies in knowledge base.
• Understand and employ established asset organizational structures and naming conventions to ensure cohesion within the VFX pipeline.
• Provide day-to-day feedback improvement to visual quality.
• Working with the team to find solutions and creatively solve problems.
• Oversee and facilitate the creation of gameplay effects that make the world feel exciting, and that give the player necessary gameplay feedback.
• Knowledge sharing and mentoring peers.
• Collaborate with Tech Art and drive R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Work with developers in multiple disciplines and ensure that work gets integrated into the build.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively across departments with other Leads, Directors, and project stakeholders to ensure efficiency and minimize miscommunication.
• Work with designers to create effects for scripted events and story moments.
• Work with the lighting department to create atmosphere, a sense of depth in the scene, and to reinforce the color palette.
• Conduct consistent performance and compensation reviews of staff members.
• Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.

Benefits

• Benefit package 100% paid by PCF.
• The insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $1000 per service a year, as well as individual family coverage).
• Full Dental coverage, including major dental.
• 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1.
• Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
• 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
• Free virtual health and mental well-being sessions are included in the plan for members and their dependents.
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees