VFX Artist - Agency Contract

Playground Games

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

Playground Games is seeking a VFX Artist to work with its Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract. The role involves creating high-quality visual effects, elevating the game's visuals, and contributing creative ideas while communicating and collaborating with the wider team. The artist will use an understanding of animation, dynamics, and lighting to create or emulate a broad range of art styles in a real-time engine or through offline rendering. The position offers autonomy to plan and deliver tasks to expected standards, as well as opportunities to collaborate with engineering teams on new technologies, innovations, and processes.

The role is based at the studio in Royal Leamington Spa and follows a hybrid working model, with a minimum of three days per week in the studio. The successful candidate will be employed by the company's agency partner and assigned to work with Playground Games. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Requirements

• Great understanding of art fundamentals and a strong interest in realistic visuals.
• Experience with PopcornFX, Niagara, or Houdini particle simulations.
• Experience with HLSL, GLSL, Python, or similar.
• Experience on shipped AAA game projects.
• A genuine passion for games.
• Ability to work with a broad range of art styles and apply principles of animation, dynamics, and lighting.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement exceptional, realistic real-time VFX that bring the game world, gameplay, and features to life.
• Collaborate with Art, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver memorable player experiences.
• Improve visual quality through technical problem-solving and exploration of new workflows and technologies.
• Plan and deliver assigned tasks to the expected standards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop new technologies, innovations, and processes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed