Studio Wildcard
Studio Wildcard
51 – 200 Darbinieki
Videospēles
Studio Wildcard is a gaming company behind ARK: Survival Evolved and its sequel, ARK II. Its survival games combine open-ended exploration and crafting with a story about humanity’s evolution, placing players in dangerous worlds populated by dinosaurs and other hostile life. Studio Wildcard’s work centers on building expansive survival experiences for players.

Remote VFX Director, Unreal Engine

Set the artistic direction and lead the VFX team creating real-time gameplay and cinematic effects for Studio Wildcard’s ARK game worlds. Shape production workflows and pipelines while balancing visual quality, gameplay readability, and performance in Unreal.

Apraksts

  • Set and uphold the VFX vision and quality standards across Studio Wildcard projects.
  • Lead, mentor, and give creative direction to VFX artists, supporting their growth and development.
  • Create VFX style guides, visual standards, workflows, and production practices.
  • Partner with art, engineering, design, animation, cinematics, and production teams to create cohesive visuals.
  • Direct interactive effects for environments, abilities, weapons, creatures, destruction, weather, magic, and explosions.
  • Ensure VFX assets meet performance, scalability, readability, and platform needs.
  • Work with technical artists and engineers to improve VFX tools, shaders, materials, particle systems, and pipelines.
  • Set up efficient VFX review and iteration processes.
  • Balance visual polish with gameplay clarity and technical performance.
  • Join creative reviews and give artists clear, actionable feedback.
  • Help plan VFX staffing, schedules, priorities, and production resources.
  • Find emerging VFX tools and techniques that can improve quality and efficiency.
  • Stay current with real-time rendering, simulation, procedural, and cinematic VFX techniques.
  • Set creative direction, build an ambitious artistic culture, mentor artists, encourage experimentation, uphold quality standards, and represent the VFX team in planning and technical development.

Prasības

  • Bring 7 or more years of professional VFX experience in AAA games, film, animation, or comparable real-time entertainment.
  • Have prior experience leading or directing a VFX team.
  • Understand real-time VFX production and Unreal Engine 5 or later.
  • Show that you can establish and maintain a consistent visual style across a large project.
  • Demonstrate strong artistic judgment in color, composition, timing, motion, lighting, scale, and visual storytelling.
  • Have experience with particle systems, shaders or materials, textures, animation, simulations, and procedural effects.
  • Understand performance optimization and real-time rendering constraints.
  • Communicate, lead, and collaborate effectively.
  • Give clear artistic feedback and help maintain a positive, creative team environment.
  • Have worked across disciplines in game development.
  • Provide a portfolio showcasing high-quality VFX work.
  • Preferred: Experience with Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.
  • Preferred: Experience creating VFX for large open-world or multiplayer games.
  • Preferred: Experience with creature, environmental, elemental, weather, destruction, and combat effects.
  • Preferred: Experience directing cinematic VFX and trailer work.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Niagara, Houdini, Substance tools, or similar procedural and VFX technologies.
  • Preferred: Experience building or improving VFX production pipelines and tools.
  • Preferred: Experience working with technical artists and graphics programmers.
  • Preferred: Interest in dinosaurs, creatures, survival games, science fiction, fantasy, or expansive worlds.
  • Submit a resume, portfolio, and cover letter with your application.
  • In your cover letter, explain your interest in Studio Wildcard and name the games you are currently playing.
  • Include portfolio or reel examples of real-time gameplay VFX, combat or ability effects, environments, creature or character effects, large-scale effects and simulations, shader or material work where relevant, and cinematic VFX where relevant.

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