Vfx Artist jobs in Vancouver, BC

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As a Senior Object Artist, you have the visual and technical skill set with passion to hone the Player Experience. You enhance your peers and team through influencing workflow, mentorship, and hands-on creation of content. As a creative, you are autonomous and excel in a collaborative environment.

You will report to a Development Director.

Location: Vancouver, hybrid three days a week in studio.

Responsibilities:

• Model, Texture, UV 3D content.

• Deliver content to Production, Design, Animation and Art Direction prerequisites
• Rig and skin game objects
• Oversee feature designs including new objects and present to stakeholders
• Partner with peers to lead aligned execution.
• Host meetings
• Create placeholder art and prototypes
• Provide estimates, deliver content within estimations and at quality
• Consult on shader enhancements and practical application within scope of production needs
• Basic object light tuning to ensure visual fidelity and consistency
• Can report bugs and navigate resolution

• Create project documentation

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in art game development

• PC, console or Mobile development
• Proficient in Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter / Designer, Marmoset, and Photoshop
• Stylized art and PBR authoring experience
• Hand painted texture & baked pipeline proficiency
• Experience modeling and texturing household items, furniture, machinery and organic objects
• Rigging and skinning of hard surface and organic models
• Experience with light, shadow and how it defines shape and form
• Experience optimizing models and texture to be performant across a range of hardware specs

• Traditional art skills in drawing, painting, and composition

Applications must include a portfolio demonstrating:

• Focus on stylized work from professional or production quality projects.

• High-quality environment assets demonstrating clean topology, edge flow, and efficient, game-ready geometry (hard surface and organic).
• Stylized texturing examples using hybrid hand-painted and PBR workflows.
• Experience with high-to-low baked pipelines (normal, AO, and supporting maps).
• Working knowledge of rigging and skinning fundamentals in Maya.
• Clear UV layouts with efficient texture and atlas packing.

• Experience with shape, form, volume, and composition.

• Stylized material creation in Substance Designer with foundational procedural workflows.