As a Senior VFX Artist at Ubisoft Montr茅al, you will take the lead in mentoring the VFX team and delivering visually impressive effects that enhance gameplay and immerse players in our worlds. From smoke and fire to explosions, snowfall, or waterfalls, your creations will enrich the game鈥檚 atmosphere and spark curiosity.
You鈥檒l blend artistic vision with technical expertise, adapting to various tools while focusing on impactful, high-quality, real-time VFX. You鈥檒l guide the team in producing optimized visual effects, manage priorities, and maintain critical resources like the texture library.
What you鈥檒l do
- Mentor and review the work of the VFX team, covering both artistic aspects (textures, animations) and technical performance.
- Collaborate with the core team to understand the creative vision, setting visual effect priorities and maintaining an optimized texture library.
- Create realistic environmental, gameplay and cinematic effects using particle systems and custom textures.
- Partner with programmers and technical artists to define needs and develop tools.
- Work within technical constraints to produce functional and visually engaging effects.
- Integrate your VFX assets into the game engine.
- Refine effects based on playtest results and team feedback, ensuring optimization and performance.
- Balance creative ambition with project limitations while adapting to feedback.