FX Art Lead Porto Alegre

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ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for an experienced FX Art Lead to join our team working on Fortnite. A successful candidate should have a strong sense of dramatic effects and an understanding of how to recreate them in a real time particle editor. They will be first and foremost a team player, while also having the ability to be self-motivated and work autonomously. If you have a strong sense of weight, timing, motion, and you demonstrate technical aptitude with Materials and Logic, we are ready for you to bring those abilities to execute outstanding FX in our games.

In this role, you will

Create all art needed for the visual effects, including FX concept, proto and final FX, with blueprint and Niagara logic, models, textures, materials, camera effects, animations and particles

Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized

Lead a growing team of effects artists, mentor and coach artists you work with

Collaborate with other discipline teams to produce cohesive game experience

Partner with external vendors, onboard and support production of FX outside of Epic Games

Drive the style and feel of Fortnite’s FX

Work closely with the production on the schedule to deliver the FX in a timely manner

What we’re looking for

Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed Real-Time FX work

Critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real-world objects and visual FX with an ability to bring dramatic FX to life with a flair

Good instincts for realistic and stylized FX

Ability to create all art needed for the FX

Experience in VFX (games or film) is a must. Shipped AAA game titles is a plus

Familiarity with UE5 or other real-time engine art pipelines is a big plus

If you have a portfolio/reel/website you'd like to share, please hyperlink it to your resume, or submit it as an attachment with your application. (OPTIONAL - art roles only)

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We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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