Job Description

Department:
Virtual Art Department


Location:
Vancouver, BC


CoSA VFX is an award-winning, fast-paced, and highly collaborative Visual Effects studio with locations in Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Atlanta. We are seeking Virtual Art Department Unreal Generalist for current and upcoming projects. While this is a remote role, artists in British Columbia and Ontario will be given preference. RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work within a team to develop and deliver highly detailed and optimized 3D assets and Virtual Environments inside the Unreal Engine for use in Virtual Productions for Film, commercials, and Episodic Television.
• Work within a team to output high quality assets
• Understand client feedback accordingly to produce high-quality, client focused assets
• Work to meet defined deadlines
• Serve as an active participant in team art discussions, critiques, and reviews
• Capable of picking up setups from other artists as well as creating looks from scratch
• Engage effectively on multiple projects at the same time
• Solve creative problems using simple, efficient techniques, and communicate ideas and techniques with teammates, and iterate rapidly based on client notes
• Work with a broad range of resources and tools to create environments that will be reviewed and manipulated in real-time using virtual production techniques
• Creates texture maps and sets up basic shaders for look development.

• 2+ years of professional game production or Virtual Art Department experience in a Senior or Lead Artist role
• A commitment to teamwork, excellent communication, and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and self-motivation
• Advanced knowledge of Unreal Engine
• Expertise of modeling/Texturing/Shading/Lighting/Post Process effects for game development.
• Working knowledge of Maya or equivalent
• Understanding of Substance Painter/Quixel Mixer or equivalent
• Proficiency in the areas of Layout, Sequencer Animation, and Rendering inside Unreal Engine

• Expertise of Scripting/Development tools and blueprint creation for Unreal
• Understanding of Source Control/Perforce
• Working knowledge of Shotgrid
• Competence of Optimization for Unreal
• Problem solver