The Walt Disney Company is hiring: Senior VFX Artist- Disney Games in Glendale

About the Role & Team

Disney Digital Entertainment, a division of Disney Experiences, is embarking on a mission to create the ‘digital front door’ for The Walt Disney Company, bringing all of the magic of Disney together into a new interactive universe.

We are building an expert development team that will be building a groundbreaking game experience that will herald the next generation of Disney to the world. Working with top-class industry talent, this role is perfect for the seasoned transformative Senior VFX Artist looking to create something epic - collaborating with an incredible group of game developers focusing on individual experiences to build a wonderfully rich and cohesive product that is truly “Disney”.

We are looking for a uniquely talented Senior VFX Artist to join us on a daring and exciting new project. If you are an imaginative creator with superb real-time visual effects skills, and have a love of Disney/Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel properties, you’ll want to check out this opportunity!

The Senior VFX Artist will report to the Director, Art.

This is a Full-Time role.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to visualize incredible gameplay, magical powers, and amazing transformations based on Disney’s robust portfolio of characters and worlds including Disney/Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars.
• Add life, movement and color to our worlds through atmospherics, weather and environmental effects created in Unreal 5, Niagara and other tools.
• Technically implement, integrate, troubleshoot, and ensure the visual fidelity and performance of VFX in game.
• Iterate on game assets with fellow artists via paint overs, studies and group critiques.
• Serve as a key member of a growing game development team at Disney.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5 plus years of game development experience, including holding a position of VFX Artist for at least 3 years.
• Portfolio demonstrating consistently excellent, eye-catching real-time VFX you’ve created for games.
• Extensive understanding of 3D graphics, shaders, particles systems, physics, ribbons, etc.
• Excellent sense of VFX movement, animation, timing, impact and anticipation.
• Ability to visualize effects with or without concept art, and the ability to create VFX textures, materials and geometry from scratch, matching a broad range of styles.
• Strong game design awareness and ability to prototype, create and refine effects that support and communicate gameplay.
• Technical aptitude and high level of comfort working with complex, node-based systems, scripts and tools.
• Expert level proficiency with Maya, Substance, Photoshop and/or equivalent 3D and 2D software.
• Enjoy creative problem-solving and building something new and innovative.
• Value building and being part of an inclusive and positive team culture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Unreal 5 and Niagara in a production environment preferred.
• Proficiency with Houdini and/or other VFX simulation tools a plus.

Education

• A Bachelor’s degree in Art and/or Design or equivalent combination of education and experience.