Compulsion Games is a first party game studio and subsidiary of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Studios, located in Montreal, Canada.

We are a boutique team of industry veterans, who trust and respect each other and love our craft. Our games have won praise for their art, music, world-building, and narrative. We are now working on our next project!

We like to take on troublesome themes. We try to make characters with compelling, human flaws. We mix darkness and comedy.

Job Description

The Senior VFX Artist will take part in the production of the games by creating, adapting or implementing all the essential VFX elements for the success of the game.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our various departments to understand the overall creative vision and establish visual effect priorities
• Create environment and cinematic effects using particle systems and textures you produce
• Partner with programmers to assess needs and develop tools
• Integrate your created VFX into the engine
• Debug and optimize effects based on playtest results and comments from our team

Qualifications

• Experience working in texturing, lighting, image processing, or related experience
• Knowledge of 2D tools (eg. Photoshop) and 3D software (eg. Maya, 3DS Max)
• Experience working with a game engine, in our case, Unreal
• Practical experience working on other VFX projects, ideally in video games

If that all sounds like you, then we would love you to come and work with us.