Your Mission

Infinity Ward is currently seeking a Visual Effects Artist (Temporary) for an exciting unannounced project.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Design and simulate high quality, photo-real effects (fire, smoke, explosions, debris, clouds, etc.) that meet all technical and aesthetic standards for the project
• Render realistic textures and assemble into texture atlases to be used by our proprietary Particle Editor
• Prepare assets for simulation by fracturing and modeling
• Perform rigid body and soft body simulations
• Composite live action shoot elements
• Work closely with VFX Artists and Game Designers to ensure all effects will work smoothly within the pipeline
• Produce look tests based on provided reference materials
• Take direction from Supervisors as well as provide guidance and mentorship to other FX Artists
• Use our in-house particle editor to author particle effects and implement them into our game engine
• Raise the bar for what's possible in a game engine
• Work within production deadlines to complete all tasks
• Ensure industry leading quality and artistic fidelity

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• A strong eye for timing, weight, realism, color, volume, energy, and other particle aesthetics
• Ability to create realistic explosions, demolition, destruction
• Experience with VFX software – 3ds Max, Maya, Houdini, etc.
• Strong modeling and animation experience
• Basic compositing knowledge (After Effects, Nuke, Fusion)
• 2+ years production experience in video games, TV Shows, commercials, or films
• Ability to script a plus (Max Script, Python)
• Strong technical and communication skills
• Ability to adapt quickly to proprietary tools
• Self-motivated
• A passion for video games