JOB DESCRIPTION:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented Senior FX Artist II to assist our Story and Franchise Development (SFD) team in creating the next generation of our award-winning cinematics.

EXPERIENCE

• 12+ years’ experience working in a professional Gaming/Animation/VFX company producing feature film quality effects in Houdini
• Extensive experience with particle systems, fluid dynamics, rigid body dynamics, and procedural systems

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• A good understanding of physical dynamics and natural phenomena as demonstrated by your portfolio
• Familiar with feature film level pipelines and their respective issues
• Proven track record creating effects such as smoke, fire, clouds, water, steam, explosions, magic, etc.
• A trained creative eye that is able to participate in conceptual and practical discussions about what is needed to achieve an effect – and what is important to communicate with it.
• Experience with node-based compositing software such as Nuke
• Experience with real-time VFX within a modern Game Engine (ex: Unreal, and Unity)
• Experience using PDG to execute caching and rendering processes

Please refer the Job description for details