VFX Artist

Job Description

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for experienced FX Artists to join our team working on Fortnite. A successful candidate should have a strong sense of dramatic effects and an understanding of how to recreate them in a real time particle editor. They will be first and foremost a team player, while also having the ability to be self-motivated and work autonomously.

If you have a strong sense of weight, timing, motion, and you demonstrate technical aptitude with materials and logic, we are ready for you to bring those abilities to execute outstanding FX in our games.

In this role, you will:

• Execute outstanding effects for our games by bringing dramatic effects to life.


• Ability to create all art needed for the visual effects, including FX concept, proto and final FX.


• Execute on a range of visual effects styles from realistic to stylized.

Skills & Requirements

What we're looking for:

• Must have a strong reel/portfolio showing executed Real-Time FX work.


• Critical eye for the timing, animation, and motion of real world objects and visual FX with an ability to bring dramatic FX to life with flair.


• Ability to create all art needed for the FX. Scripting experience in Blueprint a plus.


• Abilities in secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting.


• Shipped title(s) within the game industry.


• Familiarity with the Unreal 4/Unreal 5 Engine art pipeline.


• Experience working with multiple platforms and their respective memory and performance limitations.

How to Apply

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic:

Remote work environment.

About the Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates

, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops , which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.

Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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