Visual Effects (VFX) Artist
Company: Leidos
Location: Reston
Posted on: June 19, 2022
Job Description:
DescriptionJob Description:Leidos is in search of an experienced
VFX Artist to join our studio with an existing team of artists,
programmers, and designers in creating "cutting edge" Virtual
Reality (VR) and PC advanced training for the United States Air
Force. Our client is a visionary leader that is bringing VR and
digital training to the forefront of Air Force technical and
specialty training for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance
(ISR) analyst and operators around the world. This is a unique
opportunity to leverage your proven AAA industry experience to
create stunning photorealistic digital art for the U.S. Air
Force.As a VFX Artist, you will create real-time visual effects for
a wide variety of virtual training needs. You will support a
digital art team focused on photorealistic environments and
characters for both PC and VR. This is a unique opportunity where
your knowledge and expertise will enhance our team's capabilities
each day while also serving as a subject matter expert in
techniques, methods, and best practices pioneered by Epic Games and
the Unreal Engine. We are looking for your creativity, experience,
and positive energy to create the Defense industries most immersive
and comprehensive virtual training. Projects include building
"digital twins" of military aircraft, vehicles, military hardware
and replicating physical environments.Responsibilities:
- Creation of real-time visual effects for a wide variety of
virtual training needs. Examples include: Aircraft/Vehicle/Ship
Emergency Procedures (fire, smoke, electricity, debris, water/ocean
impacts), Environmental (water, rain, snow, ice, frost, clouds,
wind, dust, heat, steam), Characters (cloth, hair, sweat, blood),
UI interactions and more.
- Technical setup, integration, and performance optimization of
VFX assets within Unreal Engine.Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience as a VFX artist in games, films,
visualization or related industries.
- Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of equivalent industry experience
and training with no degree.
- Provide online portfolio showing a wide variety of realistic,
high quality real-time VFX work.
- Ability to create all source art needed for VFX (textures,
geometry, flipbooks, normal maps, vector field textures, etc.)
- Experience with industry standard techniques and tools for
creating VFX animation (particle systems, physics and fluid
simulations, etc.)
- Extensive knowledge of industry standard software such as Maya,
Houdini, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.
- A critical eye for the timing, weight, balance and motion of
realistic visual effects assets
- Credit as a VFX Artist on at least one shipped product using
Unreal Engine.
- Able to take direction and implement feedback.
- Experience working in an iterative, agile environment.
- Good communication, organizational, time management and
interpersonal skills.
- Motivated, self-directed, personable with strong verbal
communication skills.
- Experience using Perforce for source control and JIRA for task
management.
- Strong work ethic that strives for continuous process
improvement and production efficiency.
- Ability to obtain security clearance (requires US
citizenship).
- Ability to work in a dynamic cross-functional environment in a
100% teleworking environment.Preferred:
- We are looking for multi-talented artists (generalists) who are
comfortable shifting skillsets as project priorities change.
Additional skills in 3D Modeling, PBR Texturing, Materials,
Animation, Rigging, or Lighting are a huge plus.Pay Range:Pay Range
$57,850.00 - $89,000.00 - $120,150.00The Leidos pay range for this
job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of
compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending
an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the
job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as
well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable
bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.#Remote
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