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Senior Special Effects Artist

ArenaNet, makers of Guild Wars, is currently seeking an experienced, passionate Senior Special Effects Artist on location in Bellevue, Washington.

Responsibilities include:

  • Working as part of ArenaNet's Technical Art team, creating special effects, and developing sophisticated shader networks using our in-house content tools.
  • Helping to develop workflows for other aspects of art production that will interface with effects.
  • Working closely with engineers, contributing to and helping to guide the development of efficient and innovative in-house effects tools.
  • Designing and painting textures and flipbook sequences for particle effects.
  • Working closely with the Technical Art team and the development team as a whole to integrate effects into the game.

A strong candidate will have the following qualifications:

  • At least 3 years of industry experience, working in a collaborative team environment.
  • Experience creating particle effects and textures in a production environment.
  • Portfolio and reel that demonstrates strong artistic and technical abilities such as:
    • The ability to work comfortably in a range of artistic styles, for example, painterly and realistic.
    • A strong understanding of both realistic and stylized animation timing and motion related to sequencing special effects.
    • An understanding of next-gen shaders and their networking.
    • Proficiency in Maya, including modeling, texturing and UV layout with some experience in rigging and animation.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • A passion for games and the drive to make a truly unique and innovative gaming experience.

The ideal candidate will have all or most of the above and the following:

  • At least 5 years of experience
  • Ability to create clear and concise process documentation
  • A commitment to personal and peer development by seeking out and proactively sharing best practices.

Send resume and samples by email: jobs@arena.net

Or by snail mail:

227 Bellevue Way NE #75
Bellevue, WA 98004

Submitted materials will not be returned.
ArenaNet NCSoft