Unreal FX Artist

This is a hybrid position within the London team with 2 office days per week on average, you will need to be based in the UK and have the right to work here.

Framestore’s Immersive Studio is a world-leading innovator in crafting immersive experiences that transcend the screen, catapulting you into extraordinary realms of adventure. Combining our unrivalled creative craftsmanship with our technical prowess, we're dedicated to reframing expectations for both IP owners and their guests with creative technology, location-based entertainment, and mind-blowing theme park rides.

Framestore combines talent and technology to bring life to everything we create. Driven by creativity and inspired by the future, we set out every day to reframe the possible.

The Role

We are looking for an FX artist (mid-level) to join our London-based Immersive team, working on exciting Immersive projects bridging the gap between our VFX and realtime workflows. The ideal candidate would have a portfolio that can demonstrate being able to create FX for pre-rendered and performant realtime projects, with CG renditions of naturalistic physical or magical phenomena such as fire, water, clouds, smoke, physical destruction and particulate.

What you'll do:

• Work alongside a team of FX TDs and Technical Artists to supply the FX elements for the project

• Creating particle, rigid-body, fluid, cloth, fur and/or hair simulations or animations

• Develop lighting/materials that work with the FX to produce the final rendered image or runtime content

• Using a variety of commercial and proprietary FX tools including Houdini & Maya, for execution as realtime elements in Unreal Engine

• Working in partnership with other departments to ensure that shots are delivered to the highest possible standard

• Designing and creating images, elements, effects, pipelines, tools and techniques