Houdini VFX Artist

QUARTOMUNDO © aims to deliver meaningful experiences to the gaming community by working at the intersection of Art and Technology.

We push ourselves to the limit to build an environment where our professionals feel encouraged to combine the best content with the neatest code solutions to immerse and delight players.

A place where we spend most of our daily hours must be enjoyable, so we prefer to work smarter than harder and always choose fun as a way to be creative and productive.

Last, we believe in cooperation instead of competition, sharing instead of hoarding, and long relationships.

Besides developing our own games, like "The Light of the Darkness", a metroidvania based on our namesake IP (https://youtu.be/zs6UhQL2lFs) we provide a boutique Unreal gaming services focused in areas like VFX, realistic 3D art and gameplay programming.

What are you working on?

• The name of the project(s): The Light of the Darkness, Unreal Outsourcing for Triple-I and Triple-A Titles
• Genres: Action, Role-playing, Strategy, Shooter, Word Games, MMO
• Platforms: PC, Console

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

We are looking for a highly talented, and motivated person to work with us on technically challenging, aesthetically compelling, and prominent games.

As a VFX Artist, you’ll focus on designing and building the game effects using native Unreal Engine tools, as well as some external assets and plugins such as Ninja Fluid, Fluid Flux, Ultra Dynamic Sky, and others. You may also perform research in order to find innovative ways to create believable and striking effects audiences have never seen before.

Working with a cohesive game team, you will participate in designing features and content with creators from multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

Create compelling VFX on Unreal 4/5 for console and PC games. As is the case with the props and locations, VFX should be streamlined versions of reality. They should always be realized by observing real-life phenomena and then reproducing them with the highest fidelity possible but at a level of detail that matches the simplicity of our props and materials.

The kind of VFXs you will be doing

• Effects that can produce remarkably different visual outcomes from one iteration to another;

• Effects that linger for much longer than seen on average games;

• Effects that one can find hard to imagine imagine how we do it.

What kind of professional are we looking for?

• Mandatory

  • At least 2 years o Experience with Houdini and its integration with Unreal, procedural pipelines and simulations

  • Experience with Unreal Niagara particle simulation

  • Experience with Unreal Material Editor

  • Conversational English (ability to attend meeting, understand and communcate working related ideas)

• Bonus Points (desired, but not mandatory. Every additional item listed here contributes to raise the base salary)

  • Experience with 3D Modeling (Blender/Maya/Cinema4D)

  • Experience with PBR (Physical Based Rendering)

  • Quixel Mixer / Substance

What is important for us in a person?

• Self-learner

• Long-term commitment

• Willing to share and learn from others

• Good humour is really important as we want to have fun together

Why do we enjoy working here?

• Compensation above the average

• An incredible working environment that favours work-life balance

• Mentoring, training and constant and open knowledge transfer