# VFX Artist | Artiste en effets visuels - GameSim - Talent Pipeline **Company**: Keywords Studios **Location**: Quebec, QC **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full-time **Salary**: $65,000 CAD to $70,000 CAD **Category**: Game Development **Industry**: Game Development **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679 **Apply**: https://jobs.workable.com/view/58cQ38Va4TVx8c9ieWHAU5/remote-vfx-artist-%7C-artiste-en-effets-visuels---gamesim---talent-pipeline-in-quebec-at-keywords-studios?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_24a1f03d-f04 ## Description GameSim, a game development studio, is seeking a VFX Artist with strong real-time effects skills and solid technical judgment. The ideal candidate will have the potential to grow into broader lead responsibilities over time. The role involves creating high-quality visual effects while helping teams stay aligned, organized, and efficient. The successful candidate will contribute directly to hands-on VFX production, in-engine implementation, feedback, task breakdowns, optimization, workflow documentation, and cross-discipline collaboration. Responsibilities: - Create custom real-time visual effects and implement them in-engine using Unreal Engine 5, Unity, or proprietary tools. - Build high-quality effects for gameplay, environments, cinematics, atmosphere, combat, interaction, destruction, UI/game feedback, and other project needs. - Create all necessary textures, flipbooks, materials, meshes, simulations, and supporting assets for real-time VFX. - Maintain clean, readable, well-structured material graphs, Niagara systems, parameters, naming conventions, and reusable effect setups. - Use tools such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, Blender, Houdini, Maya, EmberGen, or other software as needed to support effect creation. - Work with complex material setups, Blueprints, scripting hooks, animation events, gameplay triggers, or engine-specific implementation needs. - Troubleshoot VFX issues in partnership with Technical Art, Engineering, Design, Animation, Audio, and other disciplines. - Own VFX optimization fundamentals, including particle counts, overdraw, shader cost, texture memory, spawn rates, scalability settings, and platform performance constraints. - Help ensure effects are readable, performant, and aligned with gameplay needs, art direction, timing, mood, and player feedback. - Review work from internal artists, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback. - Help maintain a consistent quality bar across a set of effects, a feature, a level, or a small team pod. - Support short-term planning by helping break down VFX requests into clear tasks, priorities, dependencies, risks, and definitions of done. - Proactively identify production risks, including missing gameplay hooks, performance spikes, unclear direction, pipeline gaps, dependency issues, or inconsistent style execution. - Collaborate closely with Designers, Concept Artists, Art Directors, Technical Artists, Engineers, Animators, Audio Designers, and Producers. - Support client-facing communication when needed by clarifying requirements, sharing WIP, explaining constraints, and aligning on expected outcomes. - Contribute to VFX workflow improvements, reusable templates, documentation, libraries, naming standards, or scalability rules when appropriate. Requirements: - 5+ years of professional game industry experience as a real-time VFX Artist or similar role. - At least one shipped game title. - Proven end-to-end real-time VFX workflow experience, from concept and asset creation through in-engine implementation and polish. - Strong experience implementing effects in Unreal Engine 4 or 5, with strong working knowledge of Niagara. - Strong particle animation fundamentals, including timing, rhythm, shape language, motion, impact, anticipation, dissipation, and readability. - Strong understanding of natural energies and materials such as fire, smoke, water, electricity, magic, dust, debris, explosions, atmospherics, and environmental effects. - Strong material and texture creation skills using tools such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, or similar software. - Ability to create clean, readable, and well-constructed material graphs and VFX systems. - Demonstrated understanding of real-time VFX optimization, including particle counts, overdraw, memory usage, material cost, scalability, and performance constraints. - Ability to balance visual impact, gameplay clarity, technical cost, and production schedule. - Strong communication skills, including clear written updates, verbal communication, documentation, and actionable feedback. - Ability to interpret vague creative, design, or client direction and turn it into clear VFX tasks or implementation plans. - Experience mentoring, reviewing, or guiding other artists. Nice to Have: - Proficiency with common production tools such as Perforce, Jira, Miro, and Confluence. - Houdini experience. - EmberGen experience. - Unity experience. - Substance Designer experience. - Experience with proprietary engines or custom VFX tools. - Scripting or coding skills, such as C#, Python, Blueprint, or similar. - 2D animation or traditional animation experience. - 3D animation, simulation, or procedural content creation experience. - Experience creating both stylized and realistic effects. - Experience with foliage, atmospherics, environmental effects, weather, destruction, or ambient world VFX. - Experience working with outsourcing, co-development teams, partner studios, or external vendors. - Experience collaborating with teams across different countries, cultures, and time zones. - Experience establishing VFX standards, templates, naming conventions, libraries, scalability rules, or pipeline documentation. - Experience supporting client reviews, milestone deliveries, or cross-studio feedback loops. - Experience leading a small pod, strike team, feature group, or informal group of artists. Portfolio Requirements: - Real-time VFX assets with strong readability, timing, shape language, and clearly understandable visual elements. - At least one example shown in a real-time gameplay context, preferably a video of the effect happening in-game or during interactive gameplay. - Examples of strong material definition and texture work, with clean, readable, well-constructed setups. - Effects that demonstrate fundamentals such as composition, mood, color choices, timing, motion, impact, readability, and understanding of natural energies. - Examples of effects implemented in-engine, preferably in Unreal Engine 4 or 5 / Niagara. - Breakdowns showing your process, including textures, materials, emitters, timing, implementation, optimization, or technical setup where applicable. - Clear explanations of what you personally created, especially for any team-created work. This position is currently open to candidates residing in the following Canada Provinces: Ontario, Quebec, or British Columbia. Salary Range: $65,000 CAD to $70,000 CAD What's in it for you? - Opportunity to work on different projects - 3 weeks of paid leave - Benefits package including medical, dental and vision - Sick Leave - Disability Coverage - Corporate holidays - Professional Development ## Skills ### Required - Unreal Engine 4 or 5 - Niagara - Photoshop - Substance Designer - particle animation - material and texture creation - real-time VFX optimization ### Nice to have - Houdini - EmberGen - Unity - C# - Python - Blueprint - 2D animation - 3D animation - procedural content creation --- Source: [Apply at jobs.workable.com](https://jobs.workable.com/view/58cQ38Va4TVx8c9ieWHAU5/remote-vfx-artist-%7C-artiste-en-effets-visuels---gamesim---talent-pipeline-in-quebec-at-keywords-studios?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)