# VFX Artist - Agency Contract

**Company**: Playground Games
**Location**: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130744

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## Description

Playground Games is looking for a VFX Artist to work alongside their talented Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract.

As a VFX Artist, you will create high-quality effects, elevate the visuals of Forza Horizon, and deliver strong creative ideas while communicating and collaborating with the wider team.

You should have an appreciation of a broad range of art styles, and the ability to emulate this through artwork in real-time engine or offline rendering using your grasp of the principles of animation, dynamics and lighting.

Responsibilities:

- Create and implement exceptional, realistic real-time VFX that bring the world, gameplay and features to life

- Collaborate with Art, Design and Engineering teams to deliver memorable player experiences

- Push visual quality through technical problem solving and the exploration of new workflows and technologies

Requirements:

- Great understanding of art fundamentals with a strong interest in realistic visuals

- Experience with PopcornFX, Niagra or Houdini Particle simulations

- Experience in HLSL, GLSL, Python or similar

- Experience on shipped AAA game projects

- A genuine passion for games

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a world-class game while working alongside an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry's most exciting first-party game studios.

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## Skills

### Required
- PopcornFX
- Niagra
- Houdini Particle simulations
- HLSL
- GLSL
- Python
- AAA game projects

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