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The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH is hiring: Senior VFX Artist- Disney Game

The Walt Disney Company (Germany) GmbH
Glendale, AZ Full Time
POSTED ON 3/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/16/2025

About the Role & Team

Disney Digital Entertainment, a division of Disney Experiences, is embarking on a mission to create the ‘digital front door’ for The Walt Disney Company, bringing all of the magic of Disney together into a new interactive universe.

We are building an expert development team that will be building a groundbreaking game experience that will herald the next generation of Disney to the world. Working with top-class industry talent, this role is perfect for the seasoned transformative Senior VFX Artist looking to create something epic - collaborating with an incredible group of game developers focusing on individual experiences to build a wonderfully rich and cohesive product that is truly “Disney”.

We are looking for a uniquely talented Senior VFX Artist to join us on a daring and exciting new project. If you are an imaginative creator with superb real-time visual effects skills, and have a love of Disney / Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel properties, you’ll want to check out this opportunity!

The Senior VFX Artist will report to the Director, Art.

This is a Full-Time role.

What You Will Do

  • Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to visualize incredible gameplay, magical powers, and amazing transformations based on Disney’s robust portfolio of characters and worlds including Disney / Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars.
  • Add life, movement, and color to our worlds through atmospherics, weather, and environmental effects created in Unreal 5, Niagara, and other tools.
  • Technically implement, integrate, troubleshoot, and ensure the visual fidelity and performance of VFX in-game.
  • Iterate on game assets with fellow artists via paint overs, studies, and group critiques.
  • Serve as a key member of a growing game development team at Disney.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 5 plus years of game development experience, including holding a position of VFX Artist for at least 3 years.
  • Portfolio demonstrating consistently excellent, eye-catching real-time VFX you’ve created for games.
  • Extensive understanding of 3D graphics, shaders, particle systems, physics, ribbons, etc.
  • Excellent sense of VFX movement, animation, timing, impact, and anticipation.
  • Ability to visualize effects with or without concept art, and the ability to create VFX textures, materials, and geometry from scratch, matching a broad range of styles.
  • Strong game design awareness and ability to prototype, create, and refine effects that support and communicate gameplay.
  • Technical aptitude and high level of comfort working with complex, node-based systems, scripts, and tools.
  • Expert level proficiency with Maya, Substance, Photoshop, and / or equivalent 3D and 2D software.
  • Enjoy creative problem-solving and building something new and innovative.
  • Value building and being part of an inclusive and positive team culture.
  • Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Unreal 5 and Niagara in a production environment preferred.
  • Proficiency with Houdini and / or other VFX simulation tools a plus.
  • Education

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Art and / or Design or equivalent combination of education and experience.
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