Senior VFX Artist

Description

BioWare (www.bioware.com), a member of the incredible family of EA studios, has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the award-winning Baldur's Gate, the Neverwinter Nights series, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Original BioWare-created IPs include Jade Empire, the critically acclaimed Mass Effect franchise, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood for the Nintendo DS and epic fantasy RPG Dragon Age franchise. BioWare is hard at work on Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic, our massively multiplayer online game being developed at BioWare Austin.

BioWare’s games have continually achieved critical and commercial success. All of our published titles are highly rated at www.gamerankings.com; in fact we have 6 games in the top 1% highest rated games of all time! Today BioWare has over 800 staff at its locations and continues to grow.
BioWare is seeking exceptional candidates for a Senior FX artist position in our Edmonton-based studio. We feel that the quality and scale of our products require a unique artistic sensibility; one that seeks excellence in their artistic endeavors, but also one that understands the technical challenges of today’s games industry.

BioWare specializes in emotionally engaging story telling; we want the player to be transported and captivated! The kind of FX artist that will excel and flourish in our studio will understand the importance of artistic expression and technical boundaries. Our FX artists create explosions, spells, atmosphere and creature effects to flesh out and define the actors and environments in our award-winning story-driven games.

Creative, technical, timing and compositing skills will be an asset for this position, but most of all you will have a passion and drive for creating work that pushes the boundaries of current game design!