VFX Artist

Square Panda is a startup headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA with additional offices located in India 

and China. We are in a research based Ed-Tech space, focusing on children's early literacy. We 

have 3000+ schools under our belt and are proud to cater the needs of English Language 

development of 70,000+ kids worldwide. Our multisensory neuroscience research-based phonics 

learning system comes equipped with educational games to teach children many essential skills. 

With a curriculum that has been specially adapted for Indian schools and children, we strive to 

empower beginner learners through phonics awareness.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain art production workflow/pipeline by writing scripts/tools to aid artists to create more efficiently
• Become embedded with external customer teams to develop games, tools and provide support
• Integrate assets into client’s applications without sacrificing artistic vision or exceeding technical limits of the platform
• Produce particles, shaders and other VFX for Unity applications(Unity 2019.4 LTS)
• Build close relationships with client engineers and with Unity's internal development teams
• Efficiently solve problems, communicate, and educate our clients, both remotely and on-site at their offices
• Proactively train yourself to remain at the forefront of Unity Engine technology

Requirements

• Excellent skills in:
  
  
  • Understanding of the technical art asset delivery for an entire game for real-time use.
  • Writing shaders for real-time rendering.
  • Unity Visual Effect Graph
  • Using Photoshop, Illustrator for Texture & sheet creation.
  • Shader Graph for unity 2019.4.2
  • Communication, in both spoken and written English
  • Self-organization and working independently
  • Collaboration and working in teams
• Enthusiasm for working with video games projects.
• Minimum experience 2+ years.
• Location - Mumbai

Bonus points

• A portfolio demonstrating your ability to make beautiful things in real-time
• Experience on 2D games
• Scripting skills in C#
• Comprehensive knowledge of rendering fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering
• Profiling and performance optimization of applications
• Experience using the Unity engine professionally
• Experience with technical writing, training or giving talks