• Creates high-quality environment art with a strong emphasis on lighting, mood, and atmosphere. • Builds, iterates, and optimizes lighting setups that support gameplay, narrative, and artistic direction. • Collaborates closely with art direction, level design, and tech art to ensure lighting enhances spatial readability and performance. • Authors and maintains lighting passes, post-processing profiles, and environment shaders/materials as needed. • Troubleshoots lighting issues related to performance, consistency, or technical constraints across platforms. • Contributes to visual benchmarks and helps establish best practices for lighting workflows.

• Work closely with animators, character artists, and gameplay engineers to ensure efficient workflows and high-fidelity animated content. • Translate the technical requirements of the animation team into actionable solutions for engineering and pipeline teams. • Diagnose and resolve complex animation-related issues including rig behavior, deformation quality, skeletal hierarchies, retargeting, and physics performance. • Design, build, and maintain modular, animator-friendly rigs for characters, creatures, props, facial animation, and mechanical assets. • Implement and refine physics-based systems including ragdoll setups, cloth simulation, spline dynamics, secondary motion, and procedural animation solutions. • Develop scalable animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees, and control rigs in Unreal or Unity. • Integrate motion capture data, build retargeting pipelines, and ensure consistent motion quality across diverse character sets. • Create and maintain tools, scripts, and automated pipelines that improve animation productivity and asset quality. • Build validation tools to enforce naming conventions, skeleton standards, rig integrity, and performance budgets. • Profile and optimise animation systems, rig performance, runtime solvers, and physics setups to work efficiently within hardware constraints. • Participate in cross-discipline R&D to establish best practices for real-time deformation, procedural animation, and advanced simulation workflows.

• Makes a significant and direct contribution to the creation of bespoke, original and industry leading VFX for AAA console. • Understands the value that VFX can add to all aspects of the player experience. • Creates set piece events, ambient and gameplay related VFX that give each product unique character. • Partner’s closely with the technical teams to deliver an efficient, stable, state of the art VFX pipeline and consistently strive for excellence that demonstrates work at the cutting edge. • Is a champion for VFX and constantly looks for opportunities where their work can enhance the game. • Pre-Visualise’s and prototype cutting edge VFX techniques. • Documents & communicates clear technical guidelines for VFX creation and real-time implementation to the team. • Maintains and communicates a strong knowledge of innovative game production technologies and the capabilities/limitations of these technologies as they relate to the project goals.