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