VFX Artist

Beschreibung:

Craft:Art

Job Description:
As a VFX Artist in Candy Crush Soda Saga, you will help shape the feel, energy, and moment-to-moment delight of one of mobile gaming's most loved player experiences. You'll design and create polished visual effects that make gameplay feel dynamic, rewarding, and clear, while keeping everything stylistically consistent with Soda's distinctive look and feel. Working as part of Soda's Art Hub, you'll collaborate with specialized artists and partner closely with designers and other developers to create effects that support gameplay readability, accessible player experiences, and overall user experience across the game. This is a great opportunity for a VFX artist with strong craft skills who enjoys owning their work, contributing ideas, and creating polished in-game effects with a high degree of independence.

King's second largest game, Candy Crush Soda Saga, is loved by millions of players worldwide, matching Swedish fish, rescued Soda gummy bears, and popped soda bottles to win points, defeat obstacles and progress through more than 11,000 levels. We're an iconic team growing a sweeter future for one of the biggest casual mobile IPs in the world through attracting the world's best talent. Our ambition is to continue crushing it for our players when it comes to creativity, product, and technology!

Your Role Within the Kingdom

* Design and create visual effects for Candy Crush Soda Saga that make the game feel exciting, responsive, and rewarding for players.
* Create polished VFX across a wide variety of tasks from the team backlog, supporting the full game and helping maintain a consistent visual style.
* Work as part of an Art Hub with a creative team of specialized artists, collaborating closely and supporting teammates across art and other crafts.
* Partner with designers and developer teams to build visual effects that support gameplay readability, accessible player experiences, and overall user experience.
* Use sound judgment to solve a wide range of creative challenges and deliver work with relatively little day-to-day direction, while sharing regular updates and collaborating on new assignments.
* Contribute to the implementation and optimization of effects for mobile, balancing visual quality with platform performance requirements.
* Help build and maintain organized VFX assets, libraries, and pipeline practices that support efficient development and long-term quality.
* Bring ideas from concept through pre-visualization to final in-game effect, using tools such as Photoshop, particle editors, 3D software, and After Effects or similar programs.

Skills to Create Thrills

Experience
* Experience as a VFX Artist in the games industry, ideally within casual and/or mobile games.
* Experience working closely with designers and cross-functional developer teams to create visual effects that support gameplay and player experience.
* Experience creating real-time VFX from concept to implementation, including optimizing for target hardware and maintaining quality within a live game environment.

Knowledge & Skills
* Demonstrated ability to conceptualize, create, and animate stylized VFX across different looks and gameplay needs.
* Good working knowledge of Photoshop, particle editors, 3D applications such as Maya or 3D Studio Max, and After Effects or similar tools for pre-visualization and effect creation.
* Solid knowledge of mobile performance, shaders, post-processing, environmental effects, simulations, lighting, dynamics, texture sprites, sprite sheets, and VFX asset pipeline organization.

Key Attributes
* A VFX artist who can work independently, use sound judgment, and collaborate effectively on moderately complex creative challenges.
* A collaborative teammate who communicates clearly, works well across disciplines, and shares regular progress updates while staying aligned on goals.
* Someone who brings original ideas, maintains high craft standards, and shares knowledge to support other artists on the team.

About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn and @lifeatking on Instagram