VFX Artist - RuneScape: Dragonwilds in Cambridge

Location: Cambridge, UK – (Remote available within the UK with team onsite days in the Cambridge office approx. 4 times per year). This role is a Fixed Term Contract anticipated to end mid-late 2027.

What you’ll be doing:

• Create fantasy style visual effects including explosions, magic, weather, environment effects, UI effects, and character abilities.
• Develop and evolve the VFX style so that it fits the world and makes the game as attractive and exciting as possible.
• Collaborate closely with the wider team to ensure clarity, readability, and gameplay feedback through VFX.
• Work with the Art Director, TA Lead and VFX team to ensure effects match the style, tone, and technical constraints of the project.
• Implement real time gameplay and cinematic VFX, with an optimized from the start approach.
• Collaborate with Animators and Technical Artists to ensure smooth blending between animations, VFX timing, and character actions.
• Collaborate with Environment Artists to maximize mood, appeal and sense of life and movement in all environments in the game.
• Work with a high regard to implementation and performance costs and an active approach to profiling.
• Work within and establish a clean VFX pipeline.
• Contribute creative ideas to improve the visual effects pipeline and overall presentation.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues related to VFX behaviour, rendering, lighting, or integration.
• Maintain clear documentation of VFX workflows, naming conventions, and implementation guidelines.
• Provide feedback and occasional mentoring to junior VFX artists.

What we’re looking for:

• 2–4+ years of experience as a VFX Artist in the games industry, in an Unreal-Engine real-time environment.
• Strong artistic fundamentals: colour theory, motion, timing, composition, shape language, and visual storytelling.
• Ability to take direction, give constructive feedback, and work independently when needed.
• Experience creating shaders and materials for VFX.
• Experience implementing VFX using blueprints.
• A curated reel showcasing: Gameplay effects (e.g., combat, abilities, impacts), Environmental or atmospheric effects (fog, rain, fire, smoke, leaves, dust), Use of shaders / materials created for VFX, Examples of in-engine implementation, Breakdown notes explaining your role, tools used, and any procedural workflows.