Locations: New York, NY, Vancouver, BC, or Remote - Canada (Eastern Time or Central Time)
Employment Type: Full-Time Contract
About Pahdo Labs
We are a gaming startup building an anime-inspired creative RPG, mixing our favorite aspects of fighting games, role-playing games, and game making tools into one seamless social experience. We have raised over $17.5M in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Pear VC, BoxGroup, Neo, Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz, and Cyan Banister.
We are seeing an explosion of interest in anime in the west: Jujutsu Kaisen, Genshin Impact, and collaborations in League of Legends/Fortnite are early indicators of a greater trend. As anime fans ourselves, we are incredibly excited to be building a 3D isometric action RPG with an anime-inspired theme, where players can create their levels and game modes in our multiplayer world.
The Role
As a Lead VFX Artist for Pahdo Labs, you will:
- Work closely with art, tech art, and engineering teams to help turn our vision of a fast-paced, anime-inspired action RPG into a reality
- Implement stylized 3D VFX in-engine for prototyping, with aesthetics and performance in mind
- Leverage your expertise and past experience to lay the foundation for a scalable VFX pipeline for production down the line
- Finish your mission and tasks with autonomy, occasionally taking on the role of a project lead or producer if necessary
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in art, tech art, or 3D VFX roles
- Familiarity or willingness to work in Godot Engine
- Expertise in the prototyping process and building beautiful and performant VFX/shaders using maps
- Some familiarity with shader programming
- Be comfortable working in the game engine everyday and making direct changes to the build in an iterative and collaborative fashion
- Some familiarity with modern scripting languages like Python
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
- Love of games, including ARPGs like Hades and Lost Ark, or games in the sandbox/sim genres
- Love for anime and stylized cel-shaded 3D and 2D art styles, and past experience working on projects with kind of look
Our Perks:
- Flexible work culture
- Annualized salaries based on contractor rates:
- New York, NY:
- $110,000-$140,000
- Remote - Continental US (Non-NYC)
- $90,000-$120,000
- Vancouver, BC:
- CAD$110,000-$140,000
- Remote - Canada (Non-Vancouver)
- CAD$100,000-$130,000
If interested, please email us at hello@pahdolabs.com with a resume, and links to any portfolios that you can share!