Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an accomplished CG Supervisor with experience delivering projects using Unreal Engine. The ideal candidate will have a strong, hands-on understanding of the full pipeline of content creation in UE, as well as proven experience leading a team of fellow Tech Artists, Animators, and Developers. 

A deep level of technical knowledge combined with strong creative and visual instincts is critical. You will be the go-to person for the implementation of complex content that requires heavy artist/designer/engineer coordination. You are a problem solver, collaborator, and communicator, and know how to adjust and prioritize throughout the creative process. You are aware of immediate and future technical and creative goals while maintaining an awareness of client expectations and show deadlines. 

You also keep up with the latest technical tools and best practices for developing content and inspiring others through knowledge sharing. 

Responsibilities:

• A leader in creating cutting-edge content in Unreal. You are expected to be well-versed in Sequencer, MRQ, and Blueprints, for linear content creation in Unreal.

• Work with technical and creative collaborators, overseeing the full content creation process from the generation of assets in DCCs, and their integration into Unreal, through to final rendering and editorial. 

• Partner with the VFX supervisor to ensure multidisciplinary success of projects, establishing cross-department workflows and methodologies that align with client expectations and needs

• Contribute to high-level bids, scheduling, and allocation of work. Provide recommendations regarding team resources to help manage cross-dependent work and ensure delivery in an efficient and timely manner.

• Partner in Evil Eye's technical community, collaborating with Systems and Pipeline to ensure the technical success of the studio by taking a forward-thinking approach to tool development and workflow optimization.

• Lead by example. Participate in recruiting, mentoring, reviews, and other HR-related department activities

Additional Requirements:

• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills, all with close attention to detail.

• Experience optimizing content through profiling and diagnostic tools. 

• Ability to interface and work with exacting clients. You will fill in as the key liaison for projects when the VFX supervisor is unavailable.

Good to Have (Not essential to the role but would help differentiate candidates):

• Comfortable in a range of content creation software including Photoshop, Substance Designer/Painter, Zbrush/Mudbox, etc.

• Maya modeling and rigging experience.

• Houdini / Embergen / Niagara FX experience.

• Scripting & programming skills with Python, and C++.

• Shader programming experience using HLSL.

Please include a link to a reel of your work when applying for this position.

This is a full-time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $140,000 - $170,000

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an experienced Unreal Lighting Artist. The ideal candidate will have minimum 5 years of professional experience in film, television and/or AAA games, with at least 2 years experience working with Unreal. The candidates should thoroughly understand visual effects and/or games pipelines. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and design lighting for complex scenes in Unreal Engine, owning both the technical and creative problem spaces

• Work closely with directors and supervisors to develop cinematic lighting solutions, which capture the vision laid out by the client 

• Translate 2D concepts into final lighting solutions and renders

• Look development of assets, environments, and FX elements

• Identify problematic shots and offer creative or technical solutions

• Oversee and help optimize shots for rendering

• Communicate with team members in all departments 

Requirements:

• Experience with Unreal Engine lighting techniques and solutions 

• Proven track record with photoreal and full CG lighting for film, television and/or games

• Knowledge of a variety of lighting techniques and tools in Unreal (Lumen, Raytracing, Megalights, Nanite, Materials)

• Detail-oriented both in work processes and ability to QC work

• Understanding of optimization and performance profiling

• Willingness to take direction and adapt to change in a fast-paced environment

• Ability to problem solve and propose workarounds for creative and technical challenges

• Time management skills; working to production schedules and communicating blockers to department leads and production.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Maya, Houdini, Blender, Nuke or equivalent DCC

• Knowledge of blueprints and automating workflows in Unreal 

• Experience in compositing and paint

• Knowledge of an asset manager such as Shotgrid

Please include a link to a reel of your work when applying for this position.

This is a full-time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.
This position requires working west coast (PST) hours with a start date in January 2025.

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $75k - $130k

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for a skilled Technical Artist to join our team, specializing in creating high-quality, detailed visual effects and assets for in-game and cinematic content. In this role, you will push the boundaries of grounded real-time VFX, driving the dynamic nature of our content through stunning effects, and immersive environments. As a top-level individual contributor, you will focus solely on content creation, while working directly with our CG Supervisor.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce photorealistic, performant, real-time visuals using Unreal Engine

• Experience creating Blueprints / Utility Widgets in Unreal Editor

• Ensure VFX assets are optimized for performance and within memory budgets

• Collaborate with CG Supervisor to support artistic and gameplay requirements for all content across gameplay and cinematics

• Modeling and texturing using DCCs like Maya, Substance, Blender

• Static and dynamic material creation in Unreal with blueprint interoperability

• Ability to creatively solve problems and implement solutions

• Research and implement new workflows, while contributing to technical documentation

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of working experience on a 5+ person team working with Unreal Engine in a professional environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proven experience creating realistic and compelling content for games/film

• Experience creating unreal blueprint systems from scratch

• Knowledge of modeling, shading, blend shapes, and animation workflows

• Good understanding of Unreal Shading Graph, HLSL, and Blueprinting in Unreal Editor

• Working knowledge of real-time budgets and optimization with a general understanding of:

  • Draw calls

  • Overdraw

  • Instruction Count

  • LODs / Mipping

• Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development

Good to have: 

• Experience working with Houdini / Embergen / ImageMagick / OIIO

• Comfort with Linear Algebra

• Programming experience in either Python, Mel,  or C++

• Experience creating motion graphics is a huge plus

• Experience with MetaHuman or other high fidelity CG humans

This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $100k - $140k

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an accomplished Character TD for an innovative project featuring high fidelity humans in Unreal Engine 5. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years professional experience in film, television and/or games, and a thorough understanding of animation pipelines and content creation in Unreal. A high level of technical knowledge combined with strong creative and visual instincts is critical.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with digital scan data (reduction, retopo, etc)

• Create stylized and realistic rigs with proper deformation and weighting

• Create character assets including control rigs in Unreal Editor

• Create character blend shape and character corrective shape assets

• Author animation blueprints in Unreal Editor

• Create range of motion assets for testing character rigs

• Create bespoke character models

• Collaborate closely with engineers, designing and implementing tools / workflows in Unreal Engine

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of working experience on a 5+ person team working with Unreal Engine in a professional environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience communicating with vendors and clients

• Proven experience creating realistic and compelling characters for games / film

• Experience with both forward and reverse kinematics rigging

• Expertise using DCCs such as Maya or Blender for character creation

• Experience creating custom tools for both Unreal Editor and DCC packages

• Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development

• Flexibility to explore other tasks such as cloth simulation and physics, UI design and implementation, etc.

Good to have: 

• Experience with Marvelous Designer or some other form of clothing creation tool

• Experience with Python, Mel, or C++ is a plus

• Understanding of PBR rendering and texture creation

• Knowledge of procedural modeling and rigging using Houdini, Blender, etc.

• Experience with MetaHuman or other high fidelity CG humans

• Experience using Substance:

  • Painter 

  • Designer

  • Modeler

This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $100k - $140k

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an Unreal programmer to work on multiple innovative projects, from distributed motion capture to broadcast sports. The ideal candidate will be a generalist, capable of contributing to many areas of the project. The candidate is not required to be a magical expert in all systems Unreal Engine has to offer, knows what they don’t know, and is enthusiastic to expand their expertise as necessary.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing realtime interaction systems, and developer tools in Unreal Engine 5

• Collaborating with designers and artists, translating design ideas into functional code

• Producing prototypes of ideas and features, and iterating on them

• Troubleshooting and fixing bugs

What we’re looking for:

• Strong programming skills and software engineering principles

• Utilitarian understanding of 3D math as it applies to computer graphics

• 5+ years of experience with Unreal Engine in a professional environment

• Shipped at least 1 title utilizing Unreal Engine, in a technology role

• Team-player with excellent communication and collaborative problem solving skills

  • Documenting work using screenshots, video walkthroughs, etc

  • Implementing technical work and handing off to an artist / TD successfully

  • Speak directly to users to uncover their needs and address their feedback 

  • Good working knowledge of Perforce and overall source control best practices

• Programming for Unreal Engine using Blueprints and C++

  • Custom blueprint nodes, plugins, editor tools / utility widgets

  • Debugging C++ using Visual Studio

• Passionate about / always seeking knowledge about:

  • Blueprinting sustainably

  • Researching and leveraging existing engine systems

  • Good encapsulation when designing systems

• Curiosity and demonstrated ability to gain deeper knowledge of Engine features as needed

• Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development

Good to have: 

• Familiarity with motion capture, character rigging, and inverse kinematics

• Experience with MetaHuman or other high fidelity CG humans

• Experience incorporating third party web APIs into Unreal

• Experience with multithreaded code (eg TaskGraph) in Unreal Engine 

• Familiarity profiling Unreal scenes (eg are we CPU or GPU bound? Identifying hotspots)

• Python scripting with DCC (eg Maya) packages

• Python scripting for build and test pipelines

This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $140k - $180k

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for a full-time programmer to contribute to the crucial tooling and pipeline systems needed for a new innovative project in Unreal Engine 5. The ideal candidate has some experience with blueprinting in Unreal Engine, can create custom blueprint nodes in C++,  and is proficient in writing python scripts to automate repetitive and error-prone tasks.

This position is an excellent opportunity to learn how a new innovative Unreal project is created from the ground up, with opportunities to collaborate with many talented senior artists, TDs, and programmers. With the candidate’s enthusiastic collaboration, we aim to provide an environment for creating a broad foundational understanding of the realtime pipeline and workflow in Unreal Engine.

Key Responsibilities:

• Excellent troubleshooting skills

  • First line of support for issues found by non-technical staff

  • Help triage issues and test fixes

  • Help design and implement tests to catch future issues

• Create custom tools for Unreal Engine to support needs of artists and TDs

• Maintain & monitor automated build system for Unreal projects

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years working experience in Unreal Editor

• Good understanding of C++ and Python

• Excellent communication skills

  • Keep notes of what could be better

  • Create & improve documentation

  • Share knowledge within the team to improve our productivity

• Working knowledge of the Unreal build systems

  • Building editor from source

  • Creating packaged builds

• Working knowledge of Perforce

• Experience with rapid prototyping and iterative development

Good to have: 

• Experience creating Utility Blueprints / Widgets in Unreal Editor

• Experience debugging Unreal Engine using Visual Studio

• Experience inspecting crash and profiling reports

• Experience with automated build and test systems

• Experience writing python scripts for DCCs like Maya, Blender, etc

• Working knowledge of git / GitHub

• Desire to improve quality of life for fellow developers and teammates

This is a full time position. This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $130k - $170k

Evil Eye Pictures is looking for an Associate Unreal TD. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting teams and delivering projects in games, film, TV, or virtual production. A thorough understanding of visual effects workflows is a must. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist artists, leads, and supervisors with rendering linear content for game cinematics from Unreal Engine

• Flag technical hurdles that prohibit the on-time delivery of work, suggesting creative and technical fixes including performance optimization or alternative work methodologies

• Be an early adopter of new versions of Unreal Engine; testing features, vetting stability, and making recommendations for the wider team

• Collaborate with tech art and pipeline in the creation of processes and tools related to the rendering of Unreal content

• Oversight and monitoring of Deadline render queue and render farm machines; collaborating with pipeline and IT to troubleshoot and debug issues 

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Unreal Engine including an understanding of Sequencer, Blueprints, Movie Render Queue/Movie Render Graph, Lumen, and console variables

• Thorough understanding of visual effects pipelines and techniques

• Experience working with Deadline or similar render queue software

• Detail-oriented both in work processes and ability to QC work

• Understanding of optimization and performance profiling

• Excellent ability to improvise and problem-solve

• Ability to work independently, as well as take direction in a fast-paced environment

• Knowledge of procedural workflows for efficiencies in linear content creation

 Good to Have:

• Experience with Maya, Houdini, Blender or equivalent DCC is a plus

• Knowledge of an asset manager such as Shotgrid is a plus

• Computer science or programming background

This is a full-time position.  This position is remote as we support a Virtual Studio.

For more information about Evil Eye check out:

https://www.evileyepictures.com


The studio operates on West Coast hours, this role may have a slight offset to accommodate production schedules.

CA Pay Transparency Information:

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Evil Eye's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).

Base Pay Range $50k - $90k