Hasta La Motion!

Hi there, we have a new job posting at IO interactive (the creator of Hitman, Mini Ninjas & Kane and Lynch)
We’re located in central Copenhagen on the waterfront. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is served monday to friday and the beer flows free on fridays, relocation is required. PM me for questions regarding IO or the position.

http://www.ioi.dk/recruitment/FXArtist/index.htm

SPECIAL FX ARTIST

IO Interactive is looking for a Special FX Artist for one of our exciting AAA projects. You will be part of a small graphics artist team that as a group has the opportunity of making the greatest and most innovative effects for our next AAA game.
As special FX artist you will work closely with level designers, animators and graphic artist making the design for special effects in the game. In collaboration with a producer you will be responsible for your own work including estimation, planning and meeting deadlines.

Job Responsibilities

* Create real-time particle effects in our in-house engine and tools. Areas of work will include: explosions, sparks, fire, blood, weapon, cloth & weather effects.
* Populate game levels and cut-scenes with effects in cooperation with level designers, art director and animators.
* Painting of particle and animated sprites in Photoshop.
* Creation and implementation of real-time physics setups.
* Create, simulate and implement destructible environments both baked and dynamic.
* Provide feedback and designs for further development of in-house FX tools.

Required Skills

* Fluent in 3ds Max and Photoshop.
* Must have technical understanding of games or computer applications.
* Basic understanding of physics and math.
* 2+ years of experience with Games or CG.

Extra Credit

* Movie or Games special effects experience.
* A strong passion for games.
* Modeling and texture skills are a plus.
* Experience with shader creation a plus.

If the above description fits your profile, please submit your application, résumé and colour portfolio to jobs@ioi.dk , marking it “Special FX Artist”.

IO Interactive is located in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Relocation to this area is a requirement. If you live in Sweden commuting is possible, the train from Malmö to Copenhagen only takes 36 minutes.

Hi,
I posted this message over on The Area, but in the past you guys have been way more helpful. 🙂 Anyway here’s the issue, I’m having problems with Normal Mapping. I export the high res mesh from Mudbox and a low res one as well, when I apply the normal maps to the mesh in MayaIi’m having some weird issues where there are like squares showing up in the image. I’m pretty sure this is something to do with the UV’s but it looks like they match perfectly and if it is a problem with them, I’m not sure how to fix it.
One of the images below is the original high poly model and the other is the result I get from normal mapping.

Thanks a lot for any help,
Greg

Edit: btw, I exported the normal map as 2048×2048 and high quality settings, but the quality doesn’t seam to be too great. any suggestions?

Edit: sorry one more problem. I may be missing something totally basic here, but when I try rendering out the model (the normal mapped one) its just blank. The high poly one renders fine, but the low poly isn’t showing up in the renders.

Thanks again

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