Sr. VFX Artist

Role overview

Sr. VFX Artist at Lakshya

We are seeking a Senior VFX Artist to help lead the creation of high-impact real-time effects.

In this role, you will create and implement VFX that bring Legends, weapons, and seasonal moments to life — reporting to the Lead VFX Artist and collaborating closely with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to raise the visual quality bar across the game.

We are looking for someone with a passion for visceral, intense combat and a deep understanding of how VFX can drive player intensity, readability, and emotional impact in a fight.

Requirements - 5+ years of professional experience as a real-time VFX artist in the games or film industry. - Strong portfolio of shipped in-game real-time VFX work; portfolio examples that showcase bombastic, gritty combat and VFX-driven player intensity are a strong plus. - Proficiency with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer, and experience implementing your own work within a game engine or proprietary toolset. - Experience mentoring, reviewing work, or helping guide other artists, with strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines. - Passion for making and playing games. - Experience creating VFX for visceral, intense combat games is a plus. - Experience with first-person games, sci-fi art direction, or live-service seasonal content is a plus. - Shipped AAA game credit is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement high-quality real-time VFX for abilities, weapons, seasonal content, and gameplay moments — with a focus on delivering effects that feel visceral, impactful, and true to the intensity of combat. - Help define and maintain the visual quality bar for VFX across seasonal updates, weapon releases, character abilities, and gameplay moments. - VFX problem-solving for complex content, including visual polish, performance constraints, and technical issues across the content pipeline. - Collaborate closely with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to develop effects that support gameplay, improve clarity, and strengthen the visual identity of Apex Legends. - Helping raise the quality and consistency of the team’s work. - Contribute to visual direction and help evolve real-time VFX language, supporting production planning to ensure work is scoped and delivered effectively.
• Benefits - We offer the opportunity to work on some of the best-known game titles in the world. - We offer competitive salaries and annual performance-based bonuses. - We offer generous paid time off.
• You get 26 Annual leaves and additional paid time off at the year-end (from 25th December to 1st January). - We cover Term Insurance and Personal accidental insurance for you. - Benefit from our free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental and emotional wellbeing. - You can also avail our Special Education Assistance Scheme to further develop your career. - … And a lot more!
• Role Information: EN Studio: Lakshya

Employment details

• Location: Asia Pacific, India, Area of Work: Art Services Service: Create
• Employment Type: Full Time Working Pattern: Onsite Apply Apply at Lakshya Digital --- Powered by Workable
• Location: Gurugram [Haryana] [India]

About the employer

• Sr. VFX Artist Lakshya Digital
• Setup in 2004, Lakshya has, over the last 20 years, created a reputation in the game development industry for being a highly talented and dependable game art studio.
• Lakshya’s senior team, which comprises of top-notch International and Indian talent, has a huge amount of experience of creating art for different game platforms and genres.
• Lakshya works closely with NASSCOM to help in the growth of the game development eco-system in India.

Additional role details

• Gurugram, India
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• Posted 2026-09-09 Workplace: on site Department: Lakshya India Description Lakshya, a Keywords Studios company, in India is headquartered in Gurgaon and has a team of over 700 employees spread across studio facilities in Gurgaon, Pune and Seattle, and sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo.
• During this time, Lakshya has created art for over a hundred game titles, including hugely successful global hits such as Bloodborne, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, WWE 2K16, Uncharted 2, Farmville and Cityville.
• Lakshya blends artistic creativity with strong process orientation in order to deliver best in class services.
• For more info, please refer to https://lakshyadigital.com/