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At Coal Car Studio, we’re pushing the boundaries of virtual reality, bringing our unique visions to life in immersive worlds. Located in scenic Vancouver, we are looking for a versatile and experienced Senior Artist to join our creative force. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are passionate about crafting stunning visual experiences, we want you on our team.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Artist, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and enhancing our art pipeline. This position is perfect for a generalist looking to impact every aspect of our artistic process, from modeling and texturing to rigging, animating, and creating captivating VFX particle systems. You will also mentor junior artists, helping them refine their skills and foster their professional growth.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Preferred:
Our Games:
Founded by two brothers, Coal Car Studio believes that games are more than just solo experiences. We're focused on creating social virtual reality experiences that can be enjoyed with friends and family. By embracing innovative technologies and creative gameplay, we aim to make VR more inclusive and bring the joy of shared gaming experiences back into the spotlight.
Location:
This role offers flexible work arrangements, with a preference for candidates in the Vancouver area. Remote candidates in similar time zones may also be considered.
Compensation:
We offer a competitive salary ($75,000 - $100,000), 3 weeks vacation + winter holiday closure, competitive group benefits.
How to Apply:
Send us an email with your resume, cover letter, and a link to your portfolio showcasing your best work. We’re excited to see what you bring to our world!
Coal Car Studio is an award-winning Vancouver-based team passionate about immersive technology and pioneering new ways to play together. Having worked in the XR industry since 2015, we believe this technology is the future. We design and develop a mix of games, educational and enterprise experiences, and brand activations, but our passion is gaming. The more social, the better.
While based in Vancouver, we support a hybrid work environment with team members distributed around the globe. We are an equal opportunity employer with a diverse, talented team. We pride ourselves on having an open, honest, and supportive culture that puts our team’s wellbeing above all.
We are looking for smart, creative individuals to help craft immersive experiences and make the world a better place.
Fruit Golf is an asymmetrical virtual reality (VR) game where golf balls are replaced by fruit and your friends rain terror down on the course as you putt. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to whack a watermelon, pineapple, or star fruit with a golf club? Well, Fruit Golf can’t promise the most realistic physics, but each fruit has its own unique way of sliding, bouncing, wobbling, and rolling down the course.
VR can be a very isolating experience – now it doesn’t have to be. Fruit Golf brings the zany course out of the headset and into your friends’ hands where they can directly manipulate the world around you through a free companion app. The golfer will try to navigate courses such as pirate ships besieged by a Kraken, the castle of the vampiric blood orange, or the solar system where all the planets are fruit, and the moon is a banana. In the meanwhile, the players outside VR will coordinate their assault to make it as difficult as possible for the golfer to reach the hole. Some obstacles are simple blockades, others explode launching the fruit out of bounds, while others require teamwork. Take for instance the simple windup mouse, all alone it will simply patrol a section of the course, but if a fellow saboteur drops a piece of cheese, not even a wayward pineapple can stop the mouse from reaching its prize.
Solo players will also be able to play all the courses with or without obstacles, as well as hone their skills in a variety of challenge levels. The challenge levels will force the player to take a break from the frenetic never stopping action of the multiplayer mode and focus on making the perfect shot and solve the puzzle of each challenge course tailored to quirks of every fruit. Given all this, Fruit Golf is a whole fruit basket worth of fun!
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