Please come Join our team! UE4 VFX artist, and 3D Animator needed for FPS project; Serial Link.
Project overview:
Sofa ninja studios feat. The nobody collective is proud to bring to the world a new and cool take on the FPS RPG. Utilizing all the classic gameplay of retro first person shooter games.
Our game is a single player first person shooter with RPG elements. The gameplay will aim to emulate what has made great FPS games so good. Elements like interesting gun combat, unique & original worlds to explore, a gripping story, and of course, a great hook.
Combat will be at the core of our gameplay. Interesting weapons, smooth gunplay, and the help of a psychic sidekick. She will slow time, fling your enemies around like ragdolls, and is quite the little firestarter. As the main character, you will weave these elements together as you play and produce a murder masterpiece of your own creation as you fight not only for your freedom, but for Evelyn's’ too.
The player will have to help a living weapon escape the city, away from the clutches of a wicked corporation, thus can’t be used to murder, and so she can be free to be a child. The corporation are desperate to get her back. They are going to throw everything they have at you in a desperate bid to hold on to what’s theirs. Getting out isn’t going to be so easy…
Backstory Overview:
You will play as Dexter Moneaux, a deeply unhappy man who has just been floating through life, making no human connection. After years of working for various Private Military Companies (PMC) stationed around the world, he was eventually blacklisted as an antisocial, and the work dried up.
He would have taken any job, he was lucky enough to get a career at Emmaculate Industries. They don’t care if your antisocial, Hell, they prefer it if you’re a loner, it means you’re more inclined to keep their secrets.
It’s a pretty cushy gig too. All you have to do is watch over some kids, transport them from place to place, Go on raids, Generic shady stuff…
At first it doesn’t even register why a Military Research and Development (R&D) company would even have children. He just accepts what they tell him. These kids are from orphanage’s and warzones, they’re unwanted, and that they are training them up to be exemplary employees. Seems fair…
You’ve always been good at going unnoticed, you hear things. Things you can’t bring yourself to believe. They might not be just “kids” after all.
What’s it got to do with you? You keep your head down, and work your way up the ladder quickly, and are put in charge of a just one kid. A girl.
She spends her days going from room to room. She spends her nights weeping, you can hear it over the monitor. You never get to see her face, but, there’s just something about her.
You take her to the operation room, and watch them strap her to the table.
What are they going to do to her, who is she, and why are they treating her like this?
You can’t stand back any longer. You’ve been complacent for too long. She needs your help.
Time to break her out.
OPPORTUNITY SYNOPSIS:
Hey there you! We're a newly started game studio from Cornwall, England. We are working on a demo for a first person shooter. The intention being that we will use kickstarter to fund the whole project, and we’d love for you to come join our team!
First up, I want to be as transparent as I can up front. Initially it will be unpaid. Though, if everything goes well and we go on to make the whole game, it has the potential to be a paid full project. Wait, wait, wait, WAIT, Please! Let me preface this by saying; I know this is a lots of if’s and maybes… I know that animation and VFX’s are a completely different kettle of fish too what the rest of us guys are doing, as it is a job that requires a level of time and effort that goes into it animations is next level, and for you to take your time out to help us for a maybe? I see that this but we’re killing it. All of us in the team are really trying our hardest to make this a game a real thing.
It's called serial link, it's a satirical fps set in Utopian city run by a evil corporation. You play as a Mercenary working security for the the bad guys. You have a to free a girl who has been created with the intention of being a living weapon. The cornerstone of the gameplay is the delicate balance of gunplay and psychic powers, whilst also maintaining a strong focus on narrative. Think games like Bioshock and F.E.A.R...
We have a programmer, a Designer & writer, two artists, three 3D modelers, a musician, a sound designer, and three excellent voice actors . We do not have anyone with experience in visual effects and/or animation in UE4.
The VFX artist will need to have experience Using Unreal engine 4 (obviously). The main speciality we are looking for is someone with a knowledge of blood and gore, as they are super important to the aesthetic of the game. There’s 9 litres of blood (ish) in the human body, we want to show that on screen. The game features a lot of psychic powers too so these are another factor. We also need things like muzzle flashes, tacer effects, weapon effects, bullet impacts, smoke, steam, grenade effects, etc etc….
As for the animator position: It’s about finding someone who realizes the importance of the small details, and not just the big ones. We’re trying to make something “realistically fantastical”, and it’ll be a hard balance to get. Variety is key!
Our social media across the board is @sofaninjastudios. If you wish to see us in motion; please find us there we have all the concept art, playtests, and the like up on there… Just so you know we’re not messing about.
And finally, here is our website with some test footage: https://www.sofaninjastudios.com/
Please direct all inquiries to my email: matthewalexanderjordan@gmail.com
_________________________________________________________________________Production title: Serial Link
Union / Non-Union: Non-Union Production
Type: Independent
Project length: Short demo (20-30 mins of gameplay)
Project format: VFX’s & Animations
Posted on: Monday, July 2nd, 2018
Production location: Cornwall UK
Production Company: Sofa Ninja Studios
Company website: https://www.sofaninjastudios.com/
Producer: Mike Ellis
Writer/designer: Matthew Jordan
Email: matthewalexanderjordan@gmail.com
Compensation: None