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Outsourcing Character Review Artist

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 152200

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Outsourcing Character Review Artist - Contract

Location: Redwood City, CA

Term: 6 months

 

Maxis is looking for a talented individual to be a part of the creative team working on The Sims 4. This particular opening requires that the candidate be motivated, possess excellent communication skills, and has the ability to work well with a cross-disciplinary group.


The Outsourcing Character Review Artist is responsible for maintaining the overall visual style of any assigned project as well as coordinating and supervising the efforts of external vendors to achieve that look. The Outsourcing Character Review Artist will work directly with the outsourcing lead, Art Director, and other art leads to help drive the outsourced content creation on a wide variety of characters and clothing assets. This artist will be integral to the success of our outsourcing efforts, and will need to work in a fast paced development environment, while maintaining a productive relationship with external partners to provide high quality art with consistency and efficiency. The reviewer will need to collaborate closely with team leads, production, and other art disciplines to develop workflows and pipelines to get art work prepared, reviewed, and integrated in game.  The ideal candidate would have experience giving feedback, and understands that most of their time will be spent working on character art reviews.


Major responsibilities include:

  • Mentor the external art outsourcing team on a day-to-day basis
  • Create highly detailed written reviews on daily content deliveries
  • Work closely with the art and tech teams to ensure consistency between the concept, specifications, and final assets
  • Work with multiple development disciplines, including non-art specific groups, to assess and improve creative and development pipelines and processes
  • Establish and maintain the production requirements to enforce both technical and aesthetical coherence
  • Finalize and/or produce assets both for in-game use and for visual target purposes
  • Create outsourcing documentation and communicate requirements to outsourcing partners
  • Monitor the quality & consistency of outsourced production
  • Revise, change, or fix “finished” assets as needed
  • Deliver to quality while maintaining desired schedules


Skills and Experience:

  • 5+ years professional games development experience.
  • At least 1 shipped title in the role of Character Artist on PC or major console platform.
  • Strong sense of design and an ability to identify styles and trends relating to fashion/interior design and architecture.
  • A solid knowledge base in art and design history.
  • Experience creating documentation for art pipelines and workflow with external partners.
  • Extensive knowledge and proficiency in Maya, Zbrush, and Photoshop
  • Expertise with up to date art production techniques.
  • Excellent artistic skills and experience sharing that knowledge through mentoring, critiques, and tutorials.
  • Pro-actively seeks art direction and cooperation with other team members.
  • Solid time management & communication skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, solid organization and efficient time management. Takes direction and seeks clarification when necessary.
  • Self-motivated, able to collaborate with other game team leads in a deadline driven environment.

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Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

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