3D Environment Artist - PopCap

Requisition Number: 118780

Position Title: Environment Artist 2

External Description:

Join EA Mobile as our next 3D Environment Artist - Create Your Career With Us! 

At Electronic Arts we put our players first, and we’re looking for the most talented and creative game developers in the world to help us become the world’s #1 mobile gaming company. Mobile is the future of our industry and the future of our company. As EA's first label dedicated to purely digital games, EA Mobile creates games for mobile devices, social networks and online environments that deliver seamless play anytime, anywhere, on any device. Connecting a market of more than one billion core and mass-casual gamers worldwide, EA Mobile delivers engaging, accessible, high quality games to people of all skill levels and interests.

Our mobile team is growing fast, with 17 exciting studios around the world and a portfolio of blockbuster titles like Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, FIFA, Madden NFL Mobile, NBA, Real Racing, SimCity, The Sims FreePlay, and Plants vs. Zombies.  Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication are what make us tick as we prepare ourselves for massive amounts of growth and an incredible amount of fun. We want to engage our players and create the most entertaining mobile titles in the world.

EA Seattle is looking for a 3D Environment Artist to join our successful and talented team.

The Role

As an Environment Artist, you will be a primary contributor to the artistic vision for our games.

We are looking for a talented modeler who will take a major part in driving our games’ environment look and feel. Work done in this role must: bolster the products’ IP and style, be authored for optimal performance on various devices, and satisfy our game designs’ needs in order to obtain stakeholder buy in.

What You’ll Do

-Work with the Art Director and creative team to develop various environment props and compose full environmental scenes in 3D.

-Help with creating environmental style guides and templates.

-Work proactively with various disciplines to align on asset creation goals for our products.

-Come up with creative solutions on how to convert 2D concepts into performant, appealing, and functional 3D game assets.

Required Skills and Experience

·        Maya and ZBrush skills (Hard surface and organic modeling)

·        Solid texture painting skills in Zbrush/3D Coat/Photoshop

·        Proactive work ethic with ability to self-organize and make decisions when dealing in ambiguity.

·        Excellent communication and collaboration across all disciplines.

·        Ability to adapt to a major IP’s style for the needs of a mobile game experience.

·        Strong understanding of how to create successful models for use on a mobile platform.

·        A passion for playing and making awesome games!

Pluses

·        Lighting experience is a big plus.

·        Experience implementing your own work in Unity or game engines.

·        Experience in a leadership role.

·        Experience with providing feedback to outsourcers.

·        Character modeling

·        Experience with Substance Painter or 3D Coat

·        Experience with Perforce and Hansoft

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality.

At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

Our EA Seattle location features fantastic amenities and easy access to everything the metropolis of Seattle offers, and wonderful Washington State is a nature lover’s paradise.

More about our location: www.ea.com/studios/popcap 

EA 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 or veteran status. We will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law.

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Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.