Outsourcing Character Review Artist

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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Community / Marketing Title: Outsourcing Character Review Artist

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 25

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EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。