Technical Art Director

Requisition Number: 152279

Position Title: Senior Technical Artist 2

External Description:

Technical Art Director

 

We are Artworks! A centralized creative team that enhances the art direction and overall vision of the games we work on.  As a TA Director within Artworks you will be working in one of the most innovative and progressive environments within the entertainment industry.  At EA, you are expected and empowered to redefine what games can be!

 

The Team:

We are creatively driven and focused on high end visual production across multiple genres and art styles.  Our art studios are in Redwood City, Vancouver, Orlando, Guildford, Gothenburg, and Shanghai. Collaborating directly with our game team partners we share a unified passion for creating amazing experiences, and industry leading visuals. We are adventurous and creative.  We are courageous, and we take chances.  We seek pioneers who cut new paths and conquer challenges with fierce determination

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the unified and common technological vision, roadmap and art workflows for content authoring and its associated tools and pipelines
• Collaborate with external EA partners, internal EA organizations and Designers, Artists and Engineers to understand and interpret gameplay requirements and drive best-in-class technology for EA’s titles.
• Drive the technical art asset delivery for the entire game
• Drive continuous asset build stability and provide mentorship to technical artists to help debug asset failures.
• Prioritize development needs, both internal to game team as well as those delivered to partner groups such as Core Technology, Configuration Management, Artworks and other central teams.
• Evaluate technology delivered by central teams for technical completion, performance, quality and compliance.
• Prototype cutting-edge approaches to art/content creation in support of R&D efforts and new intellectual property.

 

Required Technical Skills and Experience:

• At least 10 years games/animation/FX production experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of CG fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing.
• Strong understanding of game development frameworks and methodologies.
• Understanding of various gaming platform limitations with regard to visual assets.
• Expert understanding of at least one 3D package, preferably Maya.
• Advanced scripting experience with Python and/or Mel/Maya API.
• Ability to deconstruct and modify proprietary tools and pipelines.
• Excellent aptitude for troubleshooting CG issues.
• Ability to think creatively to resolve technical challenges and limitations.
• Strong understanding of good asset management practices.
• Excellent communication skills, with a willingness and confidence to provide a bridge between artists and software engineers.
• Experience shipping AAA game cinematic lighting is a plus.
• Experience shipping AAA game level lighting is a Plus.
• Enthusiastic about film, photography, video games, and painting.
• Experience mentoring artists, engineers, and/or technical artists.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience/training

 

Performance Competencies:

• The candidate must be meticulous, detail oriented, driven, and need very little supervision.
• Will have the ability to work to deliver on time.
• Experience working in both video games and film preferred.

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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: 43

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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。