Art Director
Location: Austin, TX, USA
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Requisition Number: 159381
Position Title: Senior Art Director
External Description:
Art Director | Maxis Texas
Maxis Texas, EA's newest Maxis studio, is looking for a visionary Art Director to lead our art team in the creation of a new, unannounced title. We're looking for candidates with a unique vision and the ability to promote that vision, providing stunning visuals at the highest levels of execution.
At Maxis we're pushing the boundaries on every front, so you'll get a chance to stretch beyond your comfort zone and learn while you contribute. Our team culture is collaborative and we expect everyone to think like game makers and approach development with a Player First perspective.
You'll report to our Senior Producer and your responsibilities will include:
- Collaborate and develop a cohesive aesthetic vision for our bold, new project
- Team up with the Creative Director, Tech Leadership, and Production to accomplish key milestones
- Extend the game's aesthetic vision beyond core game visuals to cohesively support UI/UX, Live Services and marketing considerations
- Understand and navigate technical constraints to produce stunning results on every platform
- Create and maintain style guides and high-level documentation
- Nurture the development and well-being of the art team
- Train artists to meet style guide parameters and iterate to improve results, pipelines and processes
- Develop partnerships with external outsourcing partners to ensure assets hit style, schedule, technical and quality targets
- Assemble requirements for the product and create an art plan that supports them
- Align with producers ito hit sprints and milestones
- Develop art team production best practices in collaboration with development directors
Qualifications
- Accomplished CG artist with a minimum of 10 years experience in game development and at least one shipped title as a video game art director
- A deep understanding of all aspects of contemporary 3D game development: concept art, character modeling, prop modeling, environment modeling, lighting, animation, visual effects and user-interface design.
- Experienced at establishing art vision and guidelines, preferable on new IPs
- Accomplished in leading and inspiring teams of artists and in delivering appropriate feedback as the team executes through pre-production, production and as a continually evolving live service
- Experienced in working with team partners to create a content plan and backlog as well as a developing a hiring ramp and timeline required to execute
- Prior experience ramping up and working effectively with external development partners
- Proven solutions-orientation and prototyping ability
- Strong sense of composition, lighting, form and palette
- Deep, demonstrated passion for game development and game art
Bonus
- Experience developing games for the mobile market
- Experience in developing 2D and 3D assets for monetized live service games
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Days Open: 35
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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。