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Senior Character Artist

위치: Redwood City, CA, USA

참고

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Requisition Number: 159825

Position Title: Senior Character Artist

External Description:

Senior Character Artist | Maxis | Redwood Shores

Job Summary

Maxis is looking for a Senior Character Artist to help establish the look and pipeline of our characters for a new, unannounced project. If you are a character artist who is great at stylization, artistic interpretation and a deep experience in character pipelines, bringing the latest trends in technology to bear against your craft, and mentoring others to develop excellent experiences for our IP … come join our team. 

The Role

You will work with the Art Director and Technical Leads to establish visual standards and technical specifications of characters for the project. 

You will also participate in RnD of the asset creation methods and pipelines designed to add new design-driven features unique for the project.

In addition to creating high quality character models and materials, you guide junior members of the team and external partners to deliver work that meets the project standards. You will seek opportunities to enhance the game, enjoy finding latest technologies that improve the pipeline, embrace constructive feedback, and grow in a collaborative environment.

You will report to one of our studio Development Directors.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with the Art Director and technical partners to define and refine the look and feel of characters for the project.
  • Work with Technical Art, Engineering and other artists to develop the character creation and integration pipeline.
  • Research latest modeling techniques and convey them to the Technical Art team.
  • Create high-quality character models and materials/shaders including in-game and high-resolution assets.
  • Update style and technical documents for the character art team.
  • Work with Technical Artists to create and improve tools and workflows.
  • Actively participate in milestone planning and reviews.
  • Work within deadlines and display strong time management skills.
  • Provide mentorship for junior team members.
  • Review work from external partners and provide feedback.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of production experience as a character artist.
  • Have served as a Senior or Lead Character Artist on a published title and have shipping experience on multiple game titles.
  • Mastery in industry standard software like Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter/Designer and Photoshop.
  • Experience with scale, proportion, surface properties, and human anatomy.
  • Demonstrated ability in character stylization
  • Knowledge of character setup and rigging.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the key topology principles for human body and face, animals, cloth, hair, props.
  • Understanding of current gen video game tech methods and their implications for the character creation pipeline, for example: PBR, dynamics, displacement, parallax, SSS, shader animation.
  • Experience working with designers, animators, riggers, engineers to develop new solution/tool/tech/pipeline.
  • Experience working with video game engines and implementing 3D work into the pipeline.
  • Ability to create shaders/materials using painting and node-based techniques (e.g. Substance Painter and Designer)
  • Knowledge of high-poly to low-poly surface baking
  • Passion for making and playing games

Bonus Qualifications

  • Cloth simulation. 
  • Knowledge of scripting (Python, Max Script, Maya mel)
  • Experience working with remote teams (outsourcing).

Materials required for Application

  • Portfolio or Reel (through website, blog, or online gallery) demonstrating examples of stylized characters and several examples of the topology
  • Resume/CV

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Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

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Days Open: 238

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EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

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