External Development Art Lead

Requisition Number: 161245

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

External Development Art Lead

Guildford, United Kingdom

We’re Criterion, and we love making games!

For more than fifteen years we’ve entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning games. Our talented people have expressed their passion for world-class game feel, AAA audiovisual quality and technical innovation in the Burnout & Need for Speed series and and more recently in Battlefield 1, Star Wars X-Wing VR, Starfighter Assault and Arcade for Star Wars Battlefront II and Firestorm for Battlefield V.We believe that healthy, engaged teams make great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspectives. We’d love to hear yours! Crunch doesn’t help make a better game. We don’t do it. For the past three years we are very proud to have been recognised by gamesindustry.biz as one of the best places to work in the UK. Let’s talk about how you could be a part of it.

What an External Development Art Lead does at Criterion:

We are looking for creative, collaborative and passionate people to help us and our partners create beautiful assets and immersive worlds that enhance the game experience. We need your creative eye and process focus to help direct external partners in creating amazing content.

Reporting to the Team Art Director, you will work with artists, level designers and technical artists. The team operates a highly collaborative and iterative design process where all voices are valued and encouraged, in an environment that fosters growth and autonomy. 

Working with the Art Leads, you will not only be involved in feedback, but you will help inform production briefs and set them up for success.

 

We're drawn to:

• Experience working with outsourcers - though not essential
• Understanding of the technical rights and wrongs of asset creation and scene layout, displaying good technical knowledge, caring about keeping our game running smoothly on console
• Natural passion for delivering quality, with a great eye for detail and an understanding of good level layout
• General knowledge of common production techniques including; high-low poly baking, modular asset creation, whiteboxing, physically based rendering and sculpting
• Experience with 3D content creation and texturing tools such as Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop
• Love of art and games
• Previous game development experience

 

We thought you might also want to know:

We’re based in the lovely town of Guildford – 35 minutes from central London.

Our office has an onsite café and gym and is a short walk from the train station and town centre.

• More about our studio: http://criteriongames.com/

More about our location: https://www.ea.com/careers/careers-overview/guildford

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Days Open: 47

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EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。