Lighting Artist - Apex Legends

Requisition Number: 163326

Position Title: Lighter

External Description:

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to provide outstanding visuals, audio and technology. Our teams comprise of artists, engineers, technicians, designers and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound and experiences. We are a diverse team, motivated through collaboration, culture and craft.

Illuminating the worlds and characters in our games, the EA Create Lighting team is setting new standards in lighting in-game, cinematics and narrative sequences. 

We focus on high-end visual production across multiple genres and art styles. Our art studios are in Vancouver, Orlando, Guildford, Gothenburg, and Shanghai. Collaborating directly with our game team partners, we share a unified passion for creating outstanding visuals. We are adventurous, creative, courageous and we take chances. We are looking for pioneers who cut new paths.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Use lighting to emphasize drama or narrative, and to establish/clarify location, weather, time of day.
2. Respect and follow an established design theme for a sequence or project
3. Refer to relevant production designs and apply visual style faithfully, taking care to maintain continuity throughout the scene and game
4. Ensure that the lighting fits within game performance standards

Required Technical Experience:

• Degree or Diploma in an art-related subject such as Visual Effects, Computer Animation, Film Production, Photography.
• Have shipped titles as a lighting artist with 2+ years’ experience in software game development
• Build lighting in game engine with different lighting passes such as direct and indirect lighting passes for exterior and interior in large scale maps
• Identify lighting issues and apply fix on lightmapped and vertex lit geometries
• Work lighting knowledge of Maya, or other commercial 3D packages
• Edit images in mainstream software such as Photoshop 
• Experience with portrait lighting, stage lighting, or architectural lighting
• Knowledge of colour theory, composition, light, and form
• Work from reference materials and concept
• Create polygonal modelling, and texture UV is considered an asset

Performance Competencies:

1. You should work well within a team and pipelines
2. You will provide high-quality work
3. You can receive feedback and adapt to it

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Community / Marketing Title: Lighting Artist - Apex Legends

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. este o companie de divertisment interactiv, lider la nivel mondial. EA oferă jocuri, conținut și servicii online pentru console conectate la Internet, calculatoare personale, telefoane mobile și tablete.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 46

Can this position be remote?:

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