Concept Artist (Contract)

Requisition Number: 163911

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Concept Artist 

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL®Hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums, and game apps, please visit www.easports.com.

The Challenge Ahead

As a Concept Artist, you will work with the Visual Development Director, Art Directors, and other Team Leads in creating characters, objects, logo design, and environment art from quick roughs through color comps toward a final. The Concept Artist will support the artistic vision of the projects.

Responsibilities:

• Create stylized paintings and illustrations.
• Create different concepts including characters, creatures, props, vehicles, architecture, and environments.
• Design original concepts while following specific style guides.
• Partner with the concept team to create balanced solutions to all related technical and aesthetic issues.
• Create a large volume of quality concept art throughout the project’s development cycle.
• Translate visual development into production ready creations.
• Maintain a standard of art by providing several viable solutions.
• Provide research and conceptual development ideas independently.
• Create color moods that capture the feel of the environments. 

What skills does EA look for?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Art.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in game development or art-related field.
• Solid familiarity with Photoshop.
• Painting skills in traditional or digital illustrations and use of color.
• Demonstration of a concept’s evolution from rough ideation to a final tight drawing or “blueprint”.
• A traditionally accomplished artist with an understanding of human anatomy and architectural and environmental design.
• Experience with lighting, composition, color theory, atmosphere, materials, and textures.
• Have excellent senses of human proportion, costuming, color composition, and can render both stylized characters and imaginative fantasy or realistic environments.
• Experience with game creation processes and dependencies.
• Excellent rendering skills: The ability to provide color keys, mood paintings, and style sheets from rough to fully realized paintings.

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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: 25

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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。