Senior Environment Artist

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 163978

Position Title: Senior Environment Artist

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Senior Hard Surface Artist

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to bring outstanding visuals, audio, and technology to life. 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, unified through collaboration, culture, and craft.
As Senior Hard Surface Artist you will work with both Respawn and the EA Create Art Worlds Teams, to create diverse and engaging levels and assets for our players. You will collaborate closely with Art Direction and Creative Leads, to help develop both the visual and gameplay experiences for Apex Legends.

Responsibilities
● Create weapons, loot, and support any Hard Surface-related assets for a FPS game.
● Create high fidelity FPS weapons and optimized 3P models within a given deadline
● Proactively seek answers to problems with the right stakeholders
● Work alongside project leads to plan and scope hard surface asset deliverables
● Reports to Art Director and Hardsurface Lead assisting with initiatives such as reference gathering, assets design, and briefing teams on review and feedbacks
● Collaborate or support Animations, Design, VFX, and UX team with asset creation
● Integrate, setup, troubleshoot assets in proprietary tools and game engine
● Basic rigid body rigging
● Has a good understanding of perforce and ability to troubleshoot technical challenges as they arise.
● Provides feedback with workflows and toolsets
● Mentors junior to mid-level artist

Qualifications
● 8 or more years of production experience, creating Hard Surface
● Expert in Hard Surface asset creation in various style from realistic to novelty themed
● A desire to expand beyond modeling and asset creation ensuring assets completion from start to finish. From scoping, planning, design collaboration, exploration, features implementation, and other additional R&D
● Ability to understand and work with other proprietary tools proficiently in short time period
● Experience briefing, delegating and directing work to other Artists, internal and external.
● Proficient in Maya and ability to create high poly models primarily within Maya
● Ability to use secondary programs to assist high poly creation includes Zbrush, Blender, Marvelous Designer, or equivalent
● Proficient in Substance Painter and Marmoset for texture baking workflows
● Extensive experience in high poly bakes to low poly and PBR texture workflows
● Comprehensive knowledge with some of the mainstream game engine such as Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, Snowdrop, and source
Portfolio Requirements
● Examples of hard surface assets including but not limited to FPS weapons and vehicles
● Understanding of mechanical design and weapon design
● PBR workflows
● A clear breakdown of what you did for each work example shown.
Bonus
Weapon rigging experiences
Basic understanding of game scripting

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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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: 36

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