Character Artist

Requisition Number: 164124

Position Title: Senior Character Artist

External Description:

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story. Our teams inspire creativity using tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and work with thousands of developers across EA’s network of studios. We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling. If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

BioWare is looking for a Character Artist for Star Wars: The Old Republic to create compelling art that captures the mood and style of Star Wars. You will help create characters, outfits, mounts, boss characters, and other content.

What the Character Artist will do at BioWare Austin:

• You will sculpt, model, and texture efficient, high-quality characters, outfits, and creatures that are consistent with our specific and established art style from concept to completion.
• You will skin character models to existing rigs and integrate finished character assets into our game engine
• You will fix bugs on character assets.
• You will work with an amazing team, contributing to and helping schedule, ideation, constructive feedback, and outsourcing efforts.
• You will assist the character art team in a supervisory role, participating in concept discussions, planning, and feedback for junior and outsource artists.
• You will work on an established title.
• You will report to the Art Director.
• You will be a part of a project in the Star Wars universe!

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of experience in the industry or a related field.
• Expert knowledge of human anatomy (and comparative animal-anatomy if applicable) and its reaction to movement.
• Expert knowledge of proportion, silhouette, and topology.
• Expert knowledge of clothing construction and wrinkle behavior.
• Experience with color theory.
• Expert in creating UV maps and textures.
• Experience with how and why topology is created to achieve the desired rendering and deformation results.
• Extremely knowledgeable in shader capabilities and works with SEs and TAs to modify shaders.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest techniques and industry standards and make sure these are followed by the team.
• Can render techniques and works with SEs and TDs to evaluate final results and suggest areas for improvement.
• Follow art direction and complete a character task.
• Work with the Art Director and Art Lead to establish visual targets.
• Mentor junior character artists.

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Company Profile:

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

EEOText: 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, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 202

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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.