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Senior Environment Artist

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 164642

Position Title: Senior Environment Artist

External Description:

Senior Environment Artist (Create-Apex Legends)

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 Environment 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

  • Creating and owning environments, from individual assets through to entire levels or sets.
  • Working with project Leads, to scope, plan, and deliver finished levels.
  • Supporting the Art Director and Environments Lead, to construct briefs, assemble reference material, delegate and direct work of other artists.
  • Deconstructing concept art and style guides into initial grey-blocks and asset breakdowns.
  • Collaborating with Designers and other domains, to ensure levels and assets support the gameplay.
  • Creating final assets, maximizing opportunities for reuse, modular construction, and technical efficiency.
  • Terrain creation, using traditional and heightfield based processes, modeled elements, and placement tools.
  • Set dressing levels, conveying a sense of depth and storytelling while adhering to gameplay metrics.
  •  Able to assess performance of a given level/area and prioritize a list of optimizations.
  • Has a good understanding of perforce and ability to troubleshoot technical challenges as they arise.
  • Providing input into techniques, tools, and workflows.
  • Mentoring more junior staff.

Qualifications

  • 6 or more years of production experience, creating Environments.
  • Asset creation abilities across a broad range of subject matter, e.g. hard surface/architecture / organic assets/vegetation.
  • Experience creating complex terrains, using hand-authored and/or procedural workflows and tools.
  • Ability to paint photorealistic and stylized PBR surfaces, ideally using Substance Painter.
  • High fidelity modeling skills (using Maya or similar), as well as high-to-low poly baking experience.
  • Experience breaking down levels/scenes into efficient asset sets and components.
  • Experienced in leading and directing artists in delivering Environments content to final quality.
  • Providing both high level and detailed estimates / scoping recommendations for entire levels and/or multiple assets.
  • Knowledge and experience with content-driven game engines (e.g. Unreal, Frostbite, Unity, GtkRadiant).
  • Experience with Proprietary Game engine and assets.
  • Experience collaborating directly with designers, engineers, and Tech Artists.
  • Photogrammetry and Substance Designer experience is a plus.
  • Experience briefing, delegating and directing work to other Artists, internal and external.

Portfolio Requirements

  • Examples of levels and assets that were created/owned from start to finish, in either a lead role and/or as a contributor.
  • Sets, assets, and environments that demonstrate an understanding of, real-world construction, material properties, and organic wear and tear.
  • Work examples demonstrating composition and visual storytelling skills.
  • Examples of assets and/or levels that demonstrate effective world-building and content creation processes, including modular construction and efficient distribution of detail.
  • Clear breakdown of what you did for each work example shown.

 

 

 

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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.

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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.

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