Senior Visual 3D Artist (12 Months)

Requisition Number: 164736

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

We’re Electronic Arts’ Marketing, Commercial, and Positive Play Organization (MCP). Our teams build meaningful relationships with hundreds of millions of players around the world who love our games. We aim to be the best at meeting players where they are and supporting them throughout their EA journey. Our teams develop the strategic vision of our games; execute multi-channel campaigns; build global engagement; develop global insights; and we accelerate sales and publishing efforts worldwide. Most importantly, we do all of this by understanding – and celebrating – the diversity of our players, so we can deliver the content they want when and where they want it.

EA's Marketing Communication Design Team's mission is to ignite players' imaginations through world-class design strategy and craftsmanship. We are a multidisciplinary creative team responsible for branding and visual identity, graphic design, digital media design, and motion graphics. Reporting to the Lead Designer, the Visual 3D Artist will provide hands-on support and development of assets of the visual brand identity and design system for digital/print channel executions supporting our franchise marketing campaigns that span across the whole product life cycle.

You will partner with the Art Director or Senior Designer to ensure the visual identity represents our game values, resonates with our audiences, and establishes a unique look and tone. As a 3D Artist, you will lead in the design and creation of 3D elements that impacts EA’s outward facing marketing strategy as well as in-game experiences.  

Responsibilities:

• Concept and create world-class visual assets that can help strengthen the overall visual system to support all marketing and promotional campaigns. The visual system exploration includes the 2D/3D rendering of logos and typography, 3D illustrations, graphic elements, textures, VFX effects, and possible motion-based solutions
• Partner with the art directors and senior designers to create work that unifies the marketing strategy, game vision, and design system
• Inspire and partner in the creative development of specific visual systems to ensure consistency across executions
• Understand and support a unified visual language and conceptual thinking behind creating beautiful designs that work and interpret creative feedback and data into iterative visuals
• Push visuals forward, ahead of industry trends
• Ensure consistency and quality benchmarks are met in execution
• Ensure that creative complies with the brand, platform, licensor guidelines and industry-standard specs
• Work in a hands-on environment that requires flexibility, imagination, a can-do attitude, a sense of fun, and the desire to learn and grow

Qualifications:

• 6+ years’ experience creating 2D and 3D assets from scratch or existing materials
• Basic or practical knowledge of branding, video, and digital design
• Excellent composition/framing skills and sense of scale, timing, detail, form, texture and color.
• Experience with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Experience with either After Effects, Cinema4D, Maya, 3D Studio Max or similar technologies
• You communicate complex concepts through sketches or visuals and illustrate the meaning behind the creative process.
• You bring a fresh perspective while working within the brand and project parameters, developing ideas from concept to execution
• You love receiving and applying feedback and are comfortable making changes
• You can juggle multiple projects within tight deadlines

Portfolio Review:

We want to see how you create!

You will be assessed on your portfolio as part of the hiring process. Please be sure to attach a link in your resume or upload a PDF labeled as your portfolio. Please provide as many examples of the following:

• Ability effects (e.g. cast, projectile, impact)
• Environmental effects (e.g. smoke, fire, clouds, water, steam, and explosions)
• Cinematic effects

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter interaktiver Unterhaltungssoftware. EA bietet Spiele, Inhalte und Online-Dienste für internetfähige Spielkonsolen, Personalcomputer, Mobiltelefone und Tablets an.

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Days Open: 19

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA engagiert sich für Chancengleichheit und Gleichstellung. Alle Personalentscheidungen werden unabhängig von Ethnie, Hautfarbe, Herkunft, Abstammung, Geschlecht, Geschlechtsidentität oder ausgelebtem Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung, Alter, genetischer Information, Religion, Behinderung, Krankheit, Schwangerschaft, Familienstand oder Veteranenstatus getroffen. EA sorgt außerdem für die durch geltendes Gesetz vorgeschriebenen Anpassungen am Arbeitsplatz für Individuen mit anerkannten Behinderungen.