Graphic Designer (Contract)

Requisition Number: 166035

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Role Overview

Graphic Designers will focus on the game player’s experience and interaction with the game. Their goal is to make the player’s experience as intuitive as possible, in particular by making sure a game player can easily navigate menus, icons, and displays. You will play an important role in the creation of Vanity (apparel, skins) assets for trending game modes. The Graphic Designer will help conceptualize and create individual assets for the interface. Animation may also be required.

• Work with creative director and producer; participate in the creative process of in-game Vanity (apparel, skins) assets
• Conceptualizes thematic-based items that players can earn and equip in-game
• Create game menu mock-ups consistent with the game's art direction
• Create designs, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts. Review final layouts and suggest improvements as needed.
• Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy and select style and size of type.
• Improve file size and configurations. Manipulate UI content and assets
• Confer with the product owners to discuss and determine layout design.
• Prepare illustrations or rough sketches of material, discussing them with supervisors and making necessary changes.
• Study illustrations and photographs to plan the presentation of materials and products.
• Bonus: Any experience with Adobe After Effects, Maya or other Motion Graphics are a plus

Additionally, you will need to provide customized art content for Madden Overdrive Dynamic Messaging and MOTD on a daily basis, sometimes 7-days a week, sometimes 20+ images per day in multiple formats as needed for Live Content. The content is often iterated, sometimes even changed wholesale as our needs change. The Artist will work with other artists, producers, and designers to develop content that meets game style requirements and Live Content themes. 

What skills does EA look for?

Our Graphic Designers have a background in digital interface design (console, software, web, and mobile).

From a technical standpoint, Graphic Designers must have experience with Photoshop, Flash, and Illustrator. Nice to have skills include 3DS Max, Maya, Softimage/XSI, Premiere, Dreamweaver, Adobe Indesign and After Effects.

Graphic Designers have artistic, typographic, and layout skills. You design solutions while following creative and art direction. A passion for apparel/clothing/style is a plus.

A Graphic Designer’s portfolio must demonstrate a style without sacrificing readability and flow of information. They must demonstrate a good eye for:

• Composition and layout
• Typography
• Color theory

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

EEOText: EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano, o de cualquier otra característica protegida por ley. También consideramos candidatos cualificados con antecedentes penales, de acuerdo a la ley aplicable. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.

Days Open: 74

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.