Senior Storyboard/Animatic Artist and Editor

Requisition Number: 166527

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Senior Storyboard/Animatic Artist and Editor

Term: 6 months - 1 year

Location: Redwood City, CA | Open to most US Locations

 

High Level

We're looking for a gifted visual storyteller to help us visualize our designs, gameplay experiences, and technology solutions through animatics and storytelling. Maxis creates life simulations that tell stories through characters in every-day or extravagant situations. As such, we need someone who can help us explore body language, visualize relationship dynamics and play with timing and spacing between characters.

We're interested to know:

• How do a couple watch a romantic movie together when one is upset with the other?
• How does a husband engage in a conversation with his wife, while he almost breaks a new record on his favorite video game?
• How does a family cook together in the same kitchen while carrying out a conversation?

Our ideal candidate is someone who is thrilled to contribute visually and share ideas, in a collaborative environment with several disciplines, and who loves telling stories about every-day life.

You will report to a Studio Development Director.

Responsibilities:

• Creatively tackle challenges in story and explore ways in which to bring characters to life, visualize game dynamics and support story expectations.
• Brainstorm and create storyboard panels against a specified vision or problem space.
• Produce illustrations and sketches evoking the project's style and aesthetic.
• Apply emotion and humor to characters.
• Apply dynamic action and exaggerated gestures.
• Work within staging and composition of the scene.
• Emulate character designs, from our character team, within boards.
• Bring life to each character and emphasize on their personas.
• Translate storyboards into Animatic sequences that highlight and bring the characters to life.
• Edit and refine the timing of Animatic sequences to maximize emotional impact and convey appropriate audience response.
• Partner with peers from different disciplines to understand challenges and suggest improvements.
• Team up with creative supervisors on deliverable goals within the limitations of the story/script.
• Communicate work progress, identify blockers and dependencies, and identify impact on deliverables.
• Independently manage time of deliverables and provide estimates on tasks.

Qualifications:

• Excellent foundation in art production, and experienced in developing drawings and sketches that demonstrate:
• Characters that portray emotion, humor, and appeal.
• Clear storytelling with action, mechanics, and interaction.
• Expert sense of camera, staging, perspective, and composition skills.
• Expert sense of anatomy, dynamic motion posing and exaggerated gestures.
• A high level of experience with digital editing software
• Experience in hands-on timing and editing of focused animatics to create lively and dynamic story sequences that inspire gameplay implementation. For example:
• A conversation between multiple characters
• A dinner sequence involving an extended family
• A lively sidewalk scene outside a store
• Experience collaborating and communicating in a diverse environment of different disciplines.
• 5+ years of professional experience on either Feature Films, Television Series, Advertising, Comics, Games (as a Story Artist), or Cinematics.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is a plus.
• Estimates work, communicates changes, and works within a deadline structure.
• Succeed in a remote working environment.
• Submissions:
• Demo-reel or video of Storyboard Animatics (accompanied with voice / sound)
• Portfolio containing Images of Storyboard sequences
• Advanced knowledge of software:
• Photoshop
• Toon Boom Storyboard Pro / Adobe Premiere (Comparable tool)

Our Global Benefits package is not included for this particular role.

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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.

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Days Open: 80

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.