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VFX Artist

Location: Montreal, QC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 168556

Position Title: Visual Effects Artist 2

External Description:

"Motive" is the driving force within us that takes us from an idea to reality. Our studio provides a safe, trusting, and empowering environment for our game teams to unleash their creativity across massive brands. But we're not talking about the expected, the conventional, the cliché. We want none of that. Here, you will help make the extraordinary. You'll also help shape our culture. Here, everyone has a voice, everyone can be themselves, everyone is welcome.

What a VFX Artist will do at Motive:

Responsibilities:

  • Under the direction of Lead and Senior Artists, create high-quality effects that communicate gameplay and enhance the player's experience. These FX assets will be created for in-game environments, gameplay, cinematics, and scripted events. Aim to reach an industry-leading quality bar and raise the product experience.  FX assets include particle systems, meshes, shaders, textures, rigid body sims, and animations
  • Create FX Assets using EA's proprietary game engine, according to the agreed design and within the constraints of the target hardware and software. There is an emphasis on knowledge sharing between different teams throughout EA's studios.
  • Help build technical and aesthetic considerations for the project's visual effect art style. A balance must be achieved between high visual quality and staying within our performance constraints.
  • You will report to the Lead VFX Artist.

Requirements:

  • Production experience developing for console games to create real-time VFX with a supporting body of work.
  • Experience in 2d packages such as Photoshop, After Effects, or Nuke.
  • Experience in 3d packages such as Max or Maya.
  • Knowledge of environmental effects, lighting, and dynamics.
  • Work in a team and communicate with other disciplines.
  • Solid Technical abilities to help create new visual effects art pipelines.
  • Approach tasks, files, and storage of the material methodically.

Additional Skills:

  • Knowledge of Frostbite, and experience with Unity Visual Graph Editor or Unreal Niagara is also valued
  • Knowledge of substance is valued.
  • Experience with a scripting language is a big plus (HLSL, Python).
  • Experience with Houdini is a big plus

3D Portfolio Requirements**

A link to your portfolio must be included with your application/resume. All portfolios should contain a breakdown of the work. It must be very clear what you, the applicant, are responsible for in your reel, screenshots, scanned pictures, and web page portfolio.

(Please include as many of the following elements as you can)

  • Examples of natural and organic effects (smoke, fire, waterfalls)
  • Examples of fantastical effects animation (spells, explosions)
  • Examples of rigid or soft-body dynamics
  • Effects created in a game engine
  • Examples of modeling texturing and lighting
  • Examples of multiple animations.

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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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.

Days Open: 33

Can this position be remote?: 1

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