Requisition Number: 170236

Position Title: Associate Art Director

External Description:

Studio Overview:

At EA China Studio, we are committed to creating extraordinary high-quality mobile games based on EA's top IPs, including FIFA, Need for Speed, Plants Vs Zombies. We value innovation, autonomy, and collaboration in our culture. At EA we work fast and smart ensure the delivery of best quality products in Asia. We are always eager to try new things and can involve fast from past experiences. We have fun with our coworkers and highly respect our commitment of healthy work-life balance.

Job Overview:

We are seeking an Art Director who is passionate about creating high-quality, stylized realism game art and is eager to join us in our desire to push quality to the next level. As an Art Director at EA China Studio, you will help the dev team create more legend characters/weapons and culturalized content to life. This role will report to our Studio Art Director. You'll be working closely with the China dev team and EA internal/external teams on the multi-art pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all content achieves the high standards set by Apex Legends. Take lead in producing high-quality artwork including weapon, character, and live service contents, setting creative and technical standards, and determining the best tools and techniques to use.

• Define brand for each live service content and execution in high-quality on time.

• Work with Studio Art Director and producers to manage, maintain, and support the visual style that is established for the project.
• Influences projects/teams across all art domains; Works on complex domain tasks with multiple dependencies and interconnections for concept art and animations.

• Assist with Tech Art and Engineering in planning and implementing our art pipeline.

• Manage vendors and oversee outsourced art production.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Senior character 3D Artist or Lead Artist role in games industry, with profound experience and knowledge of creating character, weapon and related assets.
• Familiarity with FPS games.

• Strong Maya or similar 3D modeling software.
• Expert sculpting skills using Zbrush from scratch.
• Expert knowledge of PBR texture/material workflows.
• Experience with Substance Painter.
• Have a good understanding of art-related disciplines - concepting, animation, rigging, visual effects, or technical art.

• Have a good understanding of the technology used in game design and development, its capabilities, and limitations.
• Passion for collaboration with other departments, artists, designers, and programmers
• Experience in working with outsource art studios and other external vendors.
• Passionate about games and have well understanding of what makes a game visually appealing and fun to play.

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Community / Marketing Title: Art Director - 3D Character美术总监 - 3D角色

Company Profile:

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.

EEOText:

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: 139

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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.