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Senior Character Artist - Strategic Character Initiatives Team

Lage: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 172655

Position Title: Senior Character Artist

External Description:

Sr. Character Artist- Cranium 

Orlando, FL 

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

The EA SPORTS ART team is a global community of content creators covering Characters, Environments, Lighting, Project Management, Technical Art, and Visual Effects. Fueled by imagination and a unified passion to grow the love of sports for players worldwide, we push visual boundaries and create leading edge content. Serving our broad portfolio of sports titles, we craft amazing games for hundreds of millions of sports fans worldwide through inspiring visuals and immersive experiences. We are a diverse group that encourages team members to bring their unique perspectives and expertise to the table.

Role Overview: 

The Strategic Character Initiatives Team in SPORTS Art works on special projects designed to drive forward character visuals, artist workflows, tools and technology, and character-centric game features. We partner with global R&D groups, central engineering teams, Frostbite, and specific titles within Sports to develop technology and art content that advance real-time characters. The visionary work we do adds both short and long term value to our entire product portfolio.

Your Responsibilities :

The Character Artist builds the geometry of organic and inorganic characters in the game. EA Character Artists are experienced in human character modeling of both realistic and stylized figures in Maya. Character models are complex and detailed in video games with some characters coming close to 500,000 polygons. Reporting to the team Development Manager, the Character Modeler will be asked to show an interest in opportunities to improve character creation across multiple teams within EA. They will work directly with the Lead Character Modeler and the AD to ensure content is meeting the quality bar.

Your Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience in modeling and character art
  • Bachelor's degree or higher
  • A portfolio in realistic character art. Please provide a link to a portfolio on your resume.
  • Experience working with Maya, Photoshop, and ZBrush
  • Experience in prototyping and working with diverse teams consisting of technical artists, artists, and engineers. 
  • Knowledge of new industry-standard tools, workflows, and techniques including physically based rendering.
  • Demonstrate an expert understanding of human anatomy, clothing construction (wrinkle behavior), proportion, silhouette, and topology and how it relates to rendering and deformation.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of a broad mix of character-related disciplines such as modeling, texturing, shading, rigging & binding, animation, facial animation, and blend shapes.
  • Demonstrate an expert ability to prepare assets for physical simulations such as cloth, hair.
  • Demonstrate an excellent ability to interpret 2D reference material and scan data into 3D textured and surfaced models.
  • Demonstrate an ability to document workflows that will be used by our teams.
  • Sports knowledge and is a plus, but not a requirement!

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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: 233

Can this position be remote?: 0

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