Senior Technical Artist Generalist
Posizione: Redwood City, CA, USA
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Requisition Number: 175094
Position Title: Senior Technical Artist
External Description:
At Maxis, we excel at outrageous thinking. It's the fuel that inspires the best games in the world. We're trailblazers and great storytellers. But it's not just about amazing your peers – it's about amazing yourself and our fans. Take risks. Work with dazzling minds and dare to dream big. Together, we can change the way millions play every day. The Sims 4 has an extremely unique player base, with 60% of our audience being women between the ages of 18-24. We are looking for someone with deep insights on how to create the best experience for our players.
Job Summary
Maxis is looking for a Technical Artist Generalist. We have projects in both production and pre production phases, and we are looking for teammates to collaborate with to bring our new characters & worlds to life. If you are passionate about bringing the latest trends in technology to bear against your craft, and working with others to develop outstanding experiences for our IPs … come join our team. You will report to the studio Technical Art Director.
Responsibilities
- Work with Technical & Art Directors, Engineers, and Art Discipline Leads to develop industry-leading content pipelines.
- Develop tools and workflows to empower world building, character, and animation artists to create outstanding content.
- Develop and maintain pipelines supporting large libraries of game art content in live service ecosystems.
- Work with TDs and TADs to develop content performance plans, and monitor performance to provide performance guidance, based on established metrics and reporting methods.
- Develops tools, pipelines, & processes for performance management aligned towards meeting art production goals.
- Firefight production issues, investigating hot issues and resolving roadblocks.
- Work with Technical Art partners across EA to develop and share pipelines and best practices.
- Keep up with the latest trends and technical tools for developing content and inspire others through knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of tech art, tech animation, and world development experience in Maya for video games.
- Served as a Senior Tech Artist on a published (or soon to be) video game project.
- Experience working in Unreal Editor.
- Experience with Unreal Blueprint and asset scripting.
- Expert proficiency with Maya and modern DCC applications.
- Proficiency in Python & Mel (C# and other languages.)
- Experience writing tools to aid animators, character, and object artist workflows.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across multiple disciplines to achieve team technical objectives.
- Ability to communicate thru solid documentation of developed pipelines and workflows.
- Experience in Perforce or other version control software.
- Well versed in Shotgun, Jira or other bug tracking and project management software.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience developing for iOS/Android.
- Experience developing for console hardware (XB1/XBX/PS4/PS5).
- Machine learning experience, with applications to content creation.
- Experience with Unreal Lighting, Post, and Niagara Visual Effects systems.
- In-depth experience creating and maintaining high-end character rigs.
- Experience in working with keyframe animation and motion capture data, troubleshooting motion data issues, and ensuring animation best practices.
- Experience developing and maintaining animation blend trees.
- The ability to read and write shader source code using HLSL or GLSL.
- Experience with shader networks and procedural texturing.
- Solid understanding of PBR rendering and material / light interactions.
- Skills in Substance Designer & Painter workflows.
- Houdini procedural workflow experience.
- Background in photography, painting, concept art, or animation.
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Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.
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Days Open: 25
Can this position be remote?: 1
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EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.