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, NBA LIVE basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC.
After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's biggest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA, we are soon beginning an exciting new era. EA SPORTS™ FC will become the future of football from EA SPORTS – as we strive to take global football experiences to new heights, on behalf of football fans everywhere.
With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to a global community of fans, we invite you to join us and pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS!
Our team of Lighting Artists are passionate about telling engaging interactive stories through their lighting of in-game, cinematic and narrative sequences, while setting new standards in lighting.
We focus on high-end visual production across multiple genres and art styles. Our art studios are in Vancouver, Orlando, Guildford, Gothenburg, and Shanghai. Collaborating directly with our game team partners, we share a unified passion for creating outstanding visuals. We are adventurous, creative, courageous and we take chances. We are looking for pioneers who cut new paths.
Your Responsibilities
Use lighting to emphasize drama or narrative, and to establish/clarify location, weather, time of day.
Respect and follow an established design theme for a sequence or project
Refer to relevant production designs and apply visual style faithfully, taking care to maintain continuity throughout the scene and game
Ensure that the lighting fits within game performance standards
Your Qualifications
Degree or Diploma in an art-related subject such as Visual Effects, Computer Animation, Film Production, Photography.
5+ years' experience
Build lighting in game engine with different lighting passes such as direct and indirect lighting passes for exterior and interior in large-scale maps
Identify lighting issues and apply fix on lightmapped and vertex lit geometries
Work lighting knowledge of Maya, or other commercial 3D packages
Edit images in mainstream software such as Photoshop
Experience with portrait lighting, stage lighting, or architectural lighting
Knowledge of color theory, composition, light, and form
Work from reference materials and concept
Create polygonal modelling, and texture UV is considered an asset
Performance Competencies:
You should work well within a team and pipelines
You will provide high-quality work
You can receive feedback and adapt to it
About EA We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers. We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more. Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game. 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. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
