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EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to provide outstanding visuals, audio and technology. Our teams comprise of artists, engineers, technicians, designers and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound and experiences. We are a diverse team, motivated through collaboration, culture and craft.

Illuminating the worlds and characters in our games, the EA Create Lighting team is setting new standards in lighting in-game, cinematics and narrative sequences.

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.

Key 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

Required Technical Experience:

Degree or Diploma in an art-related subject such as Visual Effects, Computer Animation, Film Production, Photography.
Have shipped titles as a lighting artist with 5+ years’ experience in software game development
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 colour 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

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! 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.