EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to bring outstanding visuals, audio and technology to life. Our teams consist 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’re a diverse team that is unified through collaboration, culture and craft.
VFX
Destruction, fires, smoke, clouds: just part of your everyday on the EA Create VFX team. We’re experienced in many engines and creation tools and even practical ways to create the desired effect. Join us as we inspire the world to play.
Senior Visual Effects Artist
An Senior Visual Effects Artist, works on a specific project under the direction of VFX Director and Development Director. You will prototype and create Visual Effects for real-time use in games. You will work with other Artists, Art Directors, Engineers and Producers, to create visual effects that immerse players in the experience. You should understand motion, physics, color theory, and animation and use all of those to create compelling effects that wow the player.
Responsibilities
Bring life and excitement to the game through your design and implementation of compelling realistic visual effects.
Create industry-leading and stunning visual effects for our games, cinematic moments
Coordinate with Art, Design and Animation to understand requirements and ensure VFX match the quality bar and vision for the game.
You will implement, polish, and refine your work based on feedback, concept and direction and communicate the best process and technique to the VFX team.
Fix FX related bugs, including performance and budget issues.
Explore, recommend and implement new techniques, tools, and workflows that improve quality and efficiency
Help improve technical pipelines and VFX creation techniques/tools.
Qualifications
5+ years' experience as a real-time FX artist on shipped title or professional projects
Understanding of real-time VFX pipeline
Game Engine Experience (Commercial or Proprietary)
Proficient in crafting high quality, optimized VFX assets for environments, characters, vehicles, gameplay and cinematics in game
Proficient in using Houdini, Maya or any equivalent DCC tools, for 3D authoring and fluid sim packages to generate source textures and models
Understand basic mathematics and physics for 3d rendering and particle control
Sense of lighting, color, form and timing
Both technical and creative with a artistic vision
Bonus:
Worked/Shipped AAA Game Titles
Proficiency in English
Visual effects pipeline build experience
Programming or scripting experience (HLSL, Python, ..etc)
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.
