Senior Visual 3D Artist (12 Months)

Location: Redwood City, CA, USA

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Requisition Number: 164736

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

We’re Electronic Arts’ Marketing, Commercial, and Positive Play Organization (MCP). Our teams build meaningful relationships with hundreds of millions of players around the world who love our games. We aim to be the best at meeting players where they are and supporting them throughout their EA journey. Our teams develop the strategic vision of our games; execute multi-channel campaigns; build global engagement; develop global insights; and we accelerate sales and publishing efforts worldwide. Most importantly, we do all of this by understanding – and celebrating – the diversity of our players, so we can deliver the content they want when and where they want it.

EA's Marketing Communication Design Team's mission is to ignite players' imaginations through world-class design strategy and craftsmanship. We are a multidisciplinary creative team responsible for branding and visual identity, graphic design, digital media design, and motion graphics. Reporting to the Lead Designer, the Visual 3D Artist will provide hands-on support and development of assets of the visual brand identity and design system for digital/print channel executions supporting our franchise marketing campaigns that span across the whole product life cycle.

You will partner with the Art Director or Senior Designer to ensure the visual identity represents our game values, resonates with our audiences, and establishes a unique look and tone. As a 3D Artist, you will lead in the design and creation of 3D elements that impacts EA’s outward facing marketing strategy as well as in-game experiences.

Responsibilities:

Concept and create world-class visual assets that can help strengthen the overall visual system to support all marketing and promotional campaigns. The visual system exploration includes the 2D/3D rendering of logos and typography, 3D illustrations, graphic elements, textures, VFX effects, and possible motion-based solutions
Partner with the art directors and senior designers to create work that unifies the marketing strategy, game vision, and design system
Inspire and partner in the creative development of specific visual systems to ensure consistency across executions
Understand and support a unified visual language and conceptual thinking behind creating beautiful designs that work and interpret creative feedback and data into iterative visuals
Push visuals forward, ahead of industry trends
Ensure consistency and quality benchmarks are met in execution
Ensure that creative complies with the brand, platform, licensor guidelines and industry-standard specs
Work in a hands-on environment that requires flexibility, imagination, a can-do attitude, a sense of fun, and the desire to learn and grow

Qualifications:

6+ years’ experience creating 2D and 3D assets from scratch or existing materials
Basic or practical knowledge of branding, video, and digital design
Excellent composition/framing skills and sense of scale, timing, detail, form, texture and color.
Experience with Photoshop and Illustrator
Experience with either After Effects, Cinema4D, Maya, 3D Studio Max or similar technologies
You communicate complex concepts through sketches or visuals and illustrate the meaning behind the creative process.
You bring a fresh perspective while working within the brand and project parameters, developing ideas from concept to execution
You love receiving and applying feedback and are comfortable making changes
You can juggle multiple projects within tight deadlines

Portfolio Review:

We want to see how you create!

You will be assessed on your portfolio as part of the hiring process. Please be sure to attach a link in your resume or upload a PDF labeled as your portfolio. Please provide as many examples of the following:

Ability effects (e.g. cast, projectile, impact)
Environmental effects (e.g. smoke, fire, clouds, water, steam, and explosions)
Cinematic effects

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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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.

Days Open: 19

Can this position be remote?: 1

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