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Technical Animator - Dragon Age

Multiple Locations: Edmonton, AB, Canada • Vancouver, BC, Canada • Toronto, ON, Canada • Montreal, QC, Canada • Austin, TX, USA

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Requisition Number: 172441

Position Title: Technical Artist 2

External Description:

Technical Animator 

At BioWare, our mission is to create worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire you to become the hero of your story.  Our teams inspire creativity using tech and tools such as the Frostbite engine and work with thousands of developers across EA’s network of studios.  We are passionate about games and their potential as a creative medium to reach and inspire people through emotion, artistry, and engaging storytelling. If you share this passion, this is an amazing opportunity to help shape the next generation of gaming.

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Responsibilities:

  • Independently drive multiple key features for technical animation, including runtime systems, physics/ragdoll, and facial animation R&D and implementation
  • Lead communication efforts related to assigned features, including reaching out to external partners as needed, and clearly describing the needs of the project
  • Develop and maintain animation tools and pipelines
  • Prototype and implement procedural animation systems such as facial animation, destruction, cloth, and hair
  • Collaborate with the design, character art, animation, and outsourcing teams
  • Debugging and support of animation systems and tools

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of technical animation experience
  • Experience in rigging and skinning assets
  • Experience with python or C++
  • A demonstrable understanding of animation principles and anatomy
  • Experience with motion capture and retargeting
  • Proficient with standard industry tools such as Autodesk Maya
  • Excellent problem solving skills. The candidate must be able to quickly identify issues and resolve them. 
  • Collaborative team player with strong cross-group communication skills
  • Excellent decision making capabilities
  • Demonstrates dependability and commitment to projects/tasks

Portfolio:

  • All submissions must include a portfolio showing personal and/or professional artwork

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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: 189

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

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.

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