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Hard Surface Artist

As a Hard Surface Artist you will work as part of the experienced Apex External Development team. This is a creative role where you will hone your leadership and creative skills, as you guide and support our external partner teams to achieve visual excellence for the content and experiences we create for Apex Legends. Guided by the OS Art lead, you will conduct reviews and provide clear feedback and direction to our creative partners.

Reporting to the project DD, you will work with the OS Art Lead, External Development Art Director, team leads and Technical Artists to help push quality and new ideas, and to help guide process, tools and training for our external partners.

You will be a part of EA Create, a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to achieve outstanding visuals, audio and technology. 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 are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

Committed to supporting our games with the creation of amazing Content, the EA Create Worlds team enriches players’ experience with environments and a variety of hard-surface assets such as vehicles, props and weapons.

Responsibilities:

• Content reviews and feedback, ensuring content quality meets targets
• Finalize content to ensure quality requirements are met
• Integrate external content into the game engine
• Create hard surface briefs and packages
• Participate in relevant art review meetings
• Able to travel to partner studios or OS vendors on multi-week visits to kick off the engagement, train external artists, and to learn from and collaborate with the game team
• Work with multiple studio Art Directors and Leads to understand the content vision, direction, and quality expectations

Qualifications:

• Intermediate artist with Lead Art aspirations and 3 or more years 3D production experience in Hard Surface asset work (Character knowledge is also a benefit)
• Understanding of industry standard 3D applications and general workflows Example: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter - High poly, Low poly, UV and texturing practices
• Able to understand and explain WGLL (What Good Looks Like) from a Respawn perspective on Art Direction and Design
• Great communicator with people within the studios and multiple locations
• Able to quickly learn EA Create best practices - including providing feedback in Shotgun
• Able to effectively set up briefs and organize packages for external partners
• Able to provide feedback for hard surface work, and also some character related work
• Able to adapt to new engines and tools
• Able to travel domestically and internationally
• Above all, we need someone who works well with others, as this will be a collaborative role
• Familiarity with full production from concept ideation through final modeling and integration.

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