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Character Technical Artist

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a global leader in interactive entertainment. We develop and deliver games, content and online services across platforms. We have a broad portfolio of brands that span the most popular genres.

Finding great talent and supporting our studios to be the best place for people to make a difference is central to our philosophy. This is the principle behind our newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on open-world action-adventure games and pioneering next-generation emergent storytelling. Join us to pursue your passion to build unique, groundbreaking and inclusive games that empower players to create incredible stories of heroic adventure. Become a foundational part of respectful and diverse team as we are looking for a Character Technical Artist to join our team.

Reporting to the Director of Technical Art you will focus on animation and character pipelines and workflows, helping us build an ambitious AAA open world action RPG with an emphasis on procedural narratives. The Character Technical Artist will collaborate with the team's Directors and Leads to help the procedural characters and stories come to life focusing on the latest character pipelines.

Your responsibilities include:

• You will research state-of-the-art technologies around modern character and animation pipelines.
• You will work with the Technical Directors and Leads, building the tools to support a robust character art pipeline.
• Working with the procedural presentation team on in-game implementation, you will be iterating on and polishing the runtime character and animation systems.
• You will Identify the needs around art team personnel and content resources based on initial prototyping and execution of the character art and animation pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience, with experience on a AAA title, with a focus on character and animation pipelines
• Experience with modern real-time engines and their constraints.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don't match every qualification listed above. Let us know why this role appeals to you, why you will be great, what unique perspectives you will bring, and which requirements will challenge you to grow.

We love to celebrate our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, of course, free video games and more!