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VFX Artist

Title: VFX Artist
Location: Shanghai, China
# of openings: 1

EA Shanghai is a highly-engaged content creation team within EA Worldwide Studios. We are creatively driven and focused on high end visual production across multiple genres and art styles. Working with our game team partners around the world, we share a unified passion for creating amazing experiences and industry leading visuals. We are adventurous and creative. We are courageous and we take chances. We seek pioneers who cut new paths and conquer challenges with fierce determination.

What a VFX Artist at EA will do:

• Craft VFX for the game, including but not limited to environments, abilities, combat and cinematic VFX.

• Research and gather reference for VFX solutions and utilize that knowledge in the development of VFX work.

• Work closely with the Lead Artists, Art Directors, and provides creative input specific to assigned tasks.

• Responsible for all technical and aesthetic considerations for the project’s visual effect art style.

• Solid technical abilities to aid in creating new visual effects art pipelines.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years’ experience in the game industry is preferred (or demonstrated equivalent visual effects ability).

• Experience with creating real-time VFX and particles in a game engine (Unreal/Unity/CryEngine…etc).

• Advanced knowledge of most game development tools (Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Perforce, …etc);

• Solid understanding of animation, physical and timing principles.

• Solid understanding of shaders in modern game engines.

• Strong knowledge of animation, compositing and lighting skills that combine to create distinctive, believable VFX.

• Ability to view visual reference of an effect, deconstruct it, and re-create it in a real-time game engine.

• Broad understanding of technical aspects. Crafting with efficiency and being mindful of performance constraints.

• Quickly learn new techniques and adapt to a variety of art and engine related tasks.

• Experience one popular scripting language (Python, C#, …etc.) is a plus.

• Program HLSL, pixel and vertex shaders ability is a plus.

• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

• Good English reading and writing ability is a plus.

• High sense of responsibility, team work, self-motivation and passion.

• Honest, integrity, and flexible approach to work with persistent attitude.

在EA，特效师会做哪些工作：

• 为游戏制作特效，包括但不限于环境特效，技能特效，战斗特效和过场动画特效。

• 研究和收集特效相关解决方案的参考资料，并将这些知识用于特效工作的研发和制作中。

• 与各美术部门和美术总监密切合作，为指定的任务的提供创造性的意见和建议。

• 负责项目视觉效果的所有相关技术和美术风格考虑。

• 扎实的技术功底，帮助创造新的视觉效果和美术流程。

你需要具备哪些条件：

• 5 年以上游戏行业特效工作经验优先（或具有其他同等特效师工作经验，例如：影视特效， CG动画特效等）

• 具有在游戏引擎（ Unreal/Unity/CryEngine 等）中创建实时特效的经验。

• 熟悉大多数游戏开发工具（ Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Perforce 等）

• 扎实地理解动画，物理和节奏的原理。

• 扎实地理解现代游戏引擎中材质的原理。

• 具有丰富的动画知识，灯光和合成技巧，能结合实际创造独特的，可信的视觉特效。

• 能够理解视觉参考，解构它，并在实时的游戏引擎中重新创建它。

• 对技术方面有广泛的理解，注重高效制作并能注意性能限制。

• 具有快速学习新技术的能力，适应各种美术风格和引擎相关的任务。

• 有一种流行的脚本语言（ Python, C#, 等） 经验者优先。

• 有编写 HLSL, pixel and vertex shaders 能力者是加分项。

• 良好的沟通和解决问题的能力。

• 良好的英语读写能力优先。

• 高度的责任感，团队合作精神，自我激励精神，以及对特效工作的热情。

• 为人诚实正直，有灵活的工作方式和坚持不懈的工作态度。