Our studio is committed to inspiring the world to play, delivering immersive experiences, and promoting a diverse, inclusive, and positive culture. You will guide the development of rendering workflows and mentor others, making a real impact on our iconic franchise.

Responsibilities: Implement, and maintain high-quality shaders for our proprietary engine and 3ds Max, improving visual fidelity across characters, environments, and vehicles. Collaborate with rendering engineers and artists to prototype and integrate new visual features, ensuring consistency and performance across all asset types. Support us by debugging rendering issues, refining material setups, and ensuring visual parity between DCC tools and in-engine results. Mentor artists and junior technical artists, sharing your expertise in shader creation and rendering workflows to help us grow our team's capabilities.

Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience with a digital content creation package such as 3ds Max or Maya, including asset integration for real-time projects. Experience writing, debugging, and improving shaders using HLSL (or GLSL) for game engines and DCC tools. Solid understanding of real-time rendering principles, including PBR workflows, lighting models, and post-processing, demonstrated in shipped game titles or equivalent projects. Basic scripting knowledge in Python or MAXScript, with experience supporting workflow automation and material authoring using Substance Painter/Designer.

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We're seeking an Environment Artist to join our team at EA Sports UFC. As an Environment Artist, you will be responsible for creating high-quality, visually stunning environments that bring the world of MMA to life.

What You'll Do

• Create high-quality benchmark content, from hero assets to fully realized arenas and fight spaces
• Build cinematic, physically authentic environments that enhance gameplay and presentation
• Translate concept art and real-world reference into modular, production-ready assets
• Execute high-poly to low-poly workflows with strong optimization awareness
• Craft realistic PBR materials, including authoring your own materials when needed
• Collaborate closely with Art Direction, Lighting, Design, VFX, Tech Art, and Engineering

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience in Film, entertainment or relevant industries
• Strong proficiency in Maya
• Experience working in modern game engines (Unreal, Frostbite, Unity, or similar)
• Advanced skills in Substance Painter
• Experience with ZBrush and Photoshop
• Understanding of realistic PBR workflows

Nice to Have

• Substance Designer, Houdini, Terrain tools (World Machine), After Effects, scripting knowledge, matte painting/image manipulation experience

Artistic & Creative Strength

• High Quality high poly modelling and materials
• Ability to create believable physical wear, surface breakup, and environmental storytelling
• Exceptional eye for lighting, composition, scale, and material realism
• Strong sense of cinematic presentation and broadcast authenticity

Ownership & Collaboration

• Ability to own and drive features independently with environment and team support when needed
• Proactive communicator with leads and teammates
• Self-organized, capable of tracking tasks and delivering on schedule

Mindset

• Positive, consistent, and adaptable
• Passionate about your craft and pushing visual quality
• Open to feedback and continuous improvement
• Curious, growth-oriented, and proactive in solving challenges

Portfolio

• High-fidelity environment work with strong material execution
• Examples demonstrating ownership from concept to final
• Cinematic composition and believability

Pay Transparency - North America

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

PAY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $91,100 - $126,900 CAD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

For Canada, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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You will collaborate closely with Art Directors, Tech Artists, and Animators to bring characters to life in modern game engines.

Key Responsibilities

• Create high-quality 3D characters (realistic or stylized) from concept to final in game asset
• Sculpt detailed anatomy and forms using ZBrush with strong understanding of human and creature anatomy
• Creating cloths using Marvelous designer and strong understanding of cloth folds
• Produce game-ready topology, UVs, and optimized meshes
• Texture characters using Substance Painter / Designer, including skin, fabrics, armor, and props
• Work with scan data / Texture XYZ maps for realistic head likeness and skin detailing
• Create and place hair cards (or groom-based hair where applicable) with attention to realism and performance is a plus.
• Ensure assets meet technical constraints (polycount, texture budgets, LODs)
• Integrate characters into game engines (Unreal / Unity) and troubleshoot visual issues
• Collaborate with rigging, animation, and tech art teams to ensure smooth deformation and performance

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of human anatomy, proportions, and facial structure
• Expert proficiency in ZBrush, Maya/Blender, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer
• Experience with realistic head likeness matching
• Solid understanding of PBR workflows
• Experience creating hair cards and understanding hair shading
• Knowledge of AAA game pipelines and real-time asset creation
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of character assets
• Strong eye for detail, form, and material definition

Good to Have

• Experience on shipped AAA titles
• Familiarity with photogrammetry workflows
• Basic understanding of rigging and skinning requirements
• Experience with Unreal Engine character setup
• Creature or stylized character experience

What We’re Looking For

• A senior-level, hands-on artist (not a lead or people manager)
• Someone who can own characters end-to-end and deliver consistently high quality
• Strong problem-solver with a collaborative mindset
• Passion for games and character storytelling

Portfolio Requirement

Applicants must submit a strong portfolio showcasing:

• Realistic or stylized game-ready characters
• Head likeness work
• High-quality texturing and hair work

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90-day success looks like

Within your first 90 days, you'll work effectively and efficiently in UE5, or quickly ramp up in a proprietary engine and deliver high-quality work within its constraints. You'll deliver a set of polished, shippable environment content (a modular kit, hero set, or key scene slice) that matches the project's art direction and performance targets. You'll establish trust as a senior: provide clear feedback, create reusable examples/templates, and improve team consistency and throughput. You'll identify environment risks early (scope, workflow gaps, perf constraints) and propose practical solutions with Art Direction, Tech Art, and Production.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Create high-quality environment assets and scenes (architecture, organic environment, kits, hero props, set dressing) built for real-time performance.
• Drive material quality: trim sheets, tileables, layered materials, vertex blends, and reusable material functions as appropriate.
• Own scene/asset optimization: LOD strategy, streaming considerations, draw calls, memory, lightmap constraints, and platform targets.
• Lead execution for a small pod or strike team: break down tasks, set short-term priorities, and keep deliverables moving.
• Provide reviews and mentorship: actionable notes, paintovers/blockouts as needed, and consistent standards for “definition of done.”
• Collaborate cross-discipline (Design, Lighting, Tech Art, Engineering) to ensure environments support gameplay readability and performance.
• Support client-facing communication when needed: clarify requirements, share WIP, align on standards, and reduce rework through early alignment.
• Contribute to pipeline/process improvements: naming conventions, template scenes, kit documentation, and onboarding guides.

Requirements

• Minimum 8-years of professional game industry experience with at least one shipped title.
• Experience working with industry standard tools such as Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, etc
• Proven experience shipping or delivering real-time environment work in Unreal Engine 4 or 5.
• Strong environment art fundamentals: composition, mood, scale, material definition, and cohesion.
• Strong modeling skills (architectural/modular, hard-surface, and organic); solid UV and baking fundamentals.
• Strong texturing/material skills (Photoshop + Substance Painter; Designer/trim workflows strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated optimization knowledge (LODs, texel density, streaming, draw calls, memory budgets).
• Leadership-level communication: clear written and verbal updates, actionable feedback, strong collaboration habits.
• Experience mentoring or guiding other artists (formal lead title not required, but leadership behaviors are).
• Can work Central (CT) core hours with possible overlap hours with Pacific (PT) or Eastern (ET).
• Work options are flexible: remote / hybrid / onsite.

Nice-to-have

• Houdini experience (procedural kits, scattering, tools).
• Foliage/organic workflows (SpeedTree, ZBrush, photogrammetry).
• Lighting/post-process experience (can support look targets and debug scene issues).
• Experience owning a small slice of a level/biome from planning to delivery.
• Comfort working across stylized and realistic pipelines; strong reference analysis skills.
• Scripting/tooling familiarity (Python, editor scripting, or simple pipeline automation).

Portfolio requirements

Your portfolio must include:

• Real-time environments showing strong composition, material definition, and scene cohesion.
• Evidence of production thinking: modularity, reuse, consistency, and optimization awareness.
• At least one in-engine example (video walkthrough or gameplay capture preferred).
• Bonus (strongly preferred): evidence of leadership impact—mentorship examples, consistent kits built across multiple assets, documentation/templates, or before/after improvements.

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