# Technical Artist - Character

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world.

As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity.

The Technical Artist - Character reports to the Technical Art Lead and partners with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality player and character visuals. This role focuses on character rendering, shaders, character scanning workflows, and animation integration to support realistic and performant character experiences.

**Responsibilities**

- Partner with Character Artists, Animators, and Engineers to deliver high-quality player and character content.

- Develop and optimize character shaders, materials, skin rendering, hair rendering, and visual effects within the game engine.

- Support character scanning workflows, including scan processing, asset integration, and visual quality validation.

- Collaborate with Animation teams on character setup, deformation quality, motion capture integration, and runtime implementation.

- Improve character production pipelines, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency and content quality.

- Troubleshoot character rendering, animation, and asset integration issues throughout development.

- Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve character creation and production efficiency.

**Qualifications**

- 3+ years of Technical Artist experience in game development.

- Strong understanding of character art production pipelines and real-time character rendering.

- Experience creating and optimizing character shaders, materials, and rendering workflows.

- Experience working with game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.

- Proficiency in Python, Lua, or similar scripting languages.

- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

- Effective communication and collaboration skills across Art and Engineering teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience shipping AAA, mobile, or live service games.

- Experience supporting facial scanning, photogrammetry, or digital human workflows.

- Experience working with facial rigs, character rigging, skinning, or deformation systems.

- Experience integrating motion capture data and animation systems into production pipelines.

- Knowledge of player likeness creation and character authenticity workflows.

- Familiarity with AI-assisted content creation, automation, or production workflows.

- Passion for football games and player presentation.

**Benefits** We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- character art production pipelines
- real-time character rendering
- character shaders
- materials
- skin rendering
- hair rendering
- visual effects
- game engines
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Python
- Lua
- scripting languages
- problem-solving
- debugging

### Nice to have
- facial scanning
- photogrammetry
- digital human workflows
- facial rigs
- character rigging
- skinning
- deformation systems
- motion capture data
- animation systems
- player likeness creation
- character authenticity workflows
- AI-assisted content creation
- automation
- production workflows

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