VFX Intern

Electronic Arts is seeking a VFX Intern to join the Apex Legends team. As a VFX Intern, you will learn to create high-quality, real-time VFX for one of the world's premier live-service shooters.

Responsibilities:

• Support VFX creation for character, weapons, environmental elements, and seasonal content
• Collaborate with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to ensure VFX supports gameplay clarity and integrates smoothly into the game
• Work directly within the game engine and proprietary tools to prototype, implement, and iterate on VFX assets
• Balance visual quality with performance constraints, assisting with basic performance profiling and optimization
• Participate in art reviews, gather feedback from leads, and iterate on your work to meet the studio's quality bar

Qualifications:

• Working towards a bachelor's degree in Real-Time VFX, Game Art, Animation, Computer Graphics, or a related field
• Strong sense of aesthetics, composition, color theory, and timing as they apply to VFX
• Basic hands-on experience or familiarity with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, etc.
• Some experience implementing assets or working with particle systems in game engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary editors
• Comfortable receiving feedback, iterating on your work, and working alongside artists, designers, and engineers in a collaborative environment
• Curious, analytical approach to troubleshooting VFX issues and working within the technology of the pipeline
• Passionate gamer with an interest in first-person shooters and sci-fi art styles

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being support
• Personalized benefits packages tailored to local needs, which may include medical insurance, mental wellness support, pension plan, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more

Duration: Full-time paid internship in the summer of 2027, lasting 12 weeks