# VFX Intern

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Madison, Wisconsin
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: internship
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

As a VFX Intern on the Apex Legends team, you will learn what it takes to create high-quality, real-time VFX for one of the world's premier live-service shooters.

Under the guidance of our senior artists, you will:

- Support VFX Creation: Help create and implement real-time VFX for character, weapons, environmental elements, and seasonal content that fit the intense sci-fi aesthetic of Apex Legends.

- Collaborate Across Disciplines: Partner with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to ensure your VFX support gameplay clarity and integrate smoothly into the game.

- Learn Engine Implementation: Work directly within our game engine and proprietary tools to prototype, implement, and iterate on VFX assets.

- Optimize and Profile: Learn to balance visual quality with performance constraints, assisting with basic performance profiling and optimization.

- Review and Iterate: Actively participate in art reviews, gather feedback from leads, and iterate on your work to meet the studio's quality bar.

Qualifications:

- Academic Endeavors: Working towards a bachelors degree in Real Time VFX, Game Art, Animation, Computer Graphics, or a related academic program.

- Foundational Art Skills: A strong sense of aesthetics, composition, color theory, and timing as they apply to VFX.

- Tool Familiarity: Basic hands-on experience or familiarity with relevant DCC tools (such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, etc).

- Game Engine Exposure: Some experience implementing assets or working with particle systems (like Niagara or Cascade) in game engines like Unreal Engine, Unity, or proprietary editors.

- Collaborative Mindset: Comfort receiving feedback, iterating on your work, and working alongside artists, designers, and engineers in a collaborative environment.

- Problem-Solving Spirit: A curious, analytical approach to troubleshooting VFX issues and working within the technology of our pipeline.

- Passionate Gamer: A genuine passion for playing and making games, with an interest in first-person shooters and sci-fi art styles.

You must be available for a full-time paid internship in the summer of 2027.

## Skills

### Required
- Real Time VFX
- Game Art
- Animation
- Computer Graphics
- Maya
- Houdini
- Photoshop
- Unreal Engine
- Unity

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