# Senior Technical Artist (Rigging)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

As a Senior Technical Artist (Rigging) at EA SPORTS Technology, you will collaborate with Art Directors, Development Directors, Artists, and Engineers to achieve high-fidelity deformation content for EA Sports games.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve high-fidelity deformation content

- Refine and improve workflows to tackle technical challenges and increase efficiency

- Leverage common technology and implement techniques to solve character animation and deformation challenges

- Partner with leadership to implement new initiatives and mentor newer artists

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of games production experience working in technical art/rigging/animation

- Bachelor's degree in a related field

- Expert knowledge of designing complex skeletons, control rigs, secondary animation, and skin deformations

- Strong understanding of human anatomy and animation principles

- In-depth expertise with relevant 3D software packages such as Maya and Houdini

- Experience with asset optimization challenges and real-time limitations specific to character deformation

- Proficient scripting/programming in Python (C++/C# a bonus)

- Willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems

- Experience working with content-driven game engines (e.g., Unreal, Unity, Frostbite) desired

- Passion for games!

The team works onsite at EA Vancouver (Burnaby office) and requires 3 days of onsite work per week. This is a 12-month contract with the possibility of longer-term employment.

The salary range for this position is $122,300 - $170,700 CAD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Maya
- Houdini
- Python
- C++
- C#
- Unreal
- Unity
- Frostbite
- technical art
- rigging
- animation
- character deformation

### Nice to have
- cinematic experience
- game engines

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