Senior Lighter - EA Sports FC

About the Organization: EA is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with nearly 30 years of innovation, passion, and the connection of millions of global players to their favorite IPs. We are assembling a team with the purpose of constructing an innovative and immersive gaming experience. This is your opportunity to join our new team and to shape the future of interactive entertainment.

About our team: We are starting a new team composed of EA/EA SPORTS experts and new talent from across industries. With some of the world's most valuable IPs and all of EA's resources, we have the capabilities to deliver amazing new experiences to a broader audience of players than ever before.

About the role: Lighters create atmosphere and enhance realism, tone, and depth in a scene. Using their craft, lighters balance visual elements, enabling the team to create convincing images and environments.

Your Responsibilities:

As a Senior Lighter, you will use your technical skill as well as your aesthetic ability to create images that not only look good but are optimized for performance. You will ensure there is consistency in lighting, color balance, and mood between the various elements, shots and scenes in the game. Where appropriate, you will ensure the CG looks photorealistic. You will be expected to respect and follow an established design theme for a sequence or project. You will be able to refer to the relevant production designs and apply that visual style as faithfully as possible, taking care to maintain continuity throughout the scene and game.

Your Qualifications

• At least 6+ years of AAA games production experience.

• Possess solid artistic skills, including a thorough understanding of color theory, composition, light, and form.

• Experience with a 3D CG package (e.g., Maya, Mental Ray),

• Demonstrated understanding of rendering, lighting, shading networks, polygonal modeling, and texture UV's.

• Lighters should also understand the characteristics of light and how it is simulated in a CG environment

• Able to work from reference materials, identifying and translating key lighting details into applicable information

• Should be able to light-moderate to complex interior and exterior scenes.

• Experience with film, photography or theater lighting is a plus.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.