EA DICE Multiple roles

[Evert]

Hello everybody.

Don't think I saw this posted anywhere on the boards, might be interesting for some people :derp:

Plenty of positions open at DICE.

I copied the stuff most relevant for this forum here, more details and positions + instructions on how to apply can be viewed at http://dice.se/hiring.asp

Level Artist

Required skillset

- An ability to think in 3D

- Drawings/sketches that display basic skills as well as any modeling and texture work related to objects, buildings, natural terrain, etc.

- Excellent sense of form, weight (mass), and volume

- Good use of light and shadow

- Breadth of artistic styles

- An understanding of optimization

- Excellent sense of scale and level of finish

It is required that you have experience with 3D Software such as Maya.

Personal qualities

High commitment to deadlines with ability to set realistic time estimates for own work

Proactive and driven

An excellent eye for detail and focus on delivering the very best quality

Team player and good collaboration skills

Senior Level Artist

Work task examples

• Lighting

• World Sculpting

• Modelling and texturing of world objects

• Object placing

• Visual Effects placing and adjustments

• Implement 3D objects to Game Engine

• Generating screenshots

• Shader and animation setup

• Destruction generation and setup

• Visual tweaks both on 3D meshes and 2D textures

• Technical tweaks on shaders, 3D mesh and 2D textures

• Deliver outsourcing briefs and feedback to outsourcing partners

• Assist Level Art Director both visually, technically and with problem solving (a mixture of artistic/technical solutions in practice).

Discipline Skills

• Maya skills

o 3D modelling, Hard Surface and organic

• VFX knowledge and understanding

• Level Design understanding and knowledge

• Dramaturgic and storytelling understanding and knowledge

• Photoshop skills

o Texturing

o 2D art (UI/Menu elements)

• UV-mapping

• Composition

• Lighting

• Chromatics

Soft Skills

• Feedback

o Be able to act on feedback, turn delta feedback into positive result.

o Openly seed feedback and input on work

o Be able to find solutions to high level feedback.

o Constructively give feedback to leads. Should look out for and raise serious concerns regarding any aspect of production or leadership within the project.

• Planning

o Deliver on time and to the right quality

o Set realistic time estimates for own work.

o Understand dependencies

• Drive

o Motivated & Committed

o Proactive and take ownership

o Possibly have responsibility of a certain aspect of the levels (rocks, buildings etc).

o Is expected to be able to identify and prioritize quality concerns and valuable polish areas within the levels.

• Culture

o Positive

o Team player

• Reliability

o Always deliver what he/she has agreed upon.

o Deliver according to AD's and TAD's without detailed feedback

• Industry knowledge

o Know common practices

o Understands industry trends

o Updated on industry news

• Coaching

o Working with peers (Level Artists) to coach them to become stronger artists

o Responsible for other people to deliver on time with the right quality

Senior Mission Designer

Responsibilities

Be part of a creative process with the Lead Designer, other designers and other disciplines

Work with an interdisciplinary team to best realize the vision of missions

Participate in discussions, give honest feedback on colleagues work

Be an advocate for the player experience, influence and shape it as it forms

Be relentless about quality

Communicate with all disciplines to increase quality both on your missions and on anything you feel could be better

Use proprietary 3D toolset/work alongside artists to best create your mission experience

Use a visual scripting system to craft the experience of your maps

Care about creating compelling pacing, variety, and drama as well

Create appropriate enemy placement, composition, timing, and line of sight for a given scenario

Qualifications

At least one shipped AAA title responsible for creating compelling pacing, variety, and drama

FPS experience

Experienced with 3D art, scripting and game creation tools (Maya, Unreal, etc)

Great communication skills; in presenting and writing

Ability to work creatively in a dynamic and quality driven work environment

Battlefield fan/knowledge a plus but not a requirement

3+ years of industry experience

[Minos]

Very nice, do you know the applying period for these positions?

[Synthesizer]

I had totally forgotten we were hiring...

Btw, for some reason prop artists are called Technical Artists at Dice, figured I'd add this here, even though it's just temporary positions we're looking for.

Technical Artist

EA Digital Illusions is looking for excellent Technical Artists to join our teams in Stockholm.

You will be working as a Technical Artist in one of our next-gen project teams with technically advanced 3d graphics. Primary responsibilities will be to compose and model the graphic part of the levels for current and future games at DICE. As an Artist at DICE you will work closely with other team members and with the Art Director of the team so if you have that experience it’s an advantage. DICE will give you the possibility to grow as an artist and eventually take more advanced working tasks and bigger responsibilities.

[Rick_D]

apply minos, apply now

[Nysuatro]

Yeah, I saw the application for Technical Artist. I was a bit surprised to see what the job description was.

Too bad, working at EA Dice sounded really awesome

[ShadoW_]

Are you looking for people to work remotely too?

[Evert]

ShadoW I doubt we have people working remotely at all, not very common at all I guess with larger studios. But shoot a mail to the adress on the jobs page, but I doubt it

Minos I have no idea what the period for this is, but as usual with this industry you are probably best of applying even for positions not listed, good people are always good people

[ShadoW_]

Hehe, I just thought so. Actually I have a job already, but it's always worth to ask, I'm doing some remote work from time to time.

[e-freak]

Only seeing the Ea profile thing and don't wanna sign up there. Isn't there some kind of jobs@ mail address?

[Puddy]

If there is, they are very sneaky about it...

If you use the EA Jobs thing, be sure to upload your CV and application bundled as one file and make sure you upload the right file. You only get to upload one file and there a 24h delay before you can replace it -_-

I have applied but not for a designer position. QA fo sho...