Senior Environment Artist - Vegetation
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Graphic and multimedia designers
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£33,400
(£17.13 per hour)
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Description & Requirements
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
Battlefield is a storied franchise renowned for uncompromising combat gameplay and all-out warfare, for over two decades. 100 million players and 5 billion hours played later, Battlefield Studios is defining the future of the first-person shooter with the biggest launch in franchise history with Battlefield 6, and a new era beginning with Battlefield REDSEC.
United under the banner of Battlefield Studios, 4 world-class teams across Criterion, DICE, Motive, and Ripple Effect have come together to focus on the future of the franchise, a connected Battlefield universe filled with immersive experiences built on our unique DNA.
Criterion
At Criterion Games we cherish our rich, award-winning, history of crafting quality games with joy and passion. You’ll find us playing, creating, breathing, and talking games. As we look to the future, we're excited to continue innovating and being part of building the future of Battlefield.
We believe that healthy and engaged teams are the key to building great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and diverse perspectives. Criterion is a place where you can unleash your creativity and be part of something extraordinary. Your unique input is welcome here!
We’re all-in on the future and our most ambitious Battlefield yet. Want to be part of something special? Read on.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Vegetation Artist to join our Environment Art team at Criterion, based either onsite or hybrid in Guildford. Reporting to the Environment Art Director and working with our Lead Environment Artists, you will help create world-class natural environments that feel believable and grounded. You'll collaborate with Vegetation Artists across the wider project to push quality, strengthen the craft, and shape how our worlds look and play.
What You'll Do
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.
Battlefield is a storied franchise renowned for uncompromising combat gameplay and all-out warfare, for over two decades. 100 million players and 5 billion hours played later, Battlefield Studios is defining the future of the first-person shooter with the biggest launch in franchise history with Battlefield 6, and a new era beginning with Battlefield REDSEC.
United under the banner of Battlefield Studios, 4 world-class teams across Criterion, DICE, Motive, and Ripple Effect have come together to focus on the future of the franchise, a connected Battlefield universe filled with immersive experiences built on our unique DNA.
Criterion
At Criterion Games we cherish our rich, award-winning, history of crafting quality games with joy and passion. You’ll find us playing, creating, breathing, and talking games. As we look to the future, we're excited to continue innovating and being part of building the future of Battlefield.
We believe that healthy and engaged teams are the key to building great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and diverse perspectives. Criterion is a place where you can unleash your creativity and be part of something extraordinary. Your unique input is welcome here!
We’re all-in on the future and our most ambitious Battlefield yet. Want to be part of something special? Read on.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Vegetation Artist to join our Environment Art team at Criterion, based either onsite or hybrid in Guildford. Reporting to the Environment Art Director and working with our Lead Environment Artists, you will help create world-class natural environments that feel believable and grounded. You'll collaborate with Vegetation Artists across the wider project to push quality, strengthen the craft, and shape how our worlds look and play.
What You'll Do
- Help shape the vegetation vision for the project, work with Art Directors and Lead Artists to bring our worlds to life.
- Set the quality bar by creating benchmark vegetation assets - from hero trees to ground cover.
- Collaborate with Environment Artists and Level Designers to ensure vegetation supports gameplay, composition, and biome storytelling.
- Help evolve vegetation pipelines, workflows, and best practices.
- Work with Technical Art to balance beauty and performance across platforms.
- Support planning and prioritisation conversations to ensure vegetation is delivered at the right quality and scale.
- Provide feedback, mentorship, and guidance to teammates and external partners.
- Stay curious - exploring new techniques, tools, and ideas that push the vegetation craft forward.
- A senior-level vegetation artist with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual quality and technical execution in real-time environments.
- 7+ years of experience creating high-quality environment or vegetation art for shipped AAA titles.
- Deep knowledge of vegetation workflows - modelling, texturing, shaders, wind, LODs — and tools such as Maya, SpeedTree, Houdini, Substance, and photogrammetry pipelines.
- A solid understanding of optimisation and large-scale world building.
- Someone who enjoys collaborating, sharing knowledge, and raising the bar for the whole team.
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 adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and 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, natio
nal 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.