Senior Environment Artist - Vegetation in Surrey

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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.

Who you are

• A senior-level vegetation artist with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual quality and technical execution in real-time environments.
• 5+ 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.

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. We empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth. 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. Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer.