Description

As a Lighting Artist, you will play a crucial role in shaping the visual atmosphere of the game. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure high-quality lighting in environments and cinematics while tackling production challenges and exploring innovative techniques.

Requirements

• •At least 3 years of experience in AAA game development or credit on at least one AAA title as lighting artist
• •Self-driven, responsible, and detail-oriented
• •Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• •Excellent organizational and time management skills
• •High level of written and spoken English
• •Experience working in a fully remote working environment
• •Strong knowledge of game design and art style
• •Ability to adapt to new technologies
• •Passion for gaming
• •Good understanding of game lighting fundamentals, experience with physically-based rendering pipelines preferred
• •Strong knowledge in lighting pipeline in UE
• •Experience lighting photo-realistic environments and characters with understanding of gameplay implications
• •Knowledge of color theory, cinematography, and strong sense of light and shadow
• •Understanding of node-based workflows, blueprints, and materials inside of UE
• •Understanding of composition and ability to enhance mood by lighting
• •Working knowledge of industry standard rendering concepts and post-processing effects
• •Ability to follow concept/reference and work with a wide range of styles with minimal concept and direction
• •Knowledge of Perforce
• •Familiarity with complex shader networks and techniques, working knowledge of shader languages (i.e. GgFX, HLSL, or Cg) preferred
• •Passion for blockchain and technology

Tasks

• •Define and execute lighting direction for the project
• •Collaborate with tech artists to manage lighting within memory and frame rate limits
• •Assist technical artists and engineers in designing and maintaining lighting pipelines
• •Work with environment teams to light spaces according to production schedules
• •Light game environments and cinematics to AAA quality standards
• •Contribute to the development and placement of visual effects related to lighting
• •Anticipate and identify production challenges for leads and technical artists
• •Research new lighting tools and techniques for efficient and appealing environments

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