Studio: Stellar Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior Lighting Artist
Location: Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create AAA quality lighting for engaging game experiences
- Working with technical art and engineering to deliver world class and innovative techniques
- Work with production to plan lighting work and dependencies
- Optimise lighting content for memory and performance while retaining visual quality
- Be aware of potential risks to the project and bring it to the attention of management
- Collaboration with the team to decide on the best working practices
- Provide feedback and advice to team members on the project
- Collaborate with tech art and graphics engineers on materials/shaders, shadows, anti-aliasing and other image quality issues
Working with Art Director/Creative Director to create a distinctive look that supports gameplay
Qualifications & Skills:
- An impressive portfolio demonstrating your skills and achievements
- Experience creating real-time dynamic and baked lighting, grading and other post fx, all with an eye on image quality and performance
- Lighting experience in UE4 (or similar game engine)
- Experience in industry standard art tools such as required 3DS Max/Maya, Photoshop
- Photography experience shooting lighting reference, HDRI/IBL as needed
- Working knowledge of art creation workflow, asset exporting and data driven pipelines
- Worked as a lead on at least 2x AAA games or 4x feature films with examples of work in portfolio
- Experience managing and training a team of lighting artists
- Experience in real-time lighting
