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Lighting Artist - Sledgehammer Games Guildford (UK)

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Our lighting team is growing! We are looking for a lighting artist to support our continued studio growth in Guildford, UK. Collaborating with our engineering and art teams, you will collaborate with global teams using some of the best tech in the industry to develop award winning titles.

Your Mission

As our newest teammate, you will work side by side with our Lighting Lead. Together, you will help implement some of the most awe-inspiring landscapes in video games. We will accomplish this through consistent communication, collaboration and execution.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Crafting game-play and cinematic lighting based on direction from the Art Director and Lighting Lead for campaign and multiplayer.
• Ensuring a high level of quality while maintaining a full production load.
• Ensuring that lighting assets meet runtime and disk budgeting requirements.
• Anticipating, identify, and reporting any potential production problems and communicating those to the Lead.
• Collaborating with environment, character, and VFX art teams.
• Maintain an efficient organisational structure for all lighting assets.
• Staying current with industry lighting techniques.

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent art portfolio.
• 3+ years’ experience in a lighting role.
• Solid understanding of lighting fundamentals.
• Knowledge of colour theory and strong sense of light and shadow.
• Understanding of composition and the ability to improve mood with lighting.
• Effective use Colour Grading and Post Effects to improve the final image.
• Solid understanding of industry standard rendering concepts and processes.
• An eye for precision.
• Solid understanding of crafting lighting within a pre-baked light-map pipeline.
• Unreal, Unity, or other Proprietary Engines.

Extra Points:

• Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages.
• Experience with PBR & HDR lighting.
• Knowledge of photography principals and image correction techniques.
• Experience playing Call of Duty or Similar First-Person-Shooters.

Your Platform

We are situated in the San Francisco Bay Area; Melbourne, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and Guildford, UK. Across our four locations, we strive to be the most inclusive and encouraging game studio we can be.

We are very passionate about working together to make incredible AAA games for our players to enjoy and connect with. We’re the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. With elite audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we’ve been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry.

The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We truly believe in supporting our dedicated employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker. We think it’s important to be constantly evolving, innovating, and doing things differently – which are some of the most exciting aspects of game development. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we’re looking for passionate game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favourite social media platform. Want to hear what it’s like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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