Senior Lighting Artist

Your mission

• Setting the mood, atmosphere and implement lighting for all game environments (indoor, outdoor, cinematic) in compliance with art direction and technical specifications.
• Closely cooperate with level designers to ensure optimal player guidance.
• Setup and improve lighting pipelines from preproduction to the final product.
• Plan and coordinate your work regularly with your team, communicating effectively to ensure transparency and deliver tasks on time.
• Contribute innovative and original ideas towards optimizing lighting and look development for the production.
• Documentation and communication of technical and process guidelines for lighting creation and implementation.

Your profile

• Experience as a lighting artist or closely related role in game development typically gained over 4+ years.
• Understanding of art fundamentals, e.g. the function of form, light behaviour, color, proportions, and shape.
• Great knowledge and use of real-time lighting techniques incl. topics like: Baked Lighting, Physically Accurate Lighting, Exposure, Atmosphere & (Volumetric) Fogging, Skyboxes/domes, Post Processing, IES Lighting Profiles, etc.
• Familiarity with HDR & physically-based rendering (PBR) workflows.
• Portfolio showcasing a range of lighting setups and visual effects in various digital environments and on characters.
• Enthusiastic team player with a great passion for games & English on a proficient level.

Bonus points for

• Experience with mobile and/or VR development.
• Understanding of modern materials and shaders and being able to create these.
• Understanding and being able to create blueprint logic in Unreal Engine.
• Experience and understanding of environment building (Unreal Engine preferred) & 3D asset creation.
• Background in photography, filmography or traditional art.

We offer

• A company culture that values a healthy work-life balance.
• A hybrid working model with three office days per week.
• 26 standard vacation days with an option to buy 5 more.
• Free commuting with public transport to and from the office.
• Free pension plan.
• A healthy lunch in our canteen.
• Group activities and Thursday afternoon drinks.
• The latest VR hardware and titles which you can borrow and take home.
• Whilst working from home we provide all the relevant hardware, budget for a desk and chair and a contribution toward your energy costs.