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Senior Lighting / Lookdev Artist

Location: Work from home or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

Level: Senior and above

About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.

Your Role: Working closely with art and tech teams to provide creative and innovative solutions to lighting and lookdev issues across the studio.

• You will be a key part of developing a coherent lighting and lookdev pipeline to unify approach and technique across the studio.
  
• Using knowledge of real world lighting methods alongside game engine optimisation techniques, you will set atmosphere and direct attention for both gameplay and cinematic content, ensuring it is high quality and performant.
• You will also play a key role in testing and developing the studios use of next generation lighting in Unreal 5 and how it interacts with continuing material development.

Requirements

Your Skill:

• A technical minded person with a creative way of solving lighting and lookdev challenges and issues within engine.
• Prior knowledge of cinematography principles, lighting and colour theory, with the enthusiasm and ability to use this effectively in a real-time environment.
• A passion for real-time is essential, along with the desire and ability to bring film-quality to our in-game assets. This is a highly collaborative environment, the ability to work with other departments to resolve technical and creative challenges is key.

Your Experience:

• Real-time cinematic lighting, baked/dynamic lighting and lighting/shading optimisation using modern game engines is essential.
• Experience as a lighting/lookdev artist for film/TV or high-end real-time applications is desirable but not essential if you already have real-time cinematic experience.
• An understanding of digital imaging principles and the creation of calibrated lighting environments to aid the look development process would be beneficial.
• Knowledge / previous experience with visual scripting methods in engine would be desirable.

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. For those based in the studio, we offer complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub The Bird or Worm? We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

Our Process: We are an equal opportunity employer. Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is a crucial and permanent part of our business strategy. To help us ensure a fully equal, diverse and inclusive working environment, we carry out anonymised screening.Our anonymised screening automatically obscures your personal information from your application and encourages a more inclusive hiring process by mitigating unconscious bias from the start.

Where possible, we kindly ask that you submit anonymised reels/portfolios to support our ED&I commitments.

Please note, this advert closes on Sunday 22nd August.