Technical Artist – Lighting / Rendering

In this role you will: (Responsibilities)

• Marry creative methodologies with technical expertise to create, maintain, and polish lighting and rendering configurations that hit performance targets, maintain visual goals, and meet gameplay objectives.
• Participate in art reviews to help identify technical lighting concerns and risks.
• Help develop and maintain visual consistency throughout the game experience.
• Educate team members in the effective use of lighting and rendering systems.

The ideal candidate will possess: (Requirements/Experience )

• 3+ yrs of experience as a Lighting Artist, or Technical Lighting Artist having worked through at least one full AAA production cycle.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine lighting and rendering systems.
• Lighting performant spaces while developing platform scalable setups.
• Understanding of physically based rendering, lighting, and shading techniques.
• Working knowledge of processes and procedures used in the development of realtime art.

Plusses

• Profiling experience in Pix, RenderDoc, or Unreal native tools
• Demonstrable knowledge of color theory, composition in the round, and telling a story with light.
• Familiarity working with HDR, Tonemapping, and Wide Color Gamuts.
• Developing shaders in both node networks and code such as HLSL
• Fine art background
• Scripting experience in Python or similar.