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.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other
Industries
Software Development
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