Senior Lighting Artist

Creating high-end lighting for cut-scenes and innovating new techniques for next-gen hardware, collaborating with engineers to expand the required tool-set. Analyzing scenes for performance issues, ensuring all lights are as optimal as possible, and working with the Tech/Engine department to fix technical lighting issues. Qualifications include a critical eye for environment depth from a lighting point of view and experience with a variety of techniques and tools that help achieve lighting goals. Having an understanding of the performance of current console generation and the ability to create all content needed for lighting is important. This includes textures, IES, HDR maps, materials, and scripts, working with artists, designers, and programmers to work through artistic and technical challenges, and experience with generating light-maps and baked lighting. Following Unreal Engine technical news and maintaining a high work ethic with self motivation are also important.