Senior Lighting Artist

Description

As a Senior Lighter, you will report to the Production Art Director and work directly with the Environment Art team, Character team, VFX team, technical artists, and graphical engineers to produce prebaked and real time lighting that sets a new bar for the gaming industry. You must be able to produce award winning next generation content, enjoy working in a highly collaborative environment, and value well thought out processes and schedules. The Senior Lighter is responsible for driving the design and creation of lighting, from concept to completion, and all associated lighting pipelines. You must possess excellent organizational skills, strong managerial and leadership skills, and effective communication skills as this position carries the potential to become a Lead role as the team grows. As a Senior Lighter you must have demonstrated exceptional artistic and technical skills while in a similar role on at least one AAA Next Gen console game.

Responsibilities:
• Drive the game's lighting through the various stages of development and ensure the quality of the content produced in each functional area will define new standards in the industry.
• Oversee the production and implementation of all lighting for the game.
• Demonstrate, communicate and exemplify clear expectations for quality of work, productivity, communication and professionalism to the team.
• Collaborate with the team leads to find production solutions that uphold the vision of the game and adhere to established technical requirements.
• Work with the producers to develop solid schedules and production plans.
• Contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development.
• Work with the leads to define and implement solid production pipelines
• Document & communicate clear technical guidelines for lighting creation and implementation.
• This position has the opportunity to evolve into a Lighting Lead role as the team grows. If it does then you will also need to be able to manage and mentor a lighting team as well as interact with the team at a discipline lead level.
• Report to Production Art Director.