Senior Lighting - Compositing Artist creating compelling final imagery for animated feature length projects at Cinesite. Collaborating with leads to ensure technical and artistic objectives are met.
About the role
- Senior Lighting Artist maintaining artistic consistency and cinematic atmosphere in game production. Collaborating with Art Leadership and mentoring intermediate artists in a remote-first studio.
Responsibilities
- Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines.
- Take ownership of lighting direction in collaboration with Art Leadership to establish a strong, cinematic atmosphere and great composition.
- Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments.
- Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance.
- Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent.
- Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices.
- Mentor an intermediate Lighting Artist in the production pipeline and provide actionable creative feedback
Requirements
- 5+ Years of professional experience lighting environments and scenes in a video game production pipeline.
- Strong understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure and physically based natural lighting.
- Insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods.
- Deep understanding of real-time rendering principles and physically based rendering (PBR) workflows.
- Experience working with post-processing, exposure, atmospheric effects, and lighting optimization techniques.
- Ability to balance artistic quality with technical and gameplay requirements
- Familiarity with modern game art pipelines and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly detail oriented, technically inclined with strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
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