Senior Lighting Artist lighting environments and optimizing post - process effects for Piranha Games, an action - game studio behind MechWarrior. Collaborating across art and design teams.
About the role
- Senior External Development Lighting Artist creating captivating lighting in video games. Collaborating with designers and engineers while utilizing Unreal Engine expertise.
Responsibilities
- Create captivating lighting that establishes mood, tells a story, and builds a coherent world.
- Support level designers by providing lighting assistance to help them achieve their goals.
- Design and deliver lighting assets as well as IES textures.
- Create dynamic lighting that brings the environment to life.
- Collaborate with the VFX team to create atmospheric 3D scenes using the right color palette and other key artistic elements.
- Create high-end lighting for cinematic sequences.
- Develop new techniques for next-generation hardware and work collaboratively with engineering teams to expand the required toolset.
- Analyze scenes to identify performance issues, ensuring all lighting is optimized as much as possible.
- Collaborate with technical and engine teams to resolve technical lighting issues.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in the video game industry in a similar role.
- Experience working with Unreal Engine.
- Experience with published titles.
- A critical eye for environmental depth from a lighting perspective.
- Experience with a range of techniques and tools to achieve lighting objectives.
- Understanding of performance on current-generation consoles.
- Ability to create all required lighting content (textures, IES, HDR maps, materials, scripts, etc.).
- Ability to work with artists, designers, and programmers to overcome artistic and technical challenges.
- Experience generating lightmaps and precomputed (baked) lighting.
- Stay up to date with technical developments in Unreal Engine.
- Strong work ethic and self-motivation.
- Passion for video games.
- Language: English.
Benefits
- A benefits package fully paid by PCF.
- The insurance provider reimburses claims at 100% (up to $1,000 of services per year, in addition to family or individual coverage).
- Comprehensive dental coverage, including major dental care and orthodontics.
- A matching RRSP contribution of 4% pre-tax, 100% vested from day one.
- One week of paid time off during the winter holidays.
- 20 days of paid vacation and 5 days of paid sick leave.
- Free virtual health and mental wellness care sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
- A competitive salary and annual performance-based bonuses.
- Opportunities for personal development and the chance to work in a global environment.
- The opportunity to work within a creative team of people passionate about what they do.
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