Lead Lighting Artist shaping BioShock’s real - time lighting, rendering, and cinematics at Cloud Chamber. Leading artists and optimizing Unreal Engine 5 lighting pipelines for a AAA game.
About the role
- Senior Materials Level Artist creating PBR materials, environments, and world-building assets for PlayStation AAA games. Supporting Visual Arts teams with high-fidelity, shippable content.
Responsibilities
- Create and refine realistic physically based (PBR) materials for in-game and cinematic levels
- Maintain visual consistency and quality standards across the project
- Perform terrain and level-specific modeling
- Construct organic and hard-surface environments and worlds
- Place assets to drive an immersive player experience
- Create integrated environmental looks through material blending and ground-to-asset transitions
- Develop environmental storytelling through age, wear, erosion, and historical narrative
- Handle environment art from blockout/prototyping through custom asset creation and final shippable-quality art
- Partner with Art Directors, Leads, and Technical Artists
- Implement feedback quickly and effectively
- Help define and improve the game's visual direction
- Balance visual quality with performance constraints
- Solve production challenges creatively
- Estimate scope and manage workload
- Deliver work on schedule in a production environment
Requirements
- 6+ years' experience as a material / world building artist in the video game industry
- 2 shipped AAA titles
- Proficient with Autodesk Maya and traditional modeling pipelines
- Portfolio demonstrating materials created using procedural and traditional techniques
- Strong understanding of PBR material workflows, standards, and surface/light interactions
- Strong understanding of game development with a focus on materials usage within a world building pipeline
- Proficient at applying surface details and controlling shader features for varied material types
- Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and traditional texture baking techniques
- Ability to unwrap UVs for texturing meshes and lightmaps in Autodesk Maya
- Experience optimizing games for performance and memory
- Advanced understanding of game and cinematic art asset creation
- Ability to learn new game engines and tools rapidly
- Work core hours aligned with PST and the team located in California
- Portfolio or demo reel required; may be asked to complete an art test and phone screen
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
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