Lighting Artist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Japan.

📋 Description

• Design and produce visually striking and high-quality lighting for environments and cinematics.

• Generate lighting that resonates with the project's artistic vision and narrative through mood, tone, and atmosphere.

• Create lighting optimized for real-time gaming engines.

• Collaborate closely with the Art Director to uphold the overall artistic vision.

• Work alongside cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic coherence and quality.

• Engage in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.

• Ensure that lighting adheres to performance, memory, and platform-specific criteria across various platforms.

• Partner closely with environment, VFX, and technical art teams to integrate lighting with assets and workflows.

• Utilize a strong comprehension of lighting for real-time performance.

• Maintain quality consistency while working within technical constraints and engine limitations.

• Diagnose and resolve both creative and technical lighting issues.

• Stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows.

• Contribute ideas and enhancements to production processes and pipelines.

• Continuously elevate the visual quality and innovation of game art production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience as a Lighting Artist in the video game industry, with a robust portfolio demonstrating high-quality real-time game assets.

• Profound understanding of lighting, composition, color theory, and visual storytelling.

• Experience in creating optimized assets for contemporary real-time game engines like Unreal Engine or Unity.

• Strong grasp of lighting tools (Lumen, light baking, and post-processing), performance optimization, and technical constraints across multiple gaming platforms.

• Ability to work cooperatively within multidisciplinary teams, communicate ideas effectively, and incorporate feedback throughout production.

• Familiarity with game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to fit various game genres and target platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees have the opportunity to work remotely.