People Can Fly Studio

Artist

• Manage, supervise, and advocate for the team's needs by following an established development process and by performing hands-on work on levels, content, and documentation to efficiently produce playable levels that align with the Art Director's vision, level design requirements, and narrative needs while meeting production constraints and performance targets.
• Lead a team and foster a motivating work environment to achieve the best possible outcomes for the project and support the personal development of team members.
• Create level geometry and world composition in Unreal Engine.
• Ensure the technical consistency of all environment art elements across the project while adhering to established processes.
• Make sure all created assets meet the technical and design requirements of the engine effectively.
• Define, maintain, and communicate quality standards and completion criteria for environment art elements.
• Translate the Art Director's vision into clear artistic direction for the team and ensure its consistent implementation.
• Execute tasks according to specifications and ensure smooth workflows are maintained to meet deadlines.
• Work closely with production on task allocation and scheduling to meet milestones while promoting a healthy work-life balance through clear expectations and frameworks.
• Oversee bug fixes and write R&D case studies for the knowledge base.
• Identify risks and communicate them as early as possible, proposing solutions to manage them according to project needs.
• Provide daily feedback to maintain the desired quality level and to support the team's development.
• Collaborate with the team to find solutions and resolve problems creatively.
• Share knowledge and mentor colleagues.
• Work with the technical art team and encourage R&D initiatives to explore new techniques and improve workflows and processes.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with other managers, directors, and project stakeholders across departments to ensure efficiency and minimize misunderstandings.
• Conduct regular performance and compensation reviews for team members.
• Lead recruitment initiatives in collaboration with HR.
• Ensure the onboarding and integration of new hires.

Lead Level Artist

• Maintain artistic direction and quality.
• Work with the Leads and other Lighting Artists to create high-quality lighting schemes in keeping with the project's universe and visual direction.
• Lighting of scenes or levels based on reference photographs and/or concept art materials.
• Help to drive the narrative storytelling through effective use of color, light and mood.
• Lighting scenes/levels or cinematics to both a creative and technical brief under set deadlines.
• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
• Participate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.
• Work with developers in multiple disciplines and ensure that work gets integrated into the build.
• Maintain a balance between visual quality and performance requirements for the game.
• Review and playtest your work in the editor and in-game.

Lighting Artist

Game Engineer

• Develop and maintain the tools and systems required to enable other developers to create missions, build complex game mechanics, and balance the game.
• Improve and maintain gameplay within the PCF Framework (based on Unreal Engine 4).
• Create prototypes for new gameplay features.
• Write code for complex game mechanics.
• Write code for level layout, event scripting, balancing, narrative pacing, and tuning.
• Test, debug, profile, and optimize implementations.
• Produce design documentation that adheres to team standards.
• Occasionally assist the manager in carrying out recruitment initiatives in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Occasionally onboard new employees.
• Actively participate in code reviews.

Principal Gameplay Programmer

• 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.

Senior External Development Lighting Artist

• To effectively produce playable levels based on Art directors vision and Level design needs with lead cooperation.
• Creating world geometry and composition for levels in Unreal Engine.
• Redesigning existing assets to new forms.
• Blocking out modules and levels, creating first/proxy materials.
• Produce work within specifications and maintain workflow pipelines within given deadlines.
• Model proxy assets.
• Participate in reviews, adapt to, and implement feedback from leads and peers in a professional manner.
• Participate in R&D initiatives, to explore new techniques and implement improvements to pipelines and workflows.