Artist

• Work closely with Art Leadership and other disciplines to create compelling and immersive environments.
• Set up lighting for levels and create lightmaps.
• Implement both dynamic and baked lighting solutions.
• Collaborate with the art team to ensure lighting enhances the overall artistic vision.
• Contribute ideas to improve lighting workflows and stay updated on industry trends and techniques.

Lighting Artist crafting immersive environments at Lighthouse Games

Lighting Artist

Lighting Artist at Lighthouse Games creating immersive environments. Collaborating with teams to enhance player experience through compelling lighting solutions.

• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, including Designers, Artists, Technical Artists, and Engineers, to define, create, and optimise real-time lighting solutions that enhance visual quality, support gameplay, and perform within platform limitations.
• Be a key point of contact with other departments and support the Lead Lighting Artist.
• Partner with the Lighting Lead, Art Director and Cinematic Director to realize the project’s artistic vision ensuring lighting brings up the quality of the art assets.
• Drive the creation of high-quality lighting content that balances artistic excellence with technical performance requirements.
• Optimise lighting solutions to meet budget targets and provide mentorship and oversight to other Lighting Artists in the effective management of lighting budgets.
• Responsible for mentoring junior and midlevel Lighting Artists to develop their skills, whilst delegating tasks to them where appropriate.

Senior Lighting Artist creating immersive lighting for game worlds at Warner Bros. Discovery

Senior Lighting Artist

Senior Lighting Artist creating compelling lighting that enhances mood and atmosphere in games. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver stunning and immersive player experiences for Warner Bros. Discovery.

• Design and produce authentic, high-fidelity aircraft liveries based on real-world references and branding materials.
• Create liveries in line with internal concepts and community requests.
• Ensure liveries are optimized for performance and compatible with MSFS standards.
• Work with 3D models and UV layouts to accurately apply liveries without distortion as decals or on base textures.
• Collaborate with the art team to maintain consistency in quality, style, and workflow.
• Troubleshoot and resolve texture-related issues within the simulator pipeline.

Livery Painter creating detailed aircraft liveries for Microsoft Flight Simulator

Livery Artist – Vehicles Team

Livery Painter creating high-quality aircraft liveries for Microsoft Flight Simulator. Collaborating with artists and developers to ensure authenticity and technical compliance.

• Leading the delivery of scenery assets and set-based content across your team’s workstreams, ensuring output meets quality, performance, and schedule expectations.
• Translating art direction into clear, actionable goals and supporting your team to deliver consistent, high-quality results.
• Working closely with Production to plan work, provide estimates, track progress, and identify risks early.
• Supporting your team day-to-day by reviewing work, providing clear feedback, and helping to resolve challenges to keep delivery moving.
• Ensuring assets are combined into cohesive, believable scenery that supports gameplay, readability, and visual storytelling.
• Maintaining alignment with technical requirements, pipelines, and performance constraints.
• Line managing artists, supporting their development through feedback, coaching, and structured growth.
• Assigning work effectively to balance delivery needs with individual development.
• Creating a positive, collaborative team environment where people feel supported and motivated.
• Acting as the main point of contact for scenery-related work, collaborating with Art Direction, Production, and other teams to keep everything aligned and moving forward.
• Contributing to team planning and resourcing, supporting improvements to workflows and processes, and working with external partners where required.

Lead Artist creating 3D scenery assets for games at Frontier Developments

Lead Artist

Lead Artist guiding a team in creating consistent, high-quality 3D assets for games. Delivering scenery that supports gameplay and visual storytelling at Frontier Developments.

• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop pragmatic and visually stunning effects across specific game areas.
• Contribute and maintain game shader libraries.
• Identify and optimise shader performance issues.
• Optimise texture packing and texture formats based on content usage.
• Ensure content teams have what they need to complete assets, ensuring practical effect workflows and auditing.
• Create shader feature specifications considering key stakeholder requirements.

Shader Artist developing features for materials at Frontier

Shader Artist

Shader Artist developing visually stunning effects and materials for games at Frontier. Collaborating with artists and programmers in a hybrid work environment.

• Create high and low poly hard surface models (weapons, vehicles, props, structures, and environmental assets) to a high standard of quality.
• Produce clean, optimised topology and UV layouts appropriate for real-time game engines.
• Author PBR texture sets using industry-standard tools, ensuring assets are physically accurate and visually consistent with the project's art style.
• Work from concept art and reference material to produce assets that meet design and artistic intent.
• Integrate assets into the game engine and iterate based on feedback from leads and art directors.
• Collaborate with environment, character, and technical art teams to ensure seamless asset integration.
• Contribute to and maintain art documentation, style guides, and pipeline workflows.
• Participate in art reviews, offering and receiving constructive feedback.
• Identify and flag technical or artistic issues proactively and propose solutions.

Hard Surface Artist crafting high-quality game assets at a UK video game studio

Hard Surface Artist

Hard Surface Artist developing high-quality hard surface models for game assets in Guildford. Collaborating with teams to create engaging game visuals for an unannounced project.

• Play a key role in shaping the aesthetic and ambience of our games
• Create lighting setups and execute post-processing effects
• Collaborate with environment artists to ensure cohesive and immersive lighting across all game spaces
• Assist in defining and maintaining a lighting pipeline
• Contribute to establishing lighting benchmarks and guidelines for the team

Senior Lighting Artist shaping aesthetics in AAA gaming studio

Senior Lighting Artist at Lighthouse Games shaping game aesthetics and ambience. Creating lighting setups and collaborating to achieve immersive visual experiences.

• Support the master material shaders design process, fostering a high standard of technical practices and artistic excellence in line with project goals.
• Create and maintain complex Unreal Master Material Shaders.
• Create PBR photo-realistic textures and Material Instances.
• Collaborating with the Art Director and other discipline leads to drive the development and innovation of material workflows that maximise visual impact.
• Establishing best practices for material creation, documentation of workflows, and the development of new tools and techniques.
• Working with Technical Artists and Render Engineers to optimise shader content and ensure performance targets are met.
• Driving research and implementation of advanced material techniques, technologies, and industry standards

Senior Material Artist creating PBR materials for AAA gaming studio

Senior Material Artist

Senior Material Artist at Lighthouse Games, creating complex PBR materials for a new AAA game. Collaborating with the Art team to innovate and maintain high-quality content.

• Develop and produce realistic AAA standard PBR materials.
• Collaborate with teams across Environment, Foliage, Scanning, Character, and Vehicle art to create cohesive materials and shaders.
• Engage with Technical Artists and Render Engineers to set new benchmarks in material shader development.
• Document and refine the material creation pipeline for consistency and efficiency.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance quality and workflows.

Material Artist creating AAA standard PBR materials for a game studio

Material Artist

Material Artist at Lighthouse Games producing realistic PBR materials for a groundbreaking new IP. Collaborating with diverse teams to enhance visual fidelity and immersive gaming experiences.

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