Artist

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
• Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects.
• Maintain visual consistency across related environments, gameplay spaces, sequences, times of day, and lighting conditions.
• Bring assigned scenes from initial lighting setup through final polish.
• Respond to feedback from Art Direction, project leadership, and clients in a timely and professional manner.
• Ensure completed work meets project requirements for quality, performance, organization, and delivery.

Lighting Artist

• Drive keyframe animation for hero characters, creatures, and key gameplay moments
• Partner with Leads and Production to help define animation scope
• Collaborate with designers and programmers to implement and refine animations in Unreal Engine 5
• Mentor animators and provide clear feedback
• Lead motion capture sessions and oversee processing of mocap data

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Lighting Artist

Advanced Artist, Animation