Lead Lighting Artist

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • VFX

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Lighting Artist, you will create lighting for in-game environments to enhance atmosphere, visual storytelling, and gameplay. Responsibilities include working with the Art Director, maintaining the lighting pipeline, managing the lighting team, collaborating with rendering engineers, and ensuring optimal performance. You will need to work with design and environment teams. You will be responsible for optimizing lighting and ensuring it meets performance budgets. You will also need to communicate effectively with all disciplines.

Must have:

5+ years of lighting experience for video games
Artistic eye with attention to detail, understanding of color theory
Working knowledge of modern lighting techniques
Strong awareness of industry technology trends
Excellent interpersonal skills

Good to have:

UE5 experience
Familiarity with shader and texture creation
Previous leadership experience

Perks:

Additional medical and dental health insurance
Additional holiday allowance plus studio closure
Annual discretionary studio bonus
Career development pathways and training
Wellbeing support with employee assistance programme
Free games and merchandise
Free breakfast every day
Office massages
Studio parties

12 skills required

12 skills required for this role

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communication

leadership

rendering

character-design

lighting-techniques

artistic-vision

visual-storytelling

talent-acquisition

game-texts

storytelling

lighting-shading

composition

Job Details

Creative Assembly is looking for a Lead Lighting Artist to join our talented team to work on our new project, a sequel to Alien: Isolation.

This role will be based at our studio in Sofia, Bulgaria and can be offered as hybrid / in-studio / fully remote within country of employment. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

As a Lead Lighting Artist on the team, you will be responsible for creating balanced and atmospheric lighting for in-game environments that enhances atmosphere, visual storytelling and gameplay experience.

Note: Applications for this role must include a portfolio/showreel (or link to a portfolio/showreel). Applications that do not have this information will not be considered.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

Work closely with Art Director to define and execute lighting direction for the project.
Maintain lighting and post-process pipeline, balancing artistic vision with technical constrains.
Manage lighting team providing mentorship, feedback and support
Collaborate with rendering engineers identifying lighting requirements and overseeing their implementation.
Work with design and environment teams to ensure lighting delivers the best player experience
Optimise lighting and ensure it meets performance budgets
Communicate well, with all disciplines, and be well organised.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

5+ years of experience in lighting for video games
Keen artistic eye with attention to detail, combined with an understanding of colour theory, composition, and visual storytelling.
Working knowledge of modern lighting techniques
Strong awareness of industry technology trends
Excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable

UE5 experience
Familiarity with shader and texture creation
Previous leadership experience

About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.

We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.

We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life in-surance, and free health care screening
Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
Annual discretionary studio bonus
Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
Office massages
Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.