Lighting Artist

Description

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a skilled Lighting Artist to join our team and deliver world-class lighting for our current project. We are looking for candidate who has passion and experience both in artistry of Lighting as well as high level of Tech Art Lighting skills. The ideal candidate has experience in lighting variety of maps, in variety of levels of stylization. Someone who is proud on their ability to control the atmosphere and mood of the image. This is an opportunity to join a talented, passionate team of developers and artists, playing an integral part in pushing the boundaries on real-time visuals to new levels.

Requirements

What we will do together:

• Get the right tone, mood and atmosphere for our game.
• Lit game levels as well as UI experience and cinematics.
• Work on sky boxes, postprocesses.
• Work on color grading.
• Set up best practices and work Environment and VFX art teams.
• Work closely with the Lead lighting artist to establish visual targets.
• Closely work with Tech Artists to have optimal performance.

What you will bring:

• Comprehensive experience working with real-time lighting techniques in the video games industry.
• Minimum released 1 project with Unreal Engine.
• Fundamental understanding of colour and lighting theories.
• Experience of lighting stylized realism project.
• Understanding of material authoring in a physically based rendering pipeline.
• Proven experience with Color Grading.
• Sound knowledge of lighting theory.
• A comprehensive portfolio, showcasing your artistic skills.

Benefits

Interested… a bit about Escape Velocity:

Escape Velocity is a team of passionate, talented developers working at a studio that offers excellent benefits, on what we believe is a unique project with a committed publisher. But that doesn’t necessarily make us unique. What does make us special? We value the time, energy, and talent of our players and our colleagues. We want every hour spent developing and playing our games to be an incredibly rewarding and worthwhile use of your time.

To that end, we are ‘Fully Remote’ and support team members nearly anywhere in the world. We prioritize honesty, even when that means sharing bad news. We strive to give everyone autonomy so they can determine how best to work and play, and we care more about what you bring to the game and studio than how many hours you’re clocking. We’re dedicated to building a culture of play, which not only makes us better game makers, but also strengthens the bonds between us all. We believe in constant improvement across all areas – from the game itself to our production design – and are constantly re-evaluating how we spend our time to ensure that we’re not wasting yours and we’re all always working on the most important things.

A few benefits you can expect from us:

• A generous PTO allowance
• Summer and Winter holidays studio closure (separate to PTO allowance)
• Private Medical & Dental Healthcare
• Private Mental Health scheme
• A generous annual Health & Wellbeing allowance
• Discretionary Studio Bonus
• Top range tech for your home set up
• Other benefits based on your region

How to apply:

Click apply and complete an application along with a Resume / CV. If we would like to move forward with your application, a member of the Recruiting Team will reach out to you and guide you through our process.

Escape Velocity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities.

Applications will be considered regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.