Lightning Artist

The Lightning Artist will be responsible for creating and tuning lighting for game environments, cutscenes, and daily cycles, optimizing performance and visual quality. They will collaborate with the Head of Art to define mood and style, develop new lighting techniques, and work closely with technical artists and level designers to achieve balanced visual and functional results.

Must Have

• Create and tune lighting for game environments, cutscenes, and daily cycles
• Work with real-time lighting, optimize performance and visual quality
• Collaborate with Head of Art on defining mood and style of locations
• Develop and test new lighting techniques for realism and atmosphere
• Cooperate with technical artists and level designers for visual and functional results
• Strong artistic sense for composition, color, light, and atmosphere
• Experience with lighting pipeline in a game environment
• Good knowledge of PBR workflow and real-time rendering technical limits
• Portfolio showing ability to work with light and scene emotion
• Team approach, willingness to learn, and attention to detail

Good to Have

• Experience with lighting for AAA projects
• Knowledge of scripting (e.g., Python, Blueprints) for automating lighting setups

Perks & Benefits

• Work on an interesting AAA project with international reach
• Pleasant working environment in modern offices in Prague
• Be part of a young ambitious team and learn from game industry veterans
• Shared breakfasts and other small refreshments in the offices

Job Description

• Creation and tuning of lighting for game environments, cutscenes, and daily cycles in cooperation with environment and cinematic teams.
• Work with real-time lighting, performance optimization, and visual quality.
• Collaboration with the Head of Art on defining the mood and style of individual locations.
• Developing and testing new lighting techniques to increase realism and atmosphere.
• Close cooperation with technical artists and level designers to achieve a balanced visual and functional result.

Requirements

• Strong artistic sense for composition, color, light, and atmosphere.
• Experience with lighting pipeline in a game environment.
• Good knowledge of PBR workflow and technical limits of real-time rendering.
• Portfolio demonstrating the ability to work with light and scene emotion.
• Team approach, willingness to learn, and attention to detail.

Advantage

• Experience with lighting for AAA projects.
• Knowledge of scripting (e.g., Python, Blueprints) for automating lighting setups.

We offer

• Work on an interesting AAA project with international reach
• Pleasant working environment in modern offices in Prague
• Being part of a young ambitious team and an opportunity to learn from veterans of the game industry
• Shared breakfasts and other small refreshments in the offices
• And more