Senior Lighting Artist

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • $149,000 PA - $205,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Sanzaru Games is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to create visually stunning and immersive worlds in Virtual Reality. The role involves collaborating with level artists and cinematics teams, ensuring creative requirements are met, and maintaining a balance between visual quality and performance. Responsibilities include creating compelling lighting scenarios, establishing lighting standards, troubleshooting technical issues, and collaborating with the materials team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for games and contribute to groundbreaking visuals in the AAA VR game space. The role also involves using post-process toolsets to enhance visuals and receiving feedback and implementing changes. The job requires working with art and design to create compelling and dramatic lighting scenarios for gameplay and collaborating with Materials team to enhance realistic surfaces and environments with Lighting. The candidate will be working with art and design to create compelling and dramatic lighting scenarios for gameplay and troubleshooting art and technical lighting issues that arise.

Must have:

5+ years of lighting artist experience in games or film
Understanding of lighting fundamentals, mood, color theory
Experience with contemporary lighting and rendering techniques
Technical understanding of Game engines, preferably Unreal Engine
Communication and interdisciplinary collaboration skills
Proven track record of technical problem-solving skills
Portfolio of lighting experience showcasing skills
Proficient with post-process toolsets to enhance visuals
Experience to receive feedback and implement changes

Good to have:

Experience working in VR

Perks:

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benefits

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Job Details

Come join Sanzaru Games to join our award-winning AAA development team behind Asgard’s Wrath. Sanzaru is looking for a Experienced Lighting Artist who can bring creative and technical lighting expertise to help us craft visually stunning and immersive worlds in Virtual Reality. If you are passionate about games and would like to make a mark on pioneering breathtaking visuals in the AAA VR Game space, we’d love to hear from you!

Senior Lighting Artist- Sanzaru Games Responsibilities

Work with the Level artists and Cinematics team to create compelling lighting for a variety of characters and environments while maintaining a consistent style.

Work with Lead Artist to ensure creative requirements of all the levels are met.

Work with Art and Design to create compelling and dramatic lighting scenarios for gameplay.

Maintain a balance between visual quality and performance requirements.

Establish Lighting standards, templates, documentation to maintain visual and technical quality across the project.

Collaborate with Materials team to enhance realistic surfaces and environments with Lighting.

Troubleshooting art and technical lighting issues that arise.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a lighting artist in games or film.

Proven understanding of lighting fundamentals, mood, composition, color theory, space, material, and light.

Demonstrated understanding of contemporary lighting and surfacing rendering techniques, including physically based rendering tools, exposure settings, shaders, and materials.

Demonstrated experience in technical understanding of Game engines, preferably Unreal Engine.

Demonstrated communication skills, work ethic and robust interdisciplinary collaboration.

Proven track record of success in technical problem-solving skills.

Portfolio of lighting experience showcasing a beautiful mix of artistic and technical skills.

Proficient with post-process toolsets to enhance the visuals.

Demonstrated experience to receive feedback and implement changes in a productive and accountable manner.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in VR

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