Environment & Lighting Artist

2 Months ago • All levels • 3D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Vertigo Games, a VR game developer, seeks an Environment & Lighting Artist for their next VR game. Responsibilities include lighting design, collaboration with level designers, creating modular environments and props, ensuring performance optimization, and meeting deadlines. The ideal candidate has experience in a similar role on a console or PC game within a large team (50+), proficiency in Unreal Engine, lighting design, 3D asset creation, and strong art fundamentals. Experience with VR, material creation, scripting, and VFX is a plus.
Must have:
  • Full game development cycle experience
  • Unreal Engine proficiency
  • Lighting design & implementation skills
  • 3D asset creation & optimization
  • Modular environment creation
Good to have:
  • VR/mobile development experience
  • Material/shader creation (Unreal, HLSL)
  • Scripting (Unreal Blueprint, MEL, Python)
  • Experience with 3rd party environment tools
  • Environmental VFX creation
Perks:
  • Healthy work-life balance
  • Hybrid work model
  • 26+ vacation days
  • Free train commute
  • Free pension plan
  • Free lunch
  • Group activities & VR game jam
  • Thursday drinks
  • VR hardware access
  • Work from home hardware/cost support

Job Details

Your mission
We are Vertigo Games, developers and publishers of top-end VR titles like Metro Awakening, Arizona Sunshine, After the Fall and The 7th Guest. Our Amsterdam studio has started development of our next VR game, following Metro Awakening, and we are looking to recruit an Environment & Lighting Artist who can aid us in our mission.

Are you looking for a studio that celebrates creativity and sets the bar in immersive entertainment? Then we should meet!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Create and implement a lighting design for all of the game environments in compliance with the artistic direction and technical constraints.
  • Closely co-operate with level designers in crafting a detailed world that follows the artistic direction and supports the gameplay.
  • Create and integrate modular environment pieces, props and materials into the game engine, from functional block out to polish.
  • Apply your understanding of composition, staging, and form to create immersive game environments that tell a story.
  • Ensure that environment assets are built and implemented in a way that maximizes performance while maintaining visual quality.
  • Follow the established production schedule and ensure that your environment assignments are delivered on time and meet the quality requirements.
  • Plan and co-ordinate your work regularly with your team, communicating effectively to ensure transparency.
Your profile
  • Experience of the full development cycle on a console or PC game in an environment art role in a team of 50 or more.
  • Skilled in building worlds in engine (Unreal Engine preferred). 
  • Highly skilled in lighting design and implementation, including time of day, fog/skyboxes, palette control, and post process effects.
  • Understanding of modularity and environment systems used in fast, iterative, and efficient production.
  • Experience and understanding of 3D asset creation and optimization.
  • Understanding of modern materials and shaders. 
  • Skilled at 3D modelling and texturing using Maya/Blender, and Substance Designer/Painter.
  • Understanding of art fundamentals, e.g. the function of form, color, proportions, and shape.
  • English on a proficient level.
Bonus points for
  • Experience with mobile and/or VR development.
  • Ability to create materials (Unreal, HLSL) and scripting (Unreal Blueprint, MEL, Python).
  • Experience with 3rd party tools which can increase the quality and efficiency in how we build environments. 
  • Can create environmental VFX (e.g. shaders, particle systems ).
We offer
  • A company culture that values a healthy work-life balance.
  • A hybrid working model with two office days per week.
  • 26 standard vacation days with an option to buy 5 more.
  • Free train commuting to and from the office.
  • Free pension plan.
  • A healthy lunch in our canteen.
  • Group activities and an annual VR game jam.
  • Thursday afternoon drinks.
  • The latest VR hardware and titles which you can borrow and take home.
  • Whilst working from home we provide all the relevant hardware, budget for a desk and chair and a contribution toward your energy costs.
About us

Vertigo Games is a multi-platform VR  entertainment company with offices in Rotterdam & Amsterdam (NL) and Los  Angeles, California (USA).

With experienced teams in the areas of Studios, Publishing and Arcades, the company develops, publishes and distributes a growing portfolio of quality VR games that offer a novel, powerful and full-featured gaming experience both in- and outside of the home.

In 2020, Vertigo Games joined the leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, Koch Media, now PLAION (a subsidiary of the Embracer Group), adding VR gaming to the Group’s global network.

In 2021, the company announced it has five more high-end titles in the pipeline for the coming years.


     
 

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About The Company

Vertigo is the mobile game development & publishing studio of midcore real-time social multiplayer games, located in Istanbul, Turkey. Our goal is to develop and self-publish social multiplayer games with the best gaming experience and high quality production values. We're focusing on making the best games with polished graphics and addictive game-play. We offer a fun, lively and dynamic workplace, where creativity, agility, and innovation are encouraged, prized and rewarded. Working with us will develop your skills, drive your career forward and delight millions of players around the world. As a fast-growing team of game development enthusiasts, we create a challenging work environment open to anybody truly passionate about mobile games. jobs@vertigogames.co https://www.vertigogames.co

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