Lead Lighting Artist
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
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.
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:
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.
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