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Lead Lighting Artist

Lead Lighting Artist

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Technical Art • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Lead Lighting Artist at Virtuos, you will be responsible for understanding client needs and preparing clear briefing materials for in-house lighting artists. You will manage communication with clients on artistic and technical matters, provide artistic supervision throughout the production process, anticipate and solve technical challenges, identify and set up best practices for lighting workflows, and work with R&D on new industry technology and trends. You will also prioritize, plan, and assign tasks to team members, manage personal development, performance, and morale, and conduct team performance evaluations.

Must have:

5+ years of professional Lighting experience in game or film industry
Experience leading a team of 5-10 Lighting artists
Experience creating and optimizing Lighting pipelines
Adaptability to various aesthetic and styles
Excellent communication skills
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Good to have:

Experience with AAA photorealism to stylized cartoon
Ability to balance quality and technical constraints

Perks:

Work alongside industry veterans
Live and work in an exciting, cosmopolitan city
Contribute to the world’s biggest AAA games
Customized training programs and regular workshops
Group fitness, wellness activities
Reasonable and flexible working hours
Gaming corners with consoles and canteens on every floor
Comprehensive medical healthcare provided for all staff
Relocation support provided
Career and international mobility opportunities with Virtuos Internal Mobility Program

Responsibilities

Understand client’s needs and prepare clear briefing materials for in house lighting artists.
Manage communication with clients about artistic and technical matters.
Provide artistic supervision throughout production process.
Anticipate and solve technical challenges within given constraints and visual requirements.
Identify and set up best practices of lighting workflow.
Work with R&D on new industry technology and trends to improve the project's visual quality and efficiency.
Prioritize, plan and assign tasks to his team members.
Manage personal development, performance and morale of in house Lighting artists.
Manage team performance evaluations.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of professional Lighting experience in game or film industry.
Have a minimum of one successfully shipped title.
Experience leading a team of 5-10 Lighting artists.
Experience creating and optimizing Lighting pipelines.
Adaptability to various aesthetic and styles ranging from AAA photorealism to stylized cartoon.
Able to balance quality and technical constraints
Excellent communication skills.
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.

About Us

Founded in 2004, Virtuos is one of the largest independent video game development companies. We are headquartered in Singapore with over 3,500 employees across 22 offices in Asia, Europe, and North America. Specializing in full-cycle game development and art production, we have delivered high-quality content for more than 1,500 console, PC, and mobile games. Our clients include 23 of the top 25 gaming companies worldwide. Visit to find out how we can make games better, together.

About Our Team

The award-winning Virtuos Shanghai studio was founded in late 2004, the first of six game development studios located internationally and the former headquarters of the group before its relocation to Singapore in 2018.

Staffed by a multicultural group of talents, the studio specializes in providing full-stack game development and co-development services, including technical support for art and engineering. Virtuos Shanghai is also the base of operations for multiple Art teams working on the world’s top triple-A projects.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Work alongside industry veterans

• A total of 14 different nationalities working together

• Live and work in an exciting, cosmopolitan city

• Contribute to the world’s biggest AAA games

• Customized training programs and regular workshops

• Group fitness, wellness activities

• Reasonable and flexible working hours

• Gaming corners with consoles and canteens on every floor

• Comprehensive medical healthcare provided for all staff

• Relocation support provided

• Career and international mobility opportunities with Virtuos Internal Mobility Program

People matter. Diverse opinions and experiences matter. At Virtuos, our talented teams are the cornerstone of our success, and we recognize that fostering and advocating for inclusivity is at the center of what we do best - we make games better, together. Virtuos is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity of thought, expression, culture, and backgrounds.