Senior Lighting Artist - Dead By Daylight

2 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Behaviour Interactive seeks a Senior Lighting Artist to contribute to their Dead by Daylight project. Responsibilities include collaborating with art and technical teams to establish the game's visual style, defining lighting workflows and benchmarks, designing lighting systems that support both visuals and gameplay, maintaining consistent quality within artistic and technical constraints, and providing feedback on lighting pipelines and tools. The ideal candidate possesses professional game lighting experience, a strong understanding of art fundamentals, PBR/PBL, rendering techniques, and advanced lighting technologies like Lumen. They will create immersive lighting across multiple platforms, enhancing player experience through beautiful lighting solutions.
Must have:
  • Game lighting experience
  • Art fundamentals knowledge
  • PBR/PBL understanding
  • Rendering expertise
  • Advanced lighting tech knowledge

Job Details

Are you ready to dive into the world of cutting-edge video game development? Headquartered in Montreal, Behaviour Interactive is at the forefront of the gaming industry, crafting unforgettable experiences across PC, console, and mobile platforms. We’re a dynamic, independent studio of over 1200 passionate employees, with studios in Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) and in the UK (Behaviour UK–North & South). Our day to day revolves around two core business focuses: Services and Original Games. Our Services team collaborates with gaming and entertainment giants like Disney, Sony, Activision, and Nintendo, delivering exceptional work-for-hire development and pioneering immersive location-based entertainment (LBE). Meanwhile, our Original Games unit pushes our creative limits, with our signature IPs, including the iconic Dead by Daylight. Join us and be a part of the future of interactive entertainment!

At Behaviour Interactive, we believe in giving everyone a fair shot. We embrace a diverse and creative environment where everyone is celebrated. We value folks of all ages, sex, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, civil status, disability, or any other protected characteristics as per applicable law.

Behaviour is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to join our talented Dead by Daylight team. If you have experience crafting immersive lighting for games across multiple platforms, we want you to be a key contributor to our exciting project. Your expertise in lighting composition, mood setting, and technical optimization will play a vital role in defining the game's atmosphere. With a strong balance of artistic vision and game design principles, you’ll enhance the player experience through creating beautiful lighting solutions. Your autonomy, resourcefulness, and keen eye for detail will be essential in shaping the visual identity of our world.

In this role you will :

    • Work with the technical and art teams to develop the visual style and validate the quality of the lighting. 
    • Study the game documentation to understand the experience we want to offer our players. 
    • Define workflows and create visual benchmarks. 
    • Be familiar with visual references to respect the project’s artistic direction, and make suggestions regarding atmosphere and lighting. 
    • Design lighting systems that will support the visual style and gameplay. 
    • Maintain a consistent level of quality while respecting artistic and technical constraints. 
    • Provide feedback on developing lighting pipelines and tools by tracking and reporting progress regularly.

What we’re looking for:

    • Professional experience designing lighting for games and solid technical knowledge of how to create runtime lighting in game engines. 
    • Strong understanding of art fundamentals and design including composition and colour theory. 
    • Strong understanding or PBR and PBL fundamentals.
    • Very good knowledge of rendering, both offline and real-time.
    • Understanding of Global Illumination, Lumen, or other advanced lighting technologies.
Behaviour recherche un·e Artiste d'éclairage sénior·e pour rejoindre notre talentueuse équipe de Dead by Daylight. Si tu as de l'expérience dans la création d'éclairages immersifs pour des jeux sur plusieurs plateformes, nous voulons que tu sois un·e contributeur·rice clé à notre projet passionnant. Ton expertise en composition d'éclairage, en création d'ambiance et en optimisation technique jouera un rôle vital dans la définition de l'atmosphère du jeu. Avec un équilibre solide entre vision artistique et principes de conception de jeu, tu amélioreras l'expérience des joueurs·ses en créant de belles solutions d'éclairage. Ton autonomie, ton ingéniosité et ton sens aigu du détail seront essentiels pour façonner l'identité visuelle du monde Dead by Daylight.

Prêt·e à plonger dans le monde du développement de jeux vidéo à la pointe de la technologie ? Basé à Montréal, Behaviour Interactif est un acteur majeur de l’industrie du jeu, créant des expériences inoubliables sur PC, console et mobile. On est un studio indépendant dynamique avec plus de 1200 employés passionnés, et on a des studios à Toronto (Behaviour Toronto), Rotterdam (Behaviour Rotterdam) et au Royaume-Uni (Behaviour UK–North & South). On se concentre sur deux grands axes : les Services et les Jeux Originaux. Notre équipe Services collabore avec des géants du jeu et du divertissement comme Disney, Sony, Activision et Nintendo, en offrant un développement sur commande de premier choix et en innovant dans le divertissement immersif en lieu fixe (LBE). Pendant ce temps, notre unité Jeux Originaux repousse les limites de notre créativité avec nos IPs emblématiques, comme le fameux Dead by Daylight. Rejoins-nous et fais partie de l'avenir du divertissement interactif !

Chez Behaviour Interactif, on croit en l’équité des chances pour tout le monde et on célèbre la diversité des personnes, des perspectives et des idées. C’est donc important pour nous de travailler avec des talents qui proviennent de tous les horizons, et ce, indépendamment de leur âge, sexe, ethnicité, couleur, origine ethnique ou nationale, religion, orientation sexuelle, identité de genre, statut familial, handicap ou toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois applicables. 

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