Senior Lighting Artist - LAST SENTINEL

Start: Immediate

Duration: 12 month FTC

Location: Liverpool or Remote (UK)

We're looking for a Senior Lighting Artist to work with our Art and Production team on a new PC title with a talented development team.

Responsibilities

• Develop the lighting, colour and mood, and transitions for environments and characters with guidance from Directors and Leads, the Art team, and Design.
• Create dynamic and static lighting setups for environments, characters, and cinematics.
• Balance aesthetic appeal with performance optimization, ensuring that lighting solutions run efficiently on target platforms.
• Work closely with the Art Director, Environment Artists, and Level Designers to achieve the desired look and feel.
• Collaborate with the technical art team to define and implement shaders, post-process effects, and other lighting-related tools.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior lighting artists, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Solve complex technical challenges related to lighting and ensure seamless integration of lighting with other systems (e.g., weather, time of day).
• Contribute to the visual narrative by using light to emphasize mood, highlight key gameplay moments, and guide the player's eye.
• Stay current with industry trends and lighting techniques, incorporating new methods to enhance the game's visual quality.
• Review and implement feedback from Directors.

Required Experience

• Experience of using 3rd party engines such as Unreal Engine
• Excellent understanding of colour theory, composition, and the principles of lighting, to deliver a quality realistic style for compelling game environments and in-game cinematics.
• Strong artistic skills to interpret concept art and colour keys to recreate the mood and atmosphere in a game environment.
• Ability to work in collaboration with artists, designers, coders, tech artists and art directors.
• Knowledge of art pipelines in game development studios.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills, time management, and organisational skills, with the ability to work with minimal supervision.

Desired Experience

• Strong understanding of exposure, direct/indirect light, fog, post processing, and the relation between shaders/materials, albedo, and lighting.
• Excellent competency in industry standard DCC Software utilising Physically-based HDR Lighting and Global Illumination.
• Experience with scripting and shader creation is a plus.
• Experience on AAA console games.
• General understanding of colour grading with proficiency in industry standard software such as Nuke, Fusion, DaVinci Resolve

Benefits:

• Remote and Hybrid Working
• Company pension at 4% of annual salary
• 29 days holidays
• Cycle2work scheme
• Aviva healthcare cover which includes dental and optical
• Life Assurance
• Early Friday finish every last Friday of the month
• Profit Share Bonus & Christmas Bonus

Important:

The interview process for the Senior Lighting Artist role is made up of 2 stages:

• First interview (45 – 60 minutes) – An interview to discuss your experience and working history relating to the position with members of our Art team. In return, we will provide a full overview of the role, life at the studio as well as answer any questions you may have.
• Final interview (30 minutes) – A final Interview with our Studio Head and Studio Production Director. This will be a chance for you to get to know the Senior Management team and all the things that make Lucid, Lucid! You will have a lot of opportunities to ask any questions about the studio and Culture.

Our recruitment process typically takes 2-4 weeks depending on availability. We work our process around your availability and try to be as accommodating as possible. A member of our recruitment team will be in touch prior to your first interview and will keep in contact throughout the process. If you have any specific questions prior to this please contact jobs@lucidgames.co.uk

Lucid Games is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We can provide suitable adjustments during our recruitment processes. Should you require adjustments/flexible arrangements to interview, or take up a role at Lucid, please let us know in the notes/cover letter section of your application. This will not affect your application.