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Senior Lighting Artist – 7-month Contract
Location
Canada
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$90K - $110K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Lighting Artist – 7-month Contract
Blackbird Interactive
• Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines. • Take ownership of lighting direction in collaboration with Art Leadership to establish a strong, cinematic atmosphere and great composition. • Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments. • Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance. • Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent. • Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices. • Mentor an intermediate Lighting Artist in the production pipeline and provide actionable creative feedback
Job Requirements
- 5+ Years of professional experience lighting environments and scenes in a video game production pipeline.
- Strong understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure and physically based natural lighting.
- Insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods.
- Deep understanding of real-time rendering principles and physically based rendering (PBR) workflows.
- Experience working with post-processing, exposure, atmospheric effects, and lighting optimization techniques.
- Ability to balance artistic quality with technical and gameplay requirements
- Familiarity with modern game art pipelines and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly detail oriented, technically inclined with strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
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