Senior Lighting Artist

Requisition Number: 186517

Position Title: Senior Lighter

External Description:

Cliffhanger Games is a newly formed Seattle Studio focusing on blockbuster action-adventure games and pioneering next-generation emergent storytelling beginning with Marvel’s Black Panther. Join us to pursue your passion to build unique groundbreaking, and inclusive games that empower players to create incredible stories of heroic adventure. Become a foundational part of an ambitious, respectful, and diverse team as we are looking for a Senior Lighting Artist to join our team.

Reporting to the Senior Lighting Director, you will help craft lighting schemes for our worlds, enhancing mood, directing focus, and adding realism with a bit of fantastical elements to our game environments. You have a strong artistic vision, an understanding of lighting principles, and the technical proficiency to bring our game worlds to life. As a Senior Lighting Artist, you will work with the Principal Art Director, Senior Lighting Director, Environment Artists, Presentation Artists, Technical Artists, Designers and Graphic/Gameplay Engineers to create visually stunning and immersive lighting that enhances the player experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement high-quality lighting solutions that align with the artistic direction of the game.
• Collaborate with the Principal Art Director, Senior Lighting Director and other team members to establish the mood, atmosphere, and visual storytelling through lighting.
• Create and optimize lighting setups for environments, characters, and objects within the game engine.
• Use advanced lighting techniques, including dynamic and baked lighting, to achieve realistic and stylized effects
• Create skies and atmosphere procedurally within a game engine combined with external tools or through HDRI/skybox backdrops.
• Troubleshoot and resolve lighting-related technical issues, ensuring optimal performance across different platforms.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior lighting artists, helping to elevate the overall quality of the team's work.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in lighting technology, improving your skills.
• Participate in regular reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers, encouraging a collaborative and creative work environment.
• Collaborate with art, technical art, and engineering team members to ensure our lighting pipeline and set ups are efficient and performant.
• Document and promote lighting pipelines to ensure team clarity on best practices.
• Partner with the Senior Lighting Director, Development Directors, and art leadership on maintaining scope and priorities through the phases of development.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience as a lighting artist in the video game industry.
• Knowledge of industry-standard software and tools, such as Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, 3ds Max, or similar.

We encourage you to apply, even if you don't match every qualification listed above. Let us know why this role appeals to you, why you will be great, what unique perspectives you will bring, and which requirements will challenge you to grow.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 3

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.