Principal Lighting Artist

The role

The Principal Lighting Artist will drive the technical and aesthetic lighting standards for Judas. This role involves maintaining the HDR pipeline, troubleshooting technical pipelines, and mentoring other lighting artists.

What you will do

• Push the visual and technical quality bar for lighting
• Troubleshoot scalability and quality in execution across the lighting team
• Diagnose and prove out refinements to the technical pipeline and custom tool set
• Collaborate with Art Leadership, Tools, Graphics Engineering, and Tech art
• Uphold aesthetic and technical quality of own work
• Identify and pitch visual and technical quality improvements to project leadership
• Mentor other Lighting Artists and help them solve problems

Required qualifications

• Established experience in the game industry as a Senior to Principal Lighting Artist
• Extensive experience in lighting for real-time gameplay
• Expert eye for value, color, composition and crafting deliberate visual hierarchy reads
• Proficient art and technical experience within Unreal
• Technical experience in balancing game-spanning illumination and emissive standards for adaptive-exposure and HDR
• Familiarity with performance evaluation and optimization
• Experience working with Engineering and Tech Art

Nice to have

• Experience on larger, complex productions
• Unreal 4 preferred
• Passion for deeply narrative driven games, particularly First Person Shooters
• Additional traditional art, lighting, or cinematography background
• Experience working effectively and collaborative with a diverse mix of internal and distributed teams

Benefits

• Medical
• Financial
• Other benefits

About the company

Ghost Story Games is a self-publishing game development studio founded by Ken Levine and former Irrational Games developers. The studio's mission is to create narrative-driven experiences rooted in immersive world building and gameplay.