Lighting Artist (Senior)

Lighting Artist (Senior)

Title: Lighting Artist (Senior)
Location: BC-Vancouver
The team that brought you Prototype is working on a new and exciting project. We are looking for a talented full time Lighting Artist (Senior) to join our studio for a permanent position.


Job Title: Lighting Artist (Senior) Reports To: Art Director

Division/Department: Production

Basic Function:

Executes lighting composition within game to support art and design direction.

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works with rendering programmers to implement artistic vision into game; provides direction to less experienced artists
- Works with tools programmers to implement tools that are appropriate to the art direction and that create a pleasing look
- Recognizes and troubleshoots lighting issues
- Tunes and polishes to achieve final look and feel
- Manages competing priorities and assists less experienced artists in prioritizing work
- Receives feedback and modifies work based on direction
- Helps establish art style and quality levels
- Ensures consistency and quality of own work and assists less experienced artists as needed
- Understands memory and frame-rate budgets and works within those constraints
- Uses in-house tools as appropriate; provides feedback to improve the tools
- Pushes for the development of processes and technology; focuses on best practices
- Follow schedules and meets deadlines
- Proactively recognizes potential problems and works to limit risk
- Understands how the game engine interacts with the different consoles and makes decisions based on that understanding
- Troubleshoots and seeks solutions; assists less experienced artists with troubleshooting
- Participates in scrum meetings and presents own work

Principal Working Relationships:

Works with artists and programmers to support implementation of lighting compositions.

Position Qualifications:

Educational Requirements:
- Formal art education such as BFA from accredited art or design school or equivalent level of experience required

Special Knowledge, Skills:
- Has a strong sense of light and shadow
- Understanding of 3D lighting including shaders, radiosity, ray-tracing, HDR, vertex lighting, dynamic lighting, light maps and colour theory
- Knowledge of third party off-line rendering software (Mental Ray, V-Ray, Renderman) required
- 2D illustration, set design, photography, cinematography, graphic design, art history knowledge and/or scripting knowledge a plus

Prior Experience/Previous Positions related to current position:
- Greater than five years of professional experience required
- Has shipped more than one AAA title or possesses equivalent experience from a related industry

Other Qualifications and/or Requirements:
- Ability to build collaborative relationships and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner
- Provides others the information that they require to make decisions
- Communicates in a clear and succinct manner, considering the audience
- Ability to plan own work and the work of others
- Properly estimates time to complete work, manages competing priorities and builds in buffers
- Takes risks, makes mistakes and takes steps to prevent repeat mistakes
- Understands the impact of decisions on other disciplines
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