Ballistic Moon are looking to hire a Lighting artist to join their Art team and work with the Lead Lighting Artist. This is an important role in the art team and requires a creative artist with a cinematic eye and the confidence to deliver a given art vision.
You’ll employ your problem-solving skills and knowledge of PBR pipelines to collaborate on and delivering cinematic and gameplay lighting setups.
Your responsibilities…
Deliver high-quality lighting solutions to the project benchmarks
Follow the studio guidance for lighting and shading and maintain best practices
Create or oversee lighting work, both in studio and outsourced
Create well written lighting documentation where required
Work with Producers and the Lighting Lead to ensure a realistic project scope
The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role…
2+ years games industry or similar industry (film/tv) experience as a Lighting Artist
Shipped one or more projects through a full development cycle or have professional published work
Experience with lighting in a PBR pipeline/ game engine
Experience in Maya and a good understanding of modern shader libraries; presentation experience in Marmoset, Substance, Vray, Unreal.
Strong communication, interpersonal, presentation and organisational skills, able to interact with other disciplines and outsource teams effectively
Hands on knowledge of lighting, post-pro optimisation and associated technical lighting and colour pipelines
Working knowledge of lighting be it cinematic, traditional or games
Positive and grounded attitude and open to collaboration and working remotely
A passion for games with a good understanding of the games industry, development cycles and professional workflows
Non-essential bonus skills…
Working experience in UE4, Unity and in-house game engines such as Frostbite, the White engine or Decima
Knowledge of various lighting techniques, post-pro editing and a keen interest in cinematography
A good understanding of colour theory and an open approach to stylistic application
Worked within an agile development methodology
Ballistic Moon are a new independent game studio, based in the South East of England who are destined for great things. They are a tight knit passionate team of highly experienced developers, focused on creating exceptional and innovative games for next generation platforms.
The studio is currently working with a AAA publisher in the early stages of pre-production for a major new project as well as creating their own IP.
Following application please be prepared to put together a portfolio showcasing a solid knowledge of lighting work and key discipline traits such as cinematic lighting, colour theory and dynamic vs baked approaches.
