Lighting Artist - Agency Contract

Playground Games is looking for a Lighting Artist to work alongside their talented Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract.

As a Lighting Artist, you will be working with the Lighting Lead and Art Directors to realise the vision for the lighting of Forza Horizon. You will create and maintain all elements of world lighting and proactively drive collaboration with other departments.

Responsibilities:

• Create lighting setups for open-world environments
• Create and bake lightmaps for environment assets
• Setup time of day lighting and atmosphere
• Control weather types and chances
• Light cinematics
• Work with the Lighting Lead and Art Directors to establish visual targets

Requirements:

• Excellent understanding of lighting theory and pipelines
• Excellent knowledge of cutting-edge real-time lighting techniques
• An interest in offline 3D rendering
• Experience baking lightmaps is desirable
• A genuine passion for games

Benefits:

• Opportunity to contribute to a world-class game
• Collaborative team environment
• State-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa
• Hybrid working model with a minimum of three days per week in the studio