Description
At Criterion Games, we're looking for a talented Lead Lighting Artist to join our team. As a Lead Lighting Artist, you will be responsible for providing creative and technical solutions to add visual quality to our game while keeping in mind technical performance limits. You will lead a small team of lighting artists and collaborate with other departments and studios to deliver high-quality lighting on time and to specification.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing consistent and effective direction and guidance to the lighting team across levels and cinematics
- Collaborating with other leads in the franchise to ensure pipelines and workflows are up to production standards
- Specifying and working along with engine, graphics, and tools teams to design and implement workflows, techniques, and approaches to the lighting craft and set visual goals
- Providing guidance to other team members to work through technical and creative solutions
We're looking for someone with excellent knowledge of lighting, shading, and PBR for real-time applications, including optimization for performance and quality. Experience shipping AAA titles on current-gen consoles is also required. Additionally, knowledge of color grading approaches and a passion for the technical side of real-time lighting are highly desirable.
If you're a motivated and experienced lighting artist looking for a new challenge, please apply!