Lead Lighting Artist

4 months ago


City of London United Kingdom Skillsearch Limited Full time

Do you have game Lead Lighting Artist experience, and are you seeking a new job in London? Skillsearch is helping a respected studio recruit a Lead Lighting Artist, and the role comes with an excellent salary and benefits package.

As a Lead Lighting Artist, you will play a meaningful role in our new project, driving, directing, and crafting a cohesive vision for our universe. Your unique skills will allow you to heighten our gameplay, herd our player's emotions and craft a striking benchmark of image quality.

In your first few weeks in this Lead Lighting Artist role, you can expect to:

Be accountable for the delivery of high quality and optimised Lighting across our projects, to time and budget, whilst amplifying our artistic value at scale 

Establish Art Direction, Visual Style, Quality and Metrics for lighting and weather for all the artists on our projects 

Ensure an efficient production for our Lighting, be accountable for developing and maintaining the team’s processes, workflows, and documentation, and confirm expectations are accurate, communicated and understood 

Optimise, automate and identify risks and issues across Pipelines and Workflows, proactively seeking and supervising the implementation of solutions. 

To apply for this Lead Lighting Artist role, you will need to be creative at heart and have experience as a Senior Lighting Artist, Lead Lighting artist and delivery of high-performance, high-quality Lighting for AAA titles. You will also require the following:

Knowledge of colour theory, which can include art history and the principles of art 

Composition and the ability to enhance mood and tell stories through lighting, including lighting’s use and effect on gameplay 

Technical understanding of art content creation pipelines and budgets, with a knowledge of potential issues that can arise in the area of real-time lighting 

In return for your dedication, collaboration and commitment, you'll receive a generous salary and benefits package and join a welcoming and inclusive culture.

We'd love you to apply for this full-time Lead Lighting Artist position in London, and we're waiting to hear from you. Please contact Sam from Skillsearch at sr@skillsearch.com today.

At this studio, they love storytelling, it inspires and drives everything they do. The organisation has defined gaming for generations, and their collective studios and teams span the globe. Between them, they advance gaming and the positive impact it has on people's lives.

Why London?

London is the largest UK hub for the games industry, with around 588 studios, employing more than 5000 people, the economic impact of games in the capital is huge. From micro studios and indies to enormous global publishers, for a city that is leading in financial services, heritage and diversity, the creative industry certainly isn't falling behind Find our guide to working in games in London here.

Here at Skillsearch, we're a recruitment company. In the simplest form, this means we place people at new companies - but it's so much more than that. For the past 30 years, we've been busy helping people (like you) with sought after skills find jobs in the Games, Interactive and Enterprise Systems industries all around the globe. Our company comprises a team of dedicated consultants that work across various niche technologies, including Games, Virtual Reality, AR and XR, Workday, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and eCommerce. We are always exploring other cutting-edge markets. Follow us to see a few of the jobs we're working on, find out which events you can see us at, and keep up with news in the technology, gaming and interactive world. Welcome to Skillsearch


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