Senior Lighting Artist [Fixed Term]

Avalanche Studios Group is looking for a Senior Lighting artist to join our team and play an integral part in crafting our upcoming game!As a Senior Lighting Artist, you will have a significant impact on the game visuals while working alongside skilled and passionate industry professionals. You are tasked with developing lighting propositions in cooperation with the art director, and you will oversee the realization of these plans to shape the game's atmosphere. In addition, you will be expected to drive the quality benchmark for your discipline while managing your time to match the project’s goals.

To thrive within our team at Avalanche, proficiency in technical skills is essential, as is a willingness to learn, engage and adapt to our Apex engine and its custom tools. Additionally, working at Avalanche gives you the creative freedom and autonomy to shape the way you create and collaborate, and we operate in a work environment with a high level of ownership and equally important is the communication and collaboration between different disciplines.

To be considered for the position, you need a portfolio demonstrating your artistic abilities and examples of previous work.

 

Create and implement real-time dynamic lighting in an open-world environment. Such as tweaking daycycles and local lighting for both interiors, exteriors, and biomes - taking into account time of day, cutscenes etc.

Develop and maintain documentation and drive best practices for the art pipeline and tools.

Collaborate closely with the Art Director, Lead Artist and other disciplines such as Rendering programmers, Technical Artists, Environment artists and VFX artists, to achieve the visual goals of the project.

Maintain a high visual quality bar for lighting within performance budgets for different platforms.

Come up with creative ideas and innovative solutions to achieve the project vision. 

Provide mentorship and feedback, and act as a point of resource to guide less experienced colleagues.

In-depth experience as a Lighting Artist or similar role in the games industry, with advanced knowledge in real-time lighting techniques.

A deep understanding of color, light, and material authoring in a physically based rendering pipeline and color correction.

Proficient in 3rd party software such as Adobe Photoshop or equivalent.

Excellent problem-solving abilities, both technical and creative.

Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Ability to manage your own time and tasks, set realistic goals, and meet deadlines.

Receptive to feedback and adapts to necessary changes.

Up-to-date with the latest industry trends and techniques.

Proficient verbal and written skills in English.