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Lighting Artist | Artiste en éclairage - GameSim - Talent Pipeline

RemoteCanada only
Published
Employment
Full-time
CAD 65k–CAD 70k/yr
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No BS summary

Lighting Artist (real-time game lighting). Requires professional experience with real-time engines (Unreal Engine or similar) and a portfolio/reel. Open to candidates residing in Ontario, Quebec, or British Columbia, Canada.

Core skills

Unreal EngineLumen

Required skills

Unreal Engine 5GPU LightmassCPU Lightmassreal-time profiling toolsPhotoshopDaVinci ResolveNukeAfter EffectsMayaBlender3ds MaxPerforceJiraConfluenceMiro

Optional skills

NaniteVirtual Shadow MapsBlueprintsPythoneditor scriptingautomation

What you'll do

  • Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
  • Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
  • Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
  • Provide feedback, review the work of other lighting artists, and help ensure lighting follows visual targets and technical standards.
  • Work with Technical Art and Engineering to ensure lighting is visually effective, technically stable, and meets performance constraints.

What they require

  • Professional experience creating lighting for games, real-time projects, animation, visualization, or a closely related field.
  • A portfolio or reel demonstrating strong real-time lighting work.
  • Professional experience using Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine.
  • Experience with dynamic or baked lighting, global illumination, reflections, volumetrics, exposure, color grading, and post-processing.
  • Working knowledge of physically based rendering and lighting optimization (performance, scalability, shadows, reflections).

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on different projects
  • 3 weeks of paid leave
  • Benefits package including medical, dental and vision
  • Sick Leave
  • Disability Coverage
🇺🇸 United StatesGaming
CAD 65k–CAD 70k/yr