Lead Lighting Artist Vic/SA/Qld
ApplyLeadership & Team Management
- Managing dedicated art teams across geographies or studios, emphasizing overall quality, productivity, and continuous team development.
- Lead and mentor a diverse team of lighting artists, fostering their professional growth and artistic development.
- Conduct regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback and facilitating skill-building opportunities.
- Identify skill gaps within the team and implement training programs to enhance capabilities and artistic techniques.
Lighting Creation
- Create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics.
- Produce lighting that aligns with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling, through mood, tone and atmosphere.
- Develop lighting optimized for real-time game engines.
Collaboration and Production
- Work closely with the Art Director to maintain the overall art direction.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality.
- Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes.
Technical Art & Optimisation
- Ensure lighting meets performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms.
- Collaborate closely with environment, VFX and technical art teams to integrate lighting with assets and pipelines
- Apply strong understanding of lighting for real-time performance.
- Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical lighting challenges.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows.
- Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes.
- Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production.
Benefits
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Experience & Requirements
Required Skills and experience
- Experience leading art teams and projects.
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and guide a team towards achieving project goals.
- A keen eye for detail and strong observation skills.
- Extensive experience as a Lighting Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game assets.
- Strong understanding of lighting, composition, colour theory, and visual storytelling.
- Extensive experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
- Strong understanding of lighting tools (Lumen, light baking and post-processing), performance optimization, and technical limitations across multiple gaming platforms.
- Extensive knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms.
Desirable skills and experience
- Passion for gaming and a strong understanding of market trends, player expectations, and gaming cultures across PC, Console, and Nintendo platforms.
- Experience successfully guiding and communicating with other art teams to ensure artistic vision and asset quality are maintained from concept through to final in-game implementation.