Technical Lighting Artist

Description

Come join the award-winning God of War development team! Sony Santa Monica is looking for a technical lighting artist to help us create stunning worlds that set the visual fidelity bar for entertainment. This individual will contribute to the artistic vision of amazing, top of class games with a specialized focus on creating realistic and fantastical lighting of characters and environments.
As a team member, you possess the ability to effectively collaborate with the art director and game director to light game levels that are visually stunning while working with a wide range of development team members to ensure technical feasibility. Help us create visuals that set the PS4 apart from the rest!

Responsibilities:

Lighting levels and characters according to defined quality standards, artistic styles, conceptual designs, development pipelines, technical parameters and production goals.
Work with the art director and tech team to establish standards, guidelines and budgets for lighting, exposure, atmospheric effects, color correction, and post-effects.
Facilitates requests or information needs regarding any aspect of the environment/character lighting process as requested.
Generate and maintain documentation for lighting pipeline and process.
Educate and mentor other artists on physical-correctness of lighting values
Testing and verification of lighting and light-baking tools.
Testing and verification of material creation tools.
Helping establish and run verification tests of lighting and material tools. against reference renders.
Actively improves skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods.

Requirements:

5+ years industry experience or related experience.
Experience on 1 or more AAA titles in a similar role
Mastery in lighting fundamentals how lighting effects mood, gameplay, and frame rate in real-time environments.
Proficiency in asset creation software for authoring and organizing game content including but not exclusive to Maya, Photoshop, Perforce etc.
Expert level understanding of physically based materials and workflow. Be prepared to demonstrate your knowledge.
Expert level understanding of physically based lighting and real-world dynamic range. Be prepared to demonstrate your knowledge.
Expert level understanding of photography, color correction and post effects
Strong understanding of global illumination and light baking techniques
Familiarity with photogrammetry
Familiarity with physically based reference renders/path tracers is a plus.
Proficiency in Level art generation in regards to real-time lighting techniques such as vertex baking, light maps, light probes, etc.
Good communication, organizational, time management and interpersonal skills.
B.A. in fine arts or relevant curriculum or equivalent skillset

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC (SIEA) – the creator of PlayStation® - is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC , with oversight for operations in the United States, Canada and Latin America. For over two decades, PlayStation has been a market leader, serving as the ultimate destination for millions of gamers across the world.

SIEA has offices and creative studios in San Diego (San Diego Studios), Los Angeles (Santa Monica Studios), Aliso Viejo (Gaikai), Bend, OR (Bend Studios) and Bellevue, WA (Sucker Punch Productions). It is our immensely talented employees, who are deeply passionate about their love of gaming, which has given us the ability to empower game creators to unleash their imaginations and deliver new gaming experiences. Additionally, SIEA participates in a variety of higher education and high school based programs to help nurture young talent to fulfill their dream of working in the gaming industry.

SIEA provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. SIEA does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. SIEA also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.

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