Description
Deck Nine Games is currently hiring a
full-time, remote Lighting Artist for an unannounced narrative
adventure game. You aim to improve workflows, embrace constructive feedback,
thrive in a highly collaborative environment, and will proactively seek
opportunities to elevate the game.
Ultimately, the ideal candidate has a strong
sense of how lighting contributes to tell a deeply compelling story and
possesses broad technical skills that compliment an artistic eye.
APPLY HERE: https://deckninegames.com/careers/
Responsibilities
- Responsible for lighting game environments in AAA titles
with the highest level of quality.
- Contributing to the development and placing of visual
effects related to lighting and atmosphere.
- Work closely with Art Director and team leads to help
define and execute the lighting direction for the project.
- Assist graphics engineers in designing, implementing,
testing, and maintaining lighting pipelines.
- Help to identify improvements and efficiencies within
our lighting pipeline to speed production and reduce costs at run time.
- Research new lighting tools and techniques to create
more efficient and visually appealing environments.
- Work with engineering to manage environment lighting to
run efficiently, cleanly, and to fit into the established memory limits.
- Collaborate with Programmers, Tech Art,
and other members of the team to improve our tools and pipelines.
- Create, maintain, and communicate documentation for
lighting guidelines and implementation techniques.
- Work within and anticipate different production and
technical constraints and understand the budgeting restrictions associated
with them.
- Participate in giving & receiving
critique to ensure scenes are as impactful as they can be.
- Author post processing effects such as color grading,
exposure, tone mapping, bloom, etc.
Requirements
- Must submit portfolio/demo
reel
- 2-3 years of experience minimum in AAA game development
or credit on at least one AAA title as lighting artist.
- Understanding of game lighting fundamentals required,
experience with physically-based rendering pipelines preferred.
- Experience lighting environments and characters with an
understanding of gameplay implications and performance requirements.
- Knowledge of color theory and a strong sense of light
and shadow.
- Understandings the use of lighting to enhance mood
within a scene.
- Ability to give feedback to more junior lighting
artists.
- Working knowledge of industry standard rendering
concepts and post-processing effects, preferably within the Unreal Engine.
- Ability to follow concept/reference and ability to work
with wide range of styles with minimal concept and direction.
Pluses
- Experience creating color key images to
guide lighting.
- Passion for games and storytelling.
- Proficiency with Premiere (or Davinci
Resolve), After Effects, Photoshop, UE5
- A familiarity with narrative driven
adventure games (Life is Strange, Detroit: Become Human, Wolf Among Us,
etc).
Benefits
·
Competitive salary depending on
experience
·
Generous vacation time and paid
parental leave
·
Health insurance for you and your family
at a low cost to you
·
Dental and Vision insurance for you
and your family at NO cost to you
·
Life and Disability benefits at NO cost
to you
·
Optional Flexible Spending
Account (including Healthcare and Limited Purpose), Dependent Care
Account, and Health Savings Account available
·
Optional Supplemental Health and
Life Insurance
·
401(k) Plan with an Employer Match
·
Growth opportunities for your career
Salary Range: DOE
About Deck Nine
Here at Deck Nine Games our passion is
storytelling games. We are an independent game developer dedicated to crafting
AAA interactive story games that inspire, transform, and entertain players. In
2021 we released Life is Strange True Colors, which went on to win multiple
awards for storytelling and visuals, including best storytelling for 2021 and a
VGA for Games for Impact. Recently we announced that we are developing a game
for the hit sci-fi Amazon series, The Expanse. Our prior titles have won
multiple awards, including Game of the Year and nominations for VGA and BAFTA
awards. The studio is 150+ amazing people both located in our headquarters in
sunny Westminster, Colorado and spread throughout the world permanently remote.
As the crafters of stories that encompass the
full breadth of life’s experiences, Deck Nine is committed to building a
diverse, inclusive, and multicultural team in which people from all walks of
life feel inspired to do their best work. We are proud to be an equal
opportunity employer and believe deeply in the creativity and strength built
from diversity of race, religion, disability, gender, gender identity and
expression, sexual orientation, nationality, and the many other qualities that make
us different.
If this sounds appealing to you, please apply
now!