Senior Lighting Artist
Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden•Sundsvall, Västernorrland County, Sweden
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Job Summary
Join MachineGames as a Senior Lighting Artist to craft visually stunning game worlds, leveraging your expertise in real-time lighting and artistic vision to elevate gameplay and narrative in critically acclaimed titles like Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones.
About this job
MachineGames is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist to join their team in Uppsala, Sweden. This role involves collaborating with art, design, and tech teams to create lighting that enhances gameplay and storytelling, pushing visual quality in real-time environments. The ideal candidate will have a strong artistic eye and a passion for real-time lighting, contributing to critically acclaimed titles.
Requirements
- Have excellent understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure, and physically based natural light
- Have insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods.
- Have experience with 3D graphics programs and game engines (Maya/3ds Max, Blender, Unreal, Unity).
- Have a thorough knowledge of lighting pipelines and techniques, such as baked lightmaps vs. real time global illumination, PBR & HDR lighting.
- Can balance visual quality against performance requirements and production schedules.
- Have a keen eye for artistically and well balanced picture
- Take full ownership of game levels and take them from start to finish.
- Be passionate about Games!
Benefits & Perks
- Relocation support and/or work permit application assistance for non-EU citizens or those not currently residing in Sweden.
- Possibility to work in a hybrid setting.
- Studio culture valuing team performance over individual performance.
- Open door policy.
- Commitment to delivering what is promised.
- Provision of constructive and actionable feedback.
- Practice of ownership and accountability.
- Emphasis on learning from mistakes.
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