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Cloud Imperium Games
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Manchester, Greater Manchester
Senior Lighting Artist
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Job Description
Cloud Imperium is looking for a Senior Lighting Artist to work in a cooperative, international, cross-disciplinary team environment, who possesses solid artistic skills, including a thorough understanding of color theory, composition, light, and form. They should have experience with a 3D CG package, demonstrating a solid understanding of rendering, lighting, shading networks, polygonal modeling, and texture UV's. They should also demonstrate a strong ability to utilize in-house tools to solve technical problems and improve performance as well as interacting with engineers to help develop new tools and workflows. Responsibilities: * Involved in look-development around key surfaces and shaders to ensure lighting delivers against visual reference * Creating both the exterior and interior lighting within environments and cut scenes * Placing and adjustment of light sources within the environment * Tweaking of shading materials and textures to improve the perception of the lighting * Post processing; color grading, exposure, SSAO, bloom, tone mapping curves etc * Contributing to the development and placement of special effects related to lighting and atmosphere, such as light flares, fog, god rays and camera optics * Prototyping the use of lighting technology to reach the visual targets defined by the art direction * Profile existing and future levels to maximize the quality of lighting on characters and environments while staying within performance budgets Requirements * Experience in creating and shipping AAA quality titles as a real-time lighting artist * Deep understanding of CG lighting technology, both real-time and software rendering * Strong sense of lighting theory; color space, exposure, light fixtures, natural light, reflections etc * Good understanding of cinematography and dramaturgy; the use of camera technology, scene blocking and lighting to set the mood * Good understanding and experience with physical based lighting system * Being pro-active in the use of lighting as a powerful tool in gameplay clarity. For example; to guide the player forward, highlight objectives and enemies * An ability to thoroughly digest the art direction and be a champion for executing it in the game * Skilled at balancing visual quality against performance requirements * Thorough knowledge of the game development process * Great communication skills and an ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance * Working knowledge of Maya, and/or other commercial 3D authoring packages This position is offered at our Wilmslow Studio by Cloud Imperium Games Ltd.