Lighting Artist - 6 week contract

Requirements

Lighting Artist

Lakshya Digital has an exciting opportunity to work alongside the team responsible for the top-selling and critically acclaimed Forza Motorsport franchise. Lighting is an important team role that requires a deep understanding of foundational lighting concepts, real-time rendering pipelines and digital content creation methods.

Job Responsibilities:

•    Work closely with the Lighting Supervisor to help deliver the lighting vision of the game
• Support all fundamental core lighting needs for all teams
•   Carry lighting of environment spaces through from pre-production to final polish
• Help to manage and ensure the integrity of lighting on all assets
• Capably troubleshoot and solve lighting production issues
• Strive to maximize art production performance and predictability
• Stays current on industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, and continually learning new software packages.

Qualifications:

• A strong portfolio that showcases an understanding of light, color, value, and artful composition.
•    Has shipped a AAA title as a Lighting Artist on current generation hardware.
• Carries a fundamental understanding of the physical principals of light and their interactions with object surfaces and other participating media such as atmospherics.
• Proficient with a variety of lighting production pipelines, tools, and systems associated with real-time game lighting. Capable of creating and optimizing high frame rate content with real-time performance in mind.
•   Specific expertise with 3DS Max, real-time digital lighting tools, and 3rd party offline rendering engines.
• Supports the content creation of skybox world environment lighting, dynamic weather systems, and maintaining lighting probes for precomputed light transfer and image-based lighting.
• Exhibits a high level of enthusiasm for studying and analyzing lighting models from other media such as film, illustration, photography, and real-life observation.
• Demonstrates a strong technical aptitude for real-time rendering, offline rendering, physically-based lighting, HDR, color grading, post processing, scripting, and procedural effects
• Demonstrates strong time management and prioritization skills. Capable of ensuring that assignments are progressing on schedule with key milestones and overall project goals in mind.
• A self-starter who can capably problem-solve the common daily production challenges that arise on the project without the direct daily supervision of the Lighting Supervisor.

Benefits

And the perks? Oh, they're pretty sweet:

• Location, Location, Location: Our fully remote team gives you the flexibility to work from home!
• Salary: $50/hour CAD

So, what are you waiting for? Dust off that resume, polish up your portfolio, and get ready to join us on an epic adventure in game development. We can't wait to meet you!

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Role Information: EN
Studio: Lakshya Digital
Location: Americas, Toronto
Area of Work: Art Services
Service: Create
Employment Type: Contract
Working Pattern: Remote