Senior Lighter

Job Description

Art at Epic

What we do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.

What you'll do

Epic Games is looking for a Sr. Lighting Artist to create beautiful and highly realistic real-time lighting for Unreal Engine 5 experiences in film, tv, manufacturing & games.

In this role, you will
• Build compelling real-time lighting for environments, interiors, character and props.
• Use lighting to emphasize drama or narrative, and to establish/clarify location, weather, time of day.
• Work closely with the art, tech art, VFX and dev teams to create real-time lighting solutions that fit within the aesthetic and performance targets.
• Challenge yourself to use the most efficient lighting approach possible without sacrificing visual quality.
• Use your technical and artistic expertise with lighting to guide Unreal Engine's continued development and improvement of its lighting features.
• Work from reference materials, concepts or come up with your own visual style.
• Contribute ideas and visual concepts to the visual development of the project
• Use a wide variety of lighting technologies, from highly accurate real-time raytracing down to pre-baked lightmaps.

What we're looking for
• 8+ years of production lighting experience in film, television or games
• Highly skilled at colour theory, composition, light, and form.
• Demonstrated ability to light mechanical, organic and environment assets beautifully.
• Excellent aesthetic sense combined with good technical expertise and highly detail oriented.
• Familiar with 3ds Max, Maya, Photoshop and 3rd party lighting tools.
• Highly motivated, eager to learn.

Nice to have
• Real-time lighting experience in production.
• Technical expertise in both high end VFX and in game engines.
• Experience with node based material editor and/or scripting shaders

About Us

Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent. ​

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnk7n5-18-221-41-214-42 in your application.