Senior Lighting Artist

Job Description

Infinity Ward, developer of numerous award winning games, is seeking a Senior Lighting Artist, preferably with experience in game development and an interest in working with next-generation technologies. If you are a Senior Lighting Artist and have experience shipping AAA titles with visually stunning lighting aesthetics, then we are looking for you!

Responsibilities:
• Work with Level Designers, Environment Artists, Visual Effects Artists, and Team Leads to provide lighting for game environments
• Creation of static and dynamic lighting using our proprietary game engine software
• Manage lighting solutions within our memory and performance guidelines
• Create and manage textures and IES light profiles for modulating lighting effects
• Solve technical issues that arise with new tools or game performance

Requirements:
• 5+ years of lighting experience on current console hardware
• Solid understanding and experience with creating lighting within a pre-baked light map pipeline
• Understanding of composition and the ability to enhance mood by lighting
• Excellent working knowledge of Photoshop and 3ds Max or equivalent
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both Artists and Programmers in a large team
• Work samples must show excellent real-time lighting made for next generation console games
• Knowledge of color theory and strong sense of contrast, light and shadow
• Working knowledge of common industry rendering programs
• Ability to follow design reference and Art Direction, and an ability to work within a wide range of styles
• Experience with Radiant
• Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d285m2-3-133-131-168-42 in your application.