Lead Lighting Artist

Job Description

Lead Lighting Artist

We are located in San Diego, CA but this position can be fully remote from anywhere in the USA & Canada

PlayStation Studios Visual Arts (PSSVA) on our San Diego campus provides world-class content, development, and services to PlayStation Studios. Our team is always at the cutting edge of technology and partners with the industry's best minds and companies

We are looking for a hardworking, and creative Lead Lighting Artist for our next chapter of cinematic storytelling. Become a part of the Visual Arts Group, and work with a multi-award-winning team responsible for the cinematic performances in outstanding Sony PlayStation franchises like Uncharted, The Last of Us, Killzone, and other iconic series.

Responsibilities
• You will collaborate with Environment Artists, Designers, and the Art Director to develop and execute plans for lighting game environments (exteriors and interiors), conversations and cut scenes.
• Place static, skylights, and dynamic lights within the game environment.
• Collaborate in the development of experimental lighting systems and solutions
• Help tune materials to fit within PBR guidelines.
• Set up and manipulate post-process systems including color grading, exposure, tone-mapping, and atmospherics in the scene including volumetric lights, fog, DoF, and Bloom.

Requirements
• 10+ years' industry experience with 5+ shipped titles.
• Experience building lighting pipelines from inception to shipping.
• Experience with lighting and baking in Unreal Engine 4, including managing day/night cycles.
• Ability to be resourceful and come up with creative, attractive, and performant lighting solutions.
• A solid understanding of lighting of characters and scenes for cinematics.
• Strong organizational skills to help keep track of complex and vast lighting solutions.

Preferred
• Experience with Unreal 5.
• Strong technical abilities; knowledge of PBR systems.
• Python scripting, C++

Portfolio Requirements
• A web portfolio that demonstrates a range of lighting examples from previous credited titles.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro32b6-3-15-190-144-42 in your application.