Senior Lighting Artist

Job Description

Senior Lighting Artist (Contract)

Senior Lighting Artist

This is a long-term contracted position through our staffing partner DZConneX with a high likelihood of extension.

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 highly talented, motivated and creative Senior Lighting Artist for the next chapter of cinematic story-telling. Here is your chance to be a part of the multi-award winning team responsible for the cinematic performances in world-class Sony PlayStation franchises like Uncharted, The Last of Us, Killzone, and other iconic series.

Responsibilities:
• Build cinematic and environmental lighting using a variety of cutting edge proprietary game engines.
• Work closely with developers to understand proprietary engine's workflows, and with the Lighting Supervisor to understand and deliver the developer's sense of vision for the look of the game title.
• Maintain a solid understanding of the game's design to support communication and allow better discussions.
• Actively develop and improve skill set and abilities by keeping aware of industry trends and techniques, evaluating competitive products, and learning new software packages and traditional art methods.
• Demonstrate strong time management and prioritization skills by collaborating with the Production group to develop task lists, ensuring assignments are progressing according to schedules, milestones and overall project goals.

Requirements:
• 5+ years' industry or related experience.
• Experience shipping AAA published titles with current-gen game engines.
• Extensive knowledge of lighting production pipelines, tools, and systems associated with traditional, software rendering and game lighting.
• Highly refined understanding of the process of creating photo-realistic lighting including lighting theory and ratios, lenses and post processing for lens effects.
• Strong technical abilities including knowledge of PBR systems.
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to understand complex systems.
• Extensive knowledge of Maya.
• Unreal or Unity experience highly desirable.
• Experience working in a command line environment desirable.
• Knowledge in Python scripting, C++ is a bonus.

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxkk3z-18-116-36-192-42 in your application.