Senior Lighting Artist

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Sledgehammer Games, award winning developer of several titles in the Call of Duty franchise, is looking for hard-working developers to join us as founding members of our new Toronto team. This group will partner with our global teams in Foster City, California and Melbourne, Victoria in the creation of epic content for some of the biggest games in the world. This is an opportunity to help grow and craft a AAA team from the ground up, adding new skills to your armoury while gaining the outstanding satisfaction that only comes from building something brand new. Join us on our quest to maintain and improve a balanced and a broad, inspiring studio culture!

The studio is navigating their 2nd decade of game development, focused on constant evolution, innovation and qualified risk-taking – which are some of the most exciting aspects of game development. With outstanding content production and engineering teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We enjoy what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for hard-working game developers for our exciting new projects. We'd love to speak with you.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favourite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent art portfolio.
• New to the industry or 1+ years in the video game industry.
• Solid understanding of lighting fundamentals.
• Knowledge of colour theory and strong sense of light and shadow.
• Understanding of composition and the ability to enhance mood with lighting.
• Use Colour Grading and Post Effects to enhance the final image.
• Solid understanding of industry standard rendering concepts and processes.
• An eye for precision.
• Solid understanding of crafting lighting within a pre-baked light-map pipeline.
• Unreal, Unity, or other Proprietary Engines.

Extra Points:
• Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages.
• Experience with PBR & HDR lighting.
• Knowledge of photography principals and image correction techniques.
• Experience playing Call of Duty or Similar First-Person-Shooters.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g3vz05-3-15-190-144-42 in your application.