Senior Artist, Lighting

Job Description

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

For the past 25 years Monolith Productions has been obsessed with delivering a unique gaming experience for our fans. Starting with Blood, our very first title – all the way to our most recent offering, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we are constantly pushing the envelope to combine innovative gameplay, inventive narratives, cutting edge tech & AI, and stunning visuals. We are challenging ourselves even further to ensure that our next project is going to be our best yet. That's where you come in – for us to achieve that, we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer. Help us create our next AAA title.

The Job
As a Senior Lighting Artist you will be part of the Lighting team and will collaborate closely with Engine Programmers, Technical Artists, World Artists, Character Artists and FX Artists to implement production tasks. Direction, guidance and style guides will be provided by the Director of Art, World Art Director, and Lead Lighting Artist. You will help in finding solutions to existing and future problems аs well as optimizing workflow, pipelines and lighting techniques.

The Daily
• Responsible for assigned tasks to deliver highest quality in-game lighting.
• Work with Lighting and Technical Art teams to ensure lighting content meets performance standards.
• Help identify and analyze optimizations and work with the team to efficiently execute them.
• Participate in research and development toward improvements in lighting pipelines and quality of game presentation.

The Essentials
• Strong understanding of lighting principles and the fundamentals of digital application.
• Excellent knowledge of lighting/rendering technologies, both offline and real-time in a PBR environment.
• Experience with materials/shaders and their relationship with light.
• Experience with Unreal, Unity, CryEngine or other proprietary game engine.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technical Art or equivalent experience

The Nice to Haves
• Experience in compositing and tone mapping.
• Experience with scripting languages.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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