Lighting Artist- 12 Month Contractor - Truro, United Kingdom - Antimatter Games

Antimatter Games

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Truro, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Freelance

Description

Do you want to partner with other great developers to make amazing games? Are you a proven collaborator with experience in a Lighting Artist role on previous published titles for PC or console? Are you high energy, enthusiastic and self-motivated? If all this sounds like you, read on - Antimatter Games may be for you

You'll be bringing your experience and knowledge to our robust art department working on exciting projects

This is a contract position for 12 months.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

You will have a passion for Lighting, for working with other disciplines to make a difference, a passion for solving difficult problems, find solutions and a drive for just making the best games possible.
Working with the Art and Tech art disciplines, you will be involved defining lighting workflow and work collaboratively, while always trying to push for the next level. RnD and implementation would be your first priority task.
Creating high quality artistic and functional lighting for environments and optionally for cinematics
Working with the Art Director close to realize the project's artistic vision and find solutions for imaginations
Work close with other colleagues like Artists, Designers and Programmers to ensure the lighting needs are met and contribute to their development
Join forces with VFX Artist to achieve the best final mood of a level
Ensuring any lighting content created within established budgets.
Ability to optimize the work without a loss in quality
Keeping in mind the technical requirements and limitations

Requirements:

Professional experience as a dedicated lighting artist and completed at least one shipped title
Experience with PBR shading.
Strong knowledge of lighting, grading, colour theory and image composition proven with a strong portfolio
Work with both artistic hand placed lighting as well as with more technical and automatic approaches
Strong Unreal editor knowledge is a must
Keeping up to date with games' cuttingedge techniques
Experience with Unreal Engine's blueprints and Lumen, Ray Tracing
Experience with 3dsmax/Maya and Photoshop preferred
Keen understanding of cinematography

Beneficial Skills

Experience with VFX
Experience with Houdini or other realtime particle system
Experience in cinematic production

Why Antimatter?

AntiMatter Games is Cornwall's largest game development studio.

We developed Rising Storm, PC Gamer's 'Multiplayer Game of the Year', and the critically acclaimed sequel Rising Storm 2:
Vietnam.

Working for Antimatter means working on exciting and innovative video games every day We have a strong company culture, where our employees are encouraged to have an excellent work-life balance.

We want to support our team to become the best developers they can be, whatever their department.

Based in waterside offices in Truro, the UK's most Southerly city, AntiMatter Games' offices are within a few minutes walk of Cornwall's shopping, culture and eating hub.

Accessible by bus or train, and with private car parking, or for the more adventurous, you could kayak to work Perfectly positioned to explore the tranquil South Coast or the crashing Atlantic North Coast, we offer an unrivalled life/work experience for those making games in the UK.

On weekends and evenings, our team can be found cycling, surfing, kayaking, swimming, beachcombing, walking, enjoying live music or capturing beautiful sights by camera.

On rainy days you might find a friendly game of Dungeons & Dragons or a book to read by the fireplace.

Sometimes we also play video games

Other Information

This is a 12 month subcontract, the successful applicant will be responsible for their own local fees (Tax, NI etc), hardware and licences will not be supplied.