Senior Lighting Artist - Treyarch (Los Angeles)
Activision
- Vista, CA
- $80,800-149,400 per year
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Be responsible for crafting gameplay and in-game cinematic lighting based on direction from our Art Directors and Lighting Lead.
- Ensure a high level of quality while maintaining a full production load.
- Ensure that lighting assets meet runtime and disk budgeting requirements.
- Anticipate, identify, and report any potential production problems and communicate those to the Lead.
- Work collaboratively with other departments such as Design, Production, Environment Art, VFX, and Tech Art.
- Work in and maintain an efficient organizational structure for all lighting assets.
- Stay current with industry lighting techniques.
- Demonstrate a high level of creativity and independence.
- Experience in lighting environments and characters with an understanding of gameplay implications.
- Understanding of lighting fundamentals.
- Knowledge of color theory and a strong understanding of light and shadow.
- Excellent sense of composition and the ability to improve the mood with lighting.
- Ability to follow design references and achieve realism.
- Experience with PBR & HDR rendering.
- Photoshop experience.
- Must be proactive and work well in a large team environment.
- 5 or more years of proven experience.
- Experience with Radiant.
- A basic understanding of game scripting.
- Effective use of Color Grading and Post FX to improve final rendered images.
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.