The lighting will work next to Art direction and art teams to provide lighting solution to environments as well as characters and other important assets. With big impact on performance and gameplay, the lighting artist will also have be responsible for lighting optimizations as well as working with level designers to ensure the best gameplay experience.
Responsibilities:
- To create lighting for game environments in line with company’s quality and functionality requirements, while in coordination with art direction, art teams and Level design.
- To create lighting for menus as well as for character showcase and other important game assets.
- Proactively check environment art progression to early find spots which can be useful for lighting work and sync with artists.
- To place and maintain all the technical lighting elements in the environments (probes etc).
- To be responsible for lighting optimization, defining alternatives which work on lower end platforms when required, as well as bug fixing.
- To create the meshes and textures required to fulfill lighting needs.
- Proactively looking for improvements in both, workflow and techniques.
Requirements:
- +3 years of experience in video game production with a track record of shipped projects on which there is a clear input in final lighting.
- Very good Technical knowledge about how real-time and pre-rendered lighting solutions works in videogames.
- Skilled at creating artistically pleasant, high quality lighting for any situation.
- Basic 3D modeling/texturing skills.
- Ability to generate realistic, high quality skybox textures using 3d or specialized software.
- Basic visual arts knowledge (composition, contrast, color…)
- Very communicative, team player, always in contact with other stakeholders.
- Organized and consistent working methodology.
Assets:
- Comprehension of the technical budgets of game development, and optimization techniques
- Previous experience as environment artist is a plus.
- Experience in character and or car lighting is a plus.
Why Join the World of Gameloft?
Because you want to be part of an exceptional experience within a company that is constantly growing!
Because you want to work with talented people who are industry pioneers!
Because you want to be part of an international environment with daily contact with other countries & cultures!
Because you want to work in an inclusive equal opportunity workplace!
Or, just because you’re looking for a great place to work!
Benefits:
- Permanent contract, full-time job with excellent Social Benefits.
- 25 vacation days per year
- Private medical health insurance
- Flexible compensation with Ticket Restaurant Card
- Free language courses
- Birthday day off + option to work a shortened schedule on three days.
- Flexible work-from-home hybrid model
- Merit based salary progression system and a competitive initial salary package.
- Career-development opportunities.
- Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).
- ... and Tuesday and Thursday afterwork beers!
- We can’t wait to find our next great talent!
We're looking for gamers from all walks of life to join our team! We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where everyone feels welcome, respected, valued, and empowered to do their best work. To do so, we joined hands with organizations such as FemDevs and COGAM, who are helping us to create a safe workplace where gamers can come together (no matter what their background culture or identity is) and create amazing experiences for our players.
Whether you're a casual gamer or a hardcore e-sports competitor, and regardless of the platform you prefer (we’re a cross-platform dev Studio now!) we want you to feel like you belong to our team.
Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted and your CV will be saved in our files for a period of 6 months.
Want to know more? Please visit our website: www.gameloft.com
