Counterplay Games is looking for a Lighting Artist responsible for lighting game levels for our next PC and Console AAA video game developed in Unreal Engine 5. The main responsibilities will be lighting gameplay environments using real time lighting tools to next-gen quality. Lighting Artists work with the Environment Art Director and Lead Lighting Artist to implement various interior and exterior lighting scenarios based on concept art and references. They can expect to prepare game levels and sequences for demos and trailers.

Responsibilities:

• Lights game levels, cinematic sequences, and trailers to a current-gen AAA quality
• Sets up scene lights to match color keys and concept art, with a good understanding of lighting aesthetics and mood
• Troubleshoots medium to large scale scene files and rendering issues
• Optimizes lighting data for memory and framerate
• Diagnoses, fixes bugs and verify the fixes for bugs
• Creates and maintains post-processing FX (fog, color correction, color grading, LUT, filmic, etc.)
• Works with Art Director and Lighting Lead to contribute to the lighting style of project
• Works closely with Environment artists to ensure assets are properly set up and enforced for lighting (distance fields, emissive values etc)
• Works closely with designers to ensure that the correct areas are emphasized for gameplay with a clear player path
• Stays informed about new developments in rendering, particularly with regard to realistic lighting and surfaces

Requirements:

• Experience with shipping a title in Unreal Engine 4/5, leveraging both static and dynamic lighting systems
• Plus: Understands the trade-offs for different Ray tracing implementations
• A minimum of 2 years experience in the gaming or movie industry
• Proactive, self motivated and results-oriented.

Pluses:

• Ability to create and implement lighting blueprints/prefabs
• Experience with scripting / programming languages.
• Experience with physically based and HDR Lighting.