Technical Artist - Environment And Lighting

Lightforge Games is looking for a Technical Artist!

We're looking for a Technical Artist with expertise in UE4/5 who can set up our art pipeline and help the art team realize their vision.

You'll play a critical role in shaping our game's look and how our artists work. We are open to a wide range of seniority levels with a focus on environments and lighting, asset pipelines and implementation, materials, shaders, and procedural generation.

Tell us about your past experiences and tech art areas of expertise and interest!

Responsibilities

• Discover and innovate creative solutions for procedurally generated environmental assets and lighting solutions.

• Develop the tools and pipelines to allow our design and art teams to ship amazing game content at scale

• Educate and support environmental artists and design teams on asset development and level design best practices

• Ensure game art content is technically correct, functional, and within budget.

• Collaboratively review art assets developed by in-house team members and outsourced teams, helping to ensure that everything we create is achieving our established quality and style standards.

• Tactfully communicate ideas and feedback on how to improve artwork, processes, game design, and company culture.

• Embrace and uphold our Core Values.

• Listening to and empowering the stories of others, while contributing your own story to Lightforge’s development.

Requirements

• Experience in the following areas of technical art:

  • Lighting

  • Shaders

  • Modular Environment Pipelines

  • Materials

  • Procedural Generation

  • Tools & Pipeline Development

  • Performance

  • Asset Implementation

• Fundamental knowledge of color, light, shape design, composition, and movement

• Ability to communicate feedback in a concise and constructive way - including to resources external to the studio

• Self-motivated and proactive, with ability to fully embrace a remote work culture.

Pluses

• Working knowledge of Houdini

• Python knowledge

• Experience with multi-platform games and art requirements, particularly with Unreal

• Character pipeline shader creation experience

If this sounds like a job you might be suited for, but maybe you think you're not quite ready, we’d love to hear from you anyway! You never know what's around the corner...