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Blackbird Interactive

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201 - 500 employees

Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is a creative-fueled, future-driven, independent studio - behind such games as Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and the upcoming Homeworld 3, Minecraft Legends, and Crossfire: Legion.

📋 Description

• Work under the direction of Art Leadership to maintain artistic consistency through lighting standards and workflows as well as adhere to established IP’s aesthetic guidelines. • Take ownership of lighting direction in collaboration with Art Leadership to establish a strong, cinematic atmosphere and great composition. • Use proprietary engine’s built in lighting tools to produce stunning, cinematic lighting schemes for a range of environments. • Optimize lighting setups, shadows, post-processing, and related systems for real-time performance. • Troubleshoot and resolve lighting, rendering, and visual clarity issues while maintaining artistic intent. • Create and maintain documentation for lighting workflows, standards, and best practices. • Mentor an intermediate Lighting Artist in the production pipeline and provide actionable creative feedback

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ Years of professional experience lighting environments and scenes in a video game production pipeline. • Strong understanding of lighting theory, color space, exposure and physically based natural lighting. • Insight into cinematography and dramaturgy, scene blocking and lighting to set different moods. • Deep understanding of real-time rendering principles and physically based rendering (PBR) workflows. • Experience working with post-processing, exposure, atmospheric effects, and lighting optimization techniques. • Ability to balance artistic quality with technical and gameplay requirements • Familiarity with modern game art pipelines and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. • Highly detail oriented, technically inclined with strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements