Lighting Artist

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Keywords Studios

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10,000+ employees

🎮 Gaming

🤝 B2B

💰 Post-IPO Equity - Keywords Studios on 2024-07

Gaming • B2B

Keywords Studios is a technical and creative services company serving the global video games and entertainment industries. The company provides a wide range of services across the game development lifecycle — including localization, QA and testing, game art and audio development, marketing and player engagement, accessibility and post-sound/music — and operates AI solutions and a player support SaaS platform called Helpshift. Keywords partners with game developers and entertainment brands to deliver localization, testing, creative and support services worldwide.

📋 Description

• Create high-quality, visually compelling lighting for environments and cinematics. • Produce lighting that aligns with the project’s artistic direction and storytelling, through mood, tone and atmosphere. • Develop lighting optimized for real-time game engines. • Work closely with the Art Director to maintain the overall art direction. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the production pipeline to ensure artistic consistency and quality. • Participate in reviews, feedback sessions, and iterative development processes. • Ensure lighting meets performance, memory, and platform-specific requirements across a variety of platforms. • Collaborate closely with environment, VFX and technical art teams to integrate lighting with assets and pipelines. • Apply strong understanding of lighting for real-time performance. • Maintain consistency in quality while adhering to technical constraints and engine limitations. • Troubleshoot and resolve creative and technical lighting challenges. • Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, tools, and workflows. • Contribute ideas and improvements to pipelines and production processes. • Continuously push the visual quality and innovation of game art production.

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Lighting Artist within the video game industry, with a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality real-time game assets. • Strong understanding of lighting, composition, colour theory, and visual storytelling. • Experience creating optimized assets for modern real-time game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity. • Strong understanding of lighting tools (Lumen, light baking and post‑processing), performance optimization, and technical limitations across multiple gaming platforms. • Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, communicate ideas effectively, and incorporate feedback throughout production. • Knowledge of game development pipelines and the ability to adapt artistic styles to suit various game genres and target platforms.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely