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Liquid Development

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

🥽 AR/VR

Gaming • AR/VR

Liquid Development is an industry leader in video game integrated development and art asset production. With over twenty years of experience, their work is featured in some of the most popular video games, such as the Halo franchise by 343 Industries, Borderlands by Gearbox Software, and Activision's Call of Duty. They specialize in 3D production, creating real-time rendered assets and pre-rendered cinematics, and provide world-building and 2D design services. Liquid Development aims to support game developers by providing comprehensive art and development solutions to enhance the creation of new game content.

📋 Description

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences. • Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions. • Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus. • Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements. • Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing. • Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects. • Maintain visual consistency across related environments, gameplay spaces, sequences, times of day, and lighting conditions. • Bring assigned scenes from initial lighting setup through final polish. • Respond to feedback from Art Direction, project leadership, and clients in a timely and professional manner. • Ensure completed work meets project requirements for quality, performance, organization, and delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience creating lighting for games, real-time projects, animation, visualization, or a closely related field. • A portfolio or reel demonstrating strong real-time lighting work. • Strong understanding of lighting fundamentals, including value, color, contrast, composition, visual hierarchy, atmosphere, exposure, shadow, and material response. • Experience lighting gameplay environments or interactive real-time scenes. • Understanding of how lighting supports mood, gameplay readability, navigation, environmental storytelling, and player focus. • Professional experience using Unreal Engine or another modern real-time engine. • Experience with dynamic or baked lighting, global illumination, reflections, volumetrics, exposure, color grading, and post-processing. • Working knowledge of physically based rendering and material response. • Understanding of basic lighting optimization, including light cost, shadows, volumetrics, reflections, scalability, and platform constraints. • Ability to take ownership of assigned scenes and follow them through review and completion. • Ability to receive, interpret, and implement artistic and technical feedback. • Experience reviewing artwork or providing constructive feedback to teammates. • Ability to identify work that does not meet an established quality target and communicate practical improvements. • Ability to balance visual quality, technical requirements, production scope, and schedule. • Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. • Ability to organize priorities, communicate risks, and follow work through to completion. • Experience collaborating with multiple game-development disciplines. • Ability to adapt to different projects, visual styles, engines, pipelines, platforms, and client expectations. • Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a distributed team.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work alongside dynamic individuals in the gaming industry • Work within a company with upward career growth opportunities • Work Fully Remote • Comprehensive statutory benefits: social security, 12 days of annual leave, 30 days' Christmas bonus, and a 25% vacation premium. • Major and minor medical insurance • Savings fund • Grocery vouchers ($1244.88 MXN)