Lead Lighting Artist

Leadership & Team Management Managing dedicated art teams across geographies or studios, emphasizing overall quality, productivity, and continuous team development.Lead and mentor a diverse team of lighting artists, fostering their professional growth and artistic development.Conduct regular performance evaluations, providing constructive feedback and facilitating skill-building opportunities.Identify skill gaps within the team and implement training programs to enhance capabilities and artistic techniques.Lighting CreationCreate 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. Collaboration and ProductionWork 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.Technical Art & OptimisationEnsure 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 pipelinesApply 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.Innovation & Continuous ImprovementStay 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.