Artist

• Light large-scale game environments in Unreal Engine 5, establishing mood, readability, and visual hierarchy across a full day/night cycle
• Own lighting for assigned levels from initial blockout through final polish
• Create and integrate sky art for dynamic time-of-day systems
• Balance lighting, atmosphere, color, and exposure for cohesive outdoor environments
• Use color, value, contrast, and composition to guide the player’s eye and reinforce emotional tone
• Create and work with fog, haze, scattering, clouds, and other atmospheric effects
• Create materials and light functions within Unreal Engine
• Collaborate with senior artists, art leads, and other disciplines while incorporating feedback
• Optimize lighting and related systems for visual quality and performance
• Create skybox assets including clouds and celestial bodies

Lighting Artist – Contract

• Own game spaces from blockout through final polish, balancing gameplay layout with visual composition, staging, lighting, and world-building
• Create, refine, and integrate pre-generated assets into cohesive, playable game environments
• Make decisions about player flow, composition, sightlines, and navigation
• Build and polish environments in Unreal Engine
• Manage streaming, HLODs, draw calls, frame budgets, and memory budgets to meet performance targets
• Use Unreal PCG and Houdini for world-building and asset placement workflows
• Implement level features, triggers, and interactives using Unreal Blueprints
• Collaborate with design, art, and engineering teams
• Own spaces across multiple development stages through shipped, cancelled, or personal projects

Senior Artist

• Create compelling lighting for a variety of characters and environments while maintaining a consistent style
• Work with the supervisor and leads
• Understand and apply basic lighting principles and mimic established lighting setups
• Solve creative and technical problems with new tools and techniques
• Ensure aesthetic continuity across all deliverables
• Generate final renders for approval

Lighting Artist

• Create sequences of shots from storyboards and/or script pages to enhance the story
• Establish character blocking and camera positioning
• Animate camera movement
• Create realistic and compelling character animation following the 12 principles of animation
• Animate creatures, props, and vehicles
• Use motion blur, depth of field, and other effects to create realism
• Clean up and accentuate motion-capture animation
• Maintain high standards of quality and speed
• Understand shot continuity within sequences to guide shot creation
• Work with the previs supervisor and take direction
• Participate in agile creative teams supporting major studio productions
• Potentially work at various production locations for major studio clients

Artist jobs in United States

Lighting Artist – Contract

Senior Artist

Lighting Artist

Previsualization Artist