Lighting Artist – Treyarch (Vancouver)

Yelzkizi; Canada; On-site; CAD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented Lighting Artist to join their dynamic team. This role involves crafting immersive gameplay and cinematic lighting, ensuring high-quality standards while collaborating with various departments. Ideal candidates will possess a strong understanding of lighting fundamentals, color theory, and have experience with PBR & HDR rendering. Join a creative environment where your contributions will help shape the future of gaming and bring extraordinary experiences to players around the world. This is a fantastic opportunity to innovate and grow within a leading game studio.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with Company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid holidays and vacation

Mental health & wellbeing programs

Fitness programs

Free and discounted games

Relocation assistance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in lighting environments with gameplay implications.
• Strong understanding of light, shadow, and composition.

Responsibilities

• Craft gameplay and cinematic lighting based on direction from Art Directors.
• Ensure lighting assets meet runtime and disk budgeting requirements.

Skills

Lighting Fundamentals

Color Theory

PBR & HDR Rendering

Photoshop

Team Collaboration

Game Scripting

Education

4+ years of experience in lighting

Tools

Radiant

Job description

activision.com

Job Description

Treyarch is searching for an exceptional Lighting Artist to join our team. You should have a passion for making games, a technical understanding, and a focus on realistic lighting. Additionally, our ideal candidate would also show examples of environmental lighting they have done for other AAA titles.

What you’ll do…

• Be responsible for crafting gameplay and in-game cinematic lighting based on direction from our Art Directors and Lighting Lead.
• Ensure a high level of quality while maintaining a full production load.
• Ensure that lighting assets meet runtime and disk budgeting requirements.
• Anticipate, identify, and report any potential production problems and communicate those to the Lead.
• Work collaboratively with other departments such as Design, Production, Environment Art, VFX, and Tech Art.
• Work in and maintain an efficient organizational structure for all lighting assets.
• Stay current with industry lighting techniques.
• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and independence.

To succeed you should have…

• Experience in lighting environments and characters with an understanding of gameplay implications.
• Understanding of lighting fundamentals.
• Knowledge of color theory and a strong understanding of light and shadow.
• Excellent sense of composition and the ability to improve the mood with lighting.
• Ability to follow design references and achieve realism.
• Experience with PBR & HDR rendering.
• Photoshop experience.
• Must be proactive and work well in a large team environment.
• 4 or more years of proven experience.

We’d love it if you also have…

• Experience with Radiant.
• A basic understanding of game scripting.
• Effective use of Color Grading and Post FX to improve final rendered images.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

ABOUT TREYARCH

Founded in 1996, Treyarch is a videogame studio whose purpose is to create awesome games for the world to enjoy. With this purpose in mind, we crafted the award winning Call of Duty: Black Ops series and pioneered the fan favorite Zombies mode.

At Treyarch, we empower the team to be individually driven to innovate on our games, processes, and culture. How we do things is just as important as what we do.

Studio culture and development, we believe it’s a team effort and that collaboration and hearing one another is key. Every day we face the large and small challenges together and every voice matters.

These values guide us in our mission to create moments that matter. Both to the players and to us, the creators. In an era where triumphs and defeats are readily shared, seeing players engage with our creations gives us great pride. Come help us create that next moment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

How to Apply

Apply via:https://careers.activision.com/job/ACPUUSR023339EXTERNAL/Lighting-Artist-Treyarch-Vancouver