Lighting Artist - Fable

Playground Games; Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game studio is seeking a lighting artist to create immersive lighting for their upcoming Fable title. This contract position involves designing lighting for expansive worlds and cinematic scenes. The role requires experience in real-time lighting, strong collaboration, and a passion for pushing visual boundaries.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• Experience in real-time lighting and PBR.
• Solid understanding of lighting principles.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design lighting arrangements for open-world environments.
• Develop atmospheric conditions and time-of-day lighting.
• Collaborate with Lighting Lead and Art Directors.

Skills

Real-time lighting

PBR

Lighting principles

Teamwork

Communication

Job description

As a lighting artist, you will collaboration with Leads, Directors, and multi-disciplinary teams to deliver outstanding lighting for the open world and cinematics to the next entry into the Fable franchise. You will set up time of day cycles, light environments, cinematics and control the atmosphere and mood for this expansive open world game. You will join a world class team of passionate developers and artists who aim to push real-time visuals to new heights.

This is a contract role based at our state-of-the-art facilities in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.

Skills & Requirements

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Design lighting arrangements for our wide-ranging open-world environments.
• Develop atmospheric conditions and time-of-day lighting.
• Regulate various weather types and occurrences.
• Collaborate with the Lighting Lead and Art Directors to align with visual goals.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Experience with real-time lighting, PBR, and a solid understanding of lighting principles, showcased by an online portfolio.
• Knowledge of lighting pipelines and modern art techniques.
• An interest in offline 3D rendering is beneficial.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, ability to manage tasks, meet deadlines, address challenges proactively, and a drive for continuous learning and professional development.

Playground Games is a BAFTA-winning AAA video game developer based in Leamington Spa, UK.

Our mission is to create genre-defining video games for a global audience. Established in 2010, we are the creators of the Forza Horizon series. Since 2012 we have released five installments in the series, each more successful than the last, to establish Horizons one of Xbox’s most important franchises. Forza Horizon 5, released in 2021, is the highest-rated Xbox exclusive this generation. After more than 8 years as an independent studio, Playground was acquired by Microsoft in 2018 and is now a key part of Xbox Game Studios.

In addition to Forza Horizon, Playground is also now the custodian of the legendary Fable franchise, creating one of Xbox’s most-anticipated titles.

Playground combines an unwavering pursuit of excellence with a commitment to build a diverse and welcoming studio where everyone belongs. With that vision it has attracted some of the most experienced, diverse and talented developers from around the world to its three Leamington Spa studios.