Remote Hero Character Lighting & Look Dev Artist

Workingames; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Hatsu Labs is seeking a Character Lighting & Look Development Artist to own the visual presentation of hero characters in a cinematic narrative game built in Unity URP. You will craft lighting across VN scenes and cinematic vignettes, producing polished promotional renders and key art at multiple quality tiers.

You will collaborate with character and technical artists to achieve emotion, readability, and a distinct visual identity while keeping performance viable on mobile.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Lighting Artist in games, animation, or real-time projects.
• Experience lighting in Unity URP, with at least one shipped real-time project.
• Strong understanding of lighting fundamentals—color, contrast, composition, and mood.

Responsibilities

• Hero Character Lighting: design and implement lighting to enhance readability, mood, and emotion in VN scenes and cinematics.
• Promotional Renders: refine lighting and compositing for key art across quality tiers with distinct visual identities.
• Cinematic Atmosphere: set mood-driven lighting for narrative scenes and cutscenes while keeping characters as the focal point.
• Performance-Aware Implementation: balance baked and real-time lighting in Unity URP for mobile targets.
• Lighting Pipeline: manage HDRIs, LUTs, and post-processing for consistency and flexibility.
• Collaboration: work with character and technical artists to ensure lighting integrates with materials and shaders.

Skills

Lighting artistry

Unity URP

Lighting fundamentals

Mobile lighting

Collaboration

Tools

Unity

Job description

Hatsu Labs is seeking a Character Lighting & Look Development Artist to own the visual presentation of hero characters in a cinematic narrative game built in Unity URP. You will craft lighting across VN scenes and cinematic vignettes, producing polished promotional renders and key art at multiple quality tiers.

You will collaborate with character and technical artists to achieve emotion, readability, and a distinct visual identity while keeping performance viable on mobile.