Remote Real-Time Lighting Artist

Liquid Development; Orlando (FL); Remote; USD 18,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Career growth opportunities

Medical insurance (Mexico applicants)

Job summary

Liquid Development seeks a Lighting Artist to craft high-quality real-time lighting for GameSim projects and collaborate with Art Directors, Environment Artists, and engineers to translate creative direction into lighting solutions that support mood, readability, and storytelling.

The role involves hands-on production with potential project-lead responsibilities, ensuring scenes meet visual and technical standards and aligning with client expectations. Remote collaboration is emphasized.

Qualifications

• Strong real-time lighting fundamentals and composition.
• Experience lighting gameplay environments or interactive scenes.
• Ability to balance visual quality with production constraints.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.

Skills

Real-time lighting

Lighting fundamentals

Communication skills

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Lumen GI

GPU Lightmass

Profiling tools

Photoshop

DaVinci Resolve

Maya/Blender/3ds Max

Perforce

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Liquid Development seeks a Lighting Artist to craft high-quality real-time lighting for GameSim projects and collaborate with Art Directors, Environment Artists, and engineers to translate creative direction into lighting solutions that support mood, readability, and storytelling.

The role involves hands-on production with potential project-lead responsibilities, ensuring scenes meet visual and technical standards and aligning with client expectations. Remote collaboration is emphasized.