Senior Environment Lighting Artist — Hybrid Onsite (AAA)

Sony Interactive Entertainment; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment's Naughty Dog studio in Santa Monica seeks a Senior Lighting Artist for a hybrid/onsite engagement. You will craft lighting schemes, color palettes, and post-processing effects to create compelling, cinematic environments and support performance goals.

You will collaborate with modelers, texture/shader artists, and external vendors to refine visuals, balance runtime constraints, and deliver high-quality lighting for AAA titles.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of industry experience in Film or Games generating final picture.
• Has shipped at least one AAA game.
• Excellent competency in Autodesk Maya and knowledge of Global Illumination
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with little to no supervision
• Thorough understanding of direct/indirect light, luminance / exposure and color-theory
• Proven work experience with generating light-maps, pre-lighting or baked lighting is desired
• Excellent competency in multi-tasking, being able to handle their own workload as well as having the time to help out other artists where needed

Responsibilities

• Develop the lighting scheme, color-palette, post-processing-fx, and general visual mood that turns unlit 3-D environment models into awesome looking and visually compelling 3D game environments
• Work with modelers and texture/shader artists to optimize the visual look and run-time performance of the Environments
• Work with outsource vendors and lighting artists, collaborating on visual looks, tech, training, and workflows both giving and receiving feedback
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed

Skills

3-5 years of industry experience in F+

Shipped AAA game

Problem-solving skills

Ability to work with little Super‑v

Color theory knowledge

Tools

Autodesk Maya

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment's Naughty Dog studio in Santa Monica seeks a Senior Lighting Artist for a hybrid/onsite engagement. You will craft lighting schemes, color palettes, and post-processing effects to create compelling, cinematic environments and support performance goals.

You will collaborate with modelers, texture/shader artists, and external vendors to refine visuals, balance runtime constraints, and deliver high-quality lighting for AAA titles.