Lighting Artist - Agency Contract

Playground Games

13h • Hybrid

About The Position

Playground Games is seeking a Lighting Artist to work with its Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa. The role involves working with the Lighting Lead and Art Directors to realise the game's lighting vision, creating and maintaining world-lighting elements, and collaborating proactively with other departments. The successful candidate will have lighting, colour, and composition skills and be able to plan and deliver tasks autonomously to the expected standards.

This is an agency contract. The successful candidate will be employed by the company's agency partner and assigned to work with Playground Games. The position is based at the studio in Royal Leamington Spa under a hybrid working model, with at least three days per week in the studio. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

• Excellent understanding of lighting theory and pipelines.
• Excellent knowledge of cutting-edge real-time lighting techniques.
• Interest in offline 3D rendering.
• Genuine passion for games.
• Lighting, colour, and composition skills, with a track record to demonstrate them.

Nice To Haves

• Experience baking lightmaps.

Responsibilities

• Create lighting setups for open-world environments.
• Create and bake lightmaps for environment assets.
• Set up time-of-day lighting and atmosphere.
• Control weather types and chances.
• Light cinematics.
• Work with the Lighting Lead and Art Directors to establish visual targets.
• Create and maintain elements of world lighting.
• Proactively collaborate with other departments.
• Plan and deliver assigned tasks to the expected standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed