Senior Lighting Artist

Hundred Star Games • London, CA

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Hundred Star Games is an independent video game developer based in Hackney Wick, East London, founded by Jamie Walker and Sefton Hill, previous founders of Rocksteady and the creative leadership team of Rocksteady’s Batman Arkham series.

Growing to a maximum of 100 people over the next few years, we’re doing things differently at Hundred Star, so we can focus on making great games and building meaningful connections with those we work with.

Our company culture and way of working is unique to the industry and encourages leadership at all levels, autonomy, accountability, team support, sharing vulnerability, and building context, connection, and treating people well.

We’re looking for a Senior Lighting Artist to join our growing studio and bring stunning visual experiences to life for our players.

Working closely with our Lead Lighting Artist and other creative departments within the studio, you’ll play a key role in helping shape and improve lighting across the project and within our Cinematic sequences.

We’re a hybrid studio, with everyone working in studio Tuesday through Thursday, with Mondays and Fridays open to WFH within the UK.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on creating strong interdisciplinary relationships across the studio for ease of problem solving.
• Deep understanding of the craft of lighting in visually communicating intent to guide the player and evoke emotions that add to the overall experience.
• Strong knowledge of lighting aesthetics such as value and colour, shading, PBR and HDR for real-time applications, including optimisation for performance and quality.
• Experience lighting both gameplay spaces and cinematic sequences and achieving seamless flow between them.
• Experience working and achieving best-in-class lighting with highly realistic character performance in cinematics
• Prior experience with real-time lighting in modern game engines.
• Curious when problem solving and comfortable working independently, taking responsibility for the visual quality.
• A broad interest in aspects of visual art including video games (e.g. photography, cinematography, painting, etc.).
• Knowledge of image editing, compositing and professional colour grading software (e.g. Photoshop, Nuke, Davinci Resolve).

Responsibilities

• Build stunning real-time lighting across environments, characters, and cinematics, ensuring a beautiful seamless experience and artistic consistency throughout the game.
• Work closely with Environment Art, VFX, and Design to achieve communicative and cohesive visuals across the project.
• Prototype and deliver visual targets, showcasing the craft of lighting towards gameplay readability, emotional tone, and narrative intent.
• Balance artistic excellence with performance, optimising lighting systems to meet platform and engine requirements.
• Act as a bridge between art and engineering, collaborating to refine rendering features, shaders, and lighting pipelines.
• Drive the development of advanced tooling and workflow processes in partnership with Technical Art and Engineering, to improve efficiency and creative flexibility.
• Ensure timely and consistent lighting delivery, aligning work with production milestones and broader visual goals.

Benefits

• 28 Days Annual Leave
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Private Medical, Cash Plan and Dental insurance through BUPA (Couple and Family cover) - medical history disregarded
• Life, Critical illness and Income Protection benefit
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave and Pay
• Focus on Wellbeing which includes, subsidised gym membership, annual fitness grant, inhouse yoga and fitness classes and discounted massages
• Regular social events throughout the year, including a Summer Wellness Retreat and monthly birthday and milestone celebrations

What This Job Offers

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