Senior Lighter
Epic Games
Cary, Bellevue, Larkspur, Culver City, Austin, NC, WA, CA, TX, USA
Job type: Permanent
Job Description
What makes us Epic?
At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.
Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.
Art at Epic
What we do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic.
What you’ll do
Epic Games is looking for a Sr. Lighting Artist to create beautiful and highly realistic real-time lighting for Unreal Engine 5 experiences in film, tv, manufacturing & games.
In this role, you will
Build compelling real-time lighting for environments, interiors, character and props.
Use lighting to emphasize drama or narrative, and to establish/clarify location, weather, time of day.
Work closely with the art, tech art, VFX and dev teams to create real-time lighting solutions that fit within the aesthetic and performance targets.
Challenge yourself to use the most efficient lighting approach possible without sacrificing visual quality.
Use your technical and artistic expertise with lighting to guide Unreal Engine’s continued development and improvement of its lighting features.
Work from reference materials, concepts or come up with your own visual style.
Contribute ideas and visual concepts to the visual development of the project
Use a wide variety of lighting technologies, from highly accurate real-time raytracing down to pre-baked lightmaps.
Skills & Requirements
What we’re looking for
8+ years of production lighting experience in film, television or games
Highly skilled at colour theory, composition, light, and form.
Demonstrated ability to light mechanical, organic and environment assets beautifully.
Excellent aesthetic sense combined with good technical expertise and highly detail oriented.
Familiar with 3ds Max, Maya, Photoshop and 3rd party lighting tools.
Highly motivated, eager to learn.
Nice to have
Real-time lighting experience in production.
Technical expertise in both high end VFX and in game engines.
Experience with node based material editor and/or scripting shaders
About Us
Epic Games spans across 12 countries with 32 studios and 1,800+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.
Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay for 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. We offer coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, AD&D and Life Insurance, 401k.
All Epic employees enjoy drinks, snacks, and lunches every day, free of charge - and we offer plenty of annual celebrations for employees and family members to show the love for our people. Additionally, each year, we celebrate the Epic family with company-wide paid breaks, generous paid time off, and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical - we think our people are pretty awesome!
Additional Information
- Relocation assistance is offered
How to Apply
Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic:
https://epicgames.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Epic_Games/job/Cary-NC/Senior-Lighter_R4135-1
About the Company
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.
Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.