Lead Lighting Artist / Chef.fe d’équipe Éclairage

Responsibilities

• Translate artistic direction into lighting setups that support mood, atmosphere, realism, and visual storytelling.
• Own the execution of level lighting across environments, gameplay, and cinematic contexts.
• Lead and manage the lighting team, providing mentorship, feedback, and direction.
• Ensure consistency and quality of lighting across large-scale worlds and varied content.
• Collaborate closely with World, Character, VFX, Design, and Tech Art teams for proper integration.
• Ensure lighting setups meet both artistic and technical requirements, including performance constraints.
• Optimize lighting across environments for scalability from high-end to mobile platforms.
• Support production planning, milestone readiness, and workflow efficiency.
• Review and validate lighting implementation to ensure alignment with visual direction and technical standards.
• Maintain visibility on quality, risks, and production challenges across lighting content.
• Ce rôle est responsable de livrer un éclairage de haute qualité qui soutient l'ambiance, le réalisme, la lisibilité et la narration à travers une grande variété d'environnements et de contextes de gameplay.
• Responsabilités
• Traduire la direction artistique en setups d'éclairage soutenant l'ambiance, l'atmosphère, le réalisme et le storytelling visuel.
• Assumer l'exécution de l'éclairage des niveaux à travers environnements, gameplay et contextes cinématiques.
• Encadrer et gérer l'équipe d'éclairage, en assurant mentorat, feedback et direction.
• Assurer la cohérence et la qualité de l'éclairage à grande échelle et sur des contenus variés.
• Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes World, Character, VFX, Design et Tech Art pour une intégration optimale.
• Garantir que les setups d'éclairage respectent les exigences artistiques et techniques, incluant les contraintes de performance.
• Optimiser l'éclairage pour différents niveaux de plateforme, du haut de gamme au mobile.
• Contribuer à la planification de production, la préparation des jalons et l'efficacité des workflows.
• Réviser et valider l'implémentation de l'éclairage afin d'assurer l'alignement avec la direction artistique et les standards techniques.
• Assurer une visibilité sur la qualité, les risques et les défis de production liés à l'éclairage.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in AAA game development with a focus on lighting contributing to at least one shipped AAA title.
• Proven experience leading and managing a team of lighting artists.
• Strong expertise in lighting for day/night cycles, atmosphere, and real-time visual storytelling.
• Solid understanding of real-time rendering pipelines and lighting systems.
• Experience working on large-scale environments or open-world productions.
• Strong collaboration experience across design, technical, and art teams.
• Positive leadership, communication, and feedback skills.
• Desired Characteristics
• Experience working with Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen or similar systems).
• Strong technical understanding of scalable systems and multi-platform constraints from high end to mobile.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 (Lumen, Megalight or similar systems).
• Positive experience working with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.
• Strong artistic sensitivity to mood, atmosp

Benefits

Additional Information

NBCUniversal is seeking a Lead Lighting Artist to own and drive the execution of lighting direction for an ambitious interactive project set in a contemporary real-life urban environment. This role is responsible for delivering high-quality lighting that supports mood, realism, readability, and storytelling across a wide range of environments and gameplay contexts. Reporting to the Associate Art Director - Lighting & VFX, the Lead Lighting Artist will work closely with Technical Art and cross-disciplinary teams to ensure lighting is consistently implemented across production. The role involves leading and managing a team of lighting artists while ensuring that lighting solutions meet both artistic vision and performance constraints across scalable pipelines from high-end to mobile.

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