About the Role

As a (senior) lighting artist, you will demonstrate excellent creative, technical and visual skill, with the ability to produce high quality content in a professional environment. lighting, following the direction of lead artist, art director, and technical director.

What you will do

• Collaborate with the level team to develop the look and feel of a game.
• Find visual references based on the artistic and technical directions.
• Set up light sources to support narrative elements and gameplay progression.
• Light game environments, characters, and cinematics to direct the players’ attention, set the emotional tone, communicate atmosphere, and plot details, etc.
• Balance artistic aspects with technical constraints.
• Document and share your lighting design knowledge and best practices.
• Refine your integrated lighting effects based on feedback received from interdependent teams, debugging when need be.

What you will bring

Must have:

• Familiar with 3D authoring packages and color calibration process.
• RT and prerender lighting experience.
• Prefer Fine Arts, Design, Architecture, or related field.
• Experienced as a lighting Artist in the game, film, or CG industry.
• Creative with the ability to adapt to realistic game style.
• Task driven with good time management skills, ability to work independently as well as a good team player.
• Balancing the visual quality and performance requirements of real-time gaming applications

Nice to have:

• Portfolio of traditional art skills.
• Shipped games (Console or PC)
• Experienced in managing team and allocating tasks.
• Good English skills both in written and oral

Benefits and Perks from Ubisoft Shanghai:

• Future of Work framework: flexible hours and up to 8 days of working remotely per calendar month
• A minimum of 15 days paid annual leave
• Monthly meal and snack allowance
• Premium medical insurance plan and free annual health check
• Game Package: free access to Ubisoft games on PC plus a rich and expanding library of games & books
• Employee Assistance Program: wellbeing solutions, emotional support, and life coaching
• 10+ staff clubs featuring weekly sports and gaming activities and events