Lighting Artist (Contract) at Retro Studios

Retro Studios, the Austin studio wholly owned by Nintendo and known for the Metroid Prime series, is hiring a Lighting Artist on contract. The artist lights game levels, balancing visual quality with the demands of gameplay.

Retro asks for an exceptional eye for colour, value and composition, experience lighting game levels, a solid understanding of PBR rendering and of real-world light values and exposure, experience with a current real-time lighting engine such as Unreal, Unity or Frostbite, and the ability to follow concept art and work across a range of styles with little direction.

The contract is on site in Austin. The listing says the post is paid weekly and includes health care, paid time off and holidays; the rate is not stated.