Senior Lighting Artist

**SENIOR LIGHTING ARTIST (BLOOBER TEAM)**
🕹 Horror Games
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote / 👔 Office Krakow, Poland 🇵🇱
**🦄 Description**
Bloober Team is looking for a Lighting Artist to join the studio and help shape the visual identity of upcoming horror-focused game projects.
The role focuses on creating dramatic, photorealistic lighting that strengthens environmental storytelling, scene depth, composition, and atmosphere while maintaining a balance between visual quality and real-time performance.
**🚀 Responsibilities**
• Work closely with the Creative Director and other artists to define and maintain the game’s visual style
• Create dramatic and compelling lighting for game environments
• Support photorealistic rendering through lighting
• Enhance environmental storytelling through light and atmosphere
• Establish depth and visual layering in scenes
• Use Unreal Engine lighting tools to achieve high visual quality
• Work within artistic and technical production constraints
• Optimize lighting for performance
• Balance visual fidelity with real-time rendering requirements
• Collaborate closely with the wider art team
**📚 Required Skills**
• 5+ years of experience in a similar role in game development or film and VFX production
• Strong understanding of AAA production processes and constraints
• Good knowledge of at least one game development engine
• Experience with Unreal Engine is preferred
• Excellent understanding of the game production pipeline
• Excellent knowledge of composition and framing
• Excellent understanding of colour and lighting
• High level of creativity
• Strong communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills
**👍 Nice to Have**
• Artistic background
• Cinematic lighting approach
• Post-processing skills
• Passion for horror games
• Interest in horror films and books
**🍪 What we offer**
• Remote and office working options
• Opportunity to work on horror-focused game projects
• Collaborative and inclusive studio culture
• Financially stable company environment
• Opportunity to influence visual style and lighting quality
• Collaboration with the Creative Director and experienced artists
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