Lead Environment & Lighting Artist

WATT Studio seeks a Lead Environment & Lighting Artist to lead the visual design of the game 'Tsarevna'.

WATT Studio is looking for an experienced Lead Environment & Lighting Artist to spearhead the visual design of the game 'Tsarevna'.

We seek an expert capable of not only creating aesthetic locations but also forming a global strategy for lighting and environment.

## What you'll do

• •Organize the creation of locations and lighting setup.
• •Configure expressive, atmospheric lighting considering artistic and narrative tasks.
• •Formulate lighting compositions and visual accents.
• •Work with Lumen and baked lighting based on project technical solutions.
• •Create and refine high-quality 3D environments.
• •Design scenes considering composition, light, color, and materials for a cohesive visual style.
• •Work with set dressing, navigation, and narrative elements of the environment.
• •Optimize lighting, assets, and scenes for real-time performance (PBR, LOD, Nanite/Lumen).
• •Support level artists with lighting and environment issues.
• •Develop and maintain lighting and environment guidelines.
• •Participate in reviews and team communication on visual and technical requirements.
• •Engage in level art tasks if necessary.
• •Daily reporting and adherence to internal deadlines.
• •Work in Unreal Engine.

## Conditions

• •Experience with procedural tools is a plus.
• •Participation in developing visual guidelines and pipelines is a plus.
• •Experience with post-processing and color correction is a plus.

• •Experience as a Lighting Artist and/or Environment Artist in gaming or related projects.
• •Portfolio with examples of lighting and environment work (mandatory).
• •Proficient in Unreal Engine (lighting, Lumen, Lightmass, environment work).
• •Understanding of composition, color, contrast, and visual storytelling.
• •Practical experience in creating and assembling environments (modular assets, materials, set dressing).
• •Experience optimizing scenes (lighting and geometry) for real-time.
• •Understanding of technical limitations of game engines.
• •Ability to work in a team and communicate with artists and technical specialists.
• •Responsibility, independence, and adherence to deadlines.