HOLOGATE is the market-leading immersive media company offering innovative extended reality solutions for entertainment and enterprise applications. Operating the largest VR network in the world, with 400+ turnkey VR systems in locations across 38 countries and reaching more than 10 million players, the HOLOGATE brand lineup continues to set the standard for family entertainment centers worldwide.
We are a fast-growing international technology company. Our staff has doubled from 20 to over 40 employees in the last two years alone, and numerous colleagues are working remotely worldwide.
As an Unreal Lighting Artist, you represent HOLOGATE and our core values. You are searching for new challenges and career advancement within Development – in this case, you are a perfect fit for the Hologate family. We aim to provide you with an experience that is challenging, enjoyable, and rewarding – and not just in the virtual sense!
We offer:
- Intensive onboarding and individual training
- A high degree of creative freedom and decision-making
- A young team with high growth potential
- Flexitime with core hours, work-life balance
- modern and open working environment with lounges, kicker-table, arcade machines, and team events
- Water, coffee, tea, and fresh fruit free of charge
Your Role
- Create interior and exterior lighting within environments
- Place and adjust light sources
- Tweak shading materials and textures to improve lighting
- Optimize lighting for performance
- Work with the Lead Artist and Art Director to achieve the best look possible
- Engage in look-development around key surfaces and shaders to ensure lighting delivers against visual reference
- Collaborate and communicate with a team of internal and external developers
Your Skills
- Knowledge and use of lighting techniques for video games
- Experience with generating light-maps, pre-lighting, or baked lighting
- Strong sense of lighting theory including color space, exposure, light fixtures, natural light, reflections
- Skilled at balancing visual quality against performance requirements
- Strong understanding of Unreal engine
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Good understanding of CG lighting technology, both real-time and software rendering
- Proactive in the use of lighting as a powerful tool in gameplay clarity
- HDR Tone mapping experience a plus
We are looking for all levels. Even if you do not have all skills but are interested in working for Hologate please do not hesitate to drop us a line.
Please apply with a portfolio/weblink showing your best and most recent works.
