Top Benefits
About the role
Liquid Development was founded in 2000 and is the largest outsourcing art studio in North America. We offer a fun and cooperative work atmosphere, where collaboration is encouraged among a diversely talented team to remain on the cutting edge of content creation. Everyday Liquid Development is producing work at the forefront of modern game production and the demands for our services continue to grow. Our team has contributed to AAA titles within the Halo, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Call of Duty franchises - Liquid Development is the team these titles turn to when they need the best.
Check Us Out On ArtStation:
https://www.artstation.com/liquiddevelopment
Interested in joining our team? As future projects await, we're on the lookout for exceptional talent to consider for upcoming roles. Take the initiative by submitting your application, and let's explore the possibilities together as our team grows.
We are currently seeking for lighting artists to join our team for a few upcoming projects! You are an experienced lighting artist who can take environments from start to finish while communicating effectively with other disciplines across all parts of the project. In return, you will be part of an experienced creative and supportive team working on various AAA titles!
Some of the cool stuff you'll be doing:
- Artistic Lighting: Crafting, placing, and tweaking light sources to achieve the desired mood, tone, and atmosphere across a variety of environmental archetypes.
- Technical Implementation: Setting up lighting rigs, managing light bakes, optimizing for performance, and handling volumetric lighting.
- Collaboration: Working with level designers and environmental artists to guide players and highlight key areas, ensuring visual consistency.
- Self-Management: The ability to identify your own project needs and effectively communicate those needs to your lead and managers.
- Post-Processing: Applying color grading, bloom, and other screen-space effects to enhance the final look.
- Performance Optimization: Ensuring high visual quality within the technical constraints of the target hardware.
Requirements
What you'll bring to the table:
- A strong portfolio/demo reel with recent work showcasing proficiency in lighting for video games (**must submit to be considered**)
- 2+ years of professional experience working as a Lighting Artist in the video game industry
Bonus Points!
- Proprietary Engine Experience: Knowledge of lighting pipelines outside of Unreal Engine and Unity. (example: Frostbite)
- Experience with Maya, Houdini and Unreal Engine
While this is a fully remoteposition,at this time, we are only consider applicants that reside inOntario, Canada.
Due to the high volume of applications,we kindly ask you to not reach out to the Liquid Development team. Once you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email that the hiring team will be reviewing your application. You will hear directly from our Talent Acquisition team once we have an update for you regarding your application status.
Benefits
What's in it for you?
If working on some of the biggest and best titles with some of the coolest people within the games industry isn't enough, we also offer:
-
Work alongside dynamic individuals in the gaming industry
-
Work within a company with upward career growth opportunities
-
Work Fully Remote
-
Full Time Employment Benefits for applicants located in US only include:
-
Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
-
Voluntary Long-term / Short-term Disability
-
401K w/ company match
-
Salary RANGE: 68k CAD to $81k CAD per year (32 CAD/hr to 39 CAD/hr)
Keywords Studios is dedicated to following a well-established Equal Opportunities Policy. We endeavor to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY
By providing your information in this application, you understand that we will collect and process your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. For more information, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice athttps://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice.
Role Information: EN
Studio: Liquid Development
Location: Americas, Canada
Area of Work: Art Services
Service: Create
Employment Type: Full Time, Contractor
Working Pattern: Remote
About Liquid Development
At Liquid Development, we know creating content for the next-generation of gaming machines can be a grueling process for publishers. The amount of assets required by these new state of the art games can break any budget! Assembling the team of artists is a tough job in itself, but occupying their time in between projects can be downright impossible. Not to mention, finding the resources to create a specific element of a game can often take longer than the task itself.
Enter Liquid Development. Using our resources allows the publisher to do what they do best: create great games, instead of managing a room-full of artists. Liquid Development has the experience to step in at any point in the process and produce art that is top-notch and true to the designer's vision. Our management can combine talents from multiple artists and create a cohesive array of content. Because of our art director experience at previous organizations, we know the frustrations that publishers often face when trying to implement the work of multiple teams of artists. We know that this experience comes as a refreshing change to most publishers.
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Top Benefits
About the role
Liquid Development was founded in 2000 and is the largest outsourcing art studio in North America. We offer a fun and cooperative work atmosphere, where collaboration is encouraged among a diversely talented team to remain on the cutting edge of content creation. Everyday Liquid Development is producing work at the forefront of modern game production and the demands for our services continue to grow. Our team has contributed to AAA titles within the Halo, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Call of Duty franchises - Liquid Development is the team these titles turn to when they need the best.
Check Us Out On ArtStation:
https://www.artstation.com/liquiddevelopment
Interested in joining our team? As future projects await, we're on the lookout for exceptional talent to consider for upcoming roles. Take the initiative by submitting your application, and let's explore the possibilities together as our team grows.
We are currently seeking for lighting artists to join our team for a few upcoming projects! You are an experienced lighting artist who can take environments from start to finish while communicating effectively with other disciplines across all parts of the project. In return, you will be part of an experienced creative and supportive team working on various AAA titles!
Some of the cool stuff you'll be doing:
- Artistic Lighting: Crafting, placing, and tweaking light sources to achieve the desired mood, tone, and atmosphere across a variety of environmental archetypes.
- Technical Implementation: Setting up lighting rigs, managing light bakes, optimizing for performance, and handling volumetric lighting.
- Collaboration: Working with level designers and environmental artists to guide players and highlight key areas, ensuring visual consistency.
- Self-Management: The ability to identify your own project needs and effectively communicate those needs to your lead and managers.
- Post-Processing: Applying color grading, bloom, and other screen-space effects to enhance the final look.
- Performance Optimization: Ensuring high visual quality within the technical constraints of the target hardware.
Requirements
What you'll bring to the table:
- A strong portfolio/demo reel with recent work showcasing proficiency in lighting for video games (**must submit to be considered**)
- 2+ years of professional experience working as a Lighting Artist in the video game industry
Bonus Points!
- Proprietary Engine Experience: Knowledge of lighting pipelines outside of Unreal Engine and Unity. (example: Frostbite)
- Experience with Maya, Houdini and Unreal Engine
While this is a fully remoteposition,at this time, we are only consider applicants that reside inOntario, Canada.
Due to the high volume of applications,we kindly ask you to not reach out to the Liquid Development team. Once you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email that the hiring team will be reviewing your application. You will hear directly from our Talent Acquisition team once we have an update for you regarding your application status.
Benefits
What's in it for you?
If working on some of the biggest and best titles with some of the coolest people within the games industry isn't enough, we also offer:
-
Work alongside dynamic individuals in the gaming industry
-
Work within a company with upward career growth opportunities
-
Work Fully Remote
-
Full Time Employment Benefits for applicants located in US only include:
-
Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
-
Voluntary Long-term / Short-term Disability
-
401K w/ company match
-
Salary RANGE: 68k CAD to $81k CAD per year (32 CAD/hr to 39 CAD/hr)
Keywords Studios is dedicated to following a well-established Equal Opportunities Policy. We endeavor to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY
By providing your information in this application, you understand that we will collect and process your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. For more information, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice athttps://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice.
Role Information: EN
Studio: Liquid Development
Location: Americas, Canada
Area of Work: Art Services
Service: Create
Employment Type: Full Time, Contractor
Working Pattern: Remote
About Liquid Development
At Liquid Development, we know creating content for the next-generation of gaming machines can be a grueling process for publishers. The amount of assets required by these new state of the art games can break any budget! Assembling the team of artists is a tough job in itself, but occupying their time in between projects can be downright impossible. Not to mention, finding the resources to create a specific element of a game can often take longer than the task itself.
Enter Liquid Development. Using our resources allows the publisher to do what they do best: create great games, instead of managing a room-full of artists. Liquid Development has the experience to step in at any point in the process and produce art that is top-notch and true to the designer's vision. Our management can combine talents from multiple artists and create a cohesive array of content. Because of our art director experience at previous organizations, we know the frustrations that publishers often face when trying to implement the work of multiple teams of artists. We know that this experience comes as a refreshing change to most publishers.