Lighting Artist
UK Remote or West Midlands-based / Full-Time Contractor
Please note: We welcome applicants who prefer to work from home; however, we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity at this time.
Role:
We are looking for a skilled and motivated individual to help develop, own, and deliver visually striking and immersive game lighting setups that elevate mood, support gameplay, and enhance the overall player experience – both for Flix’s own internal projects and our high-profile co-development partners. As a key member of our Art team, you will use your technical knowledge and artistic vision to shape atmosphere, define visual tone, and bring our game worlds to life. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills, a solid work ethic, and a positive, proactive attitude.
Responsibilities:
- Block out, implement, and optimise complex and dynamic lighting, including gameplay‑driven, ambient, and cinematic lighting setups, ensuring seamless integration from prototype to final implementation.
- Collaborate with Art, Design, and Creative teams to interpret and uphold the quality bar of the game’s lighting, ensuring a consistent and cohesive visual identity.
- Actively participate in content reviews, giving creative input and incorporating feedback to improve the quality of game content.
- Follow best pipeline practices for content creation, optimisation, and performance, ensuring lighting work meets visual quality standards and runs smoothly across target platforms.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate across discipline teams to help uphold the game’s quality bar and delivery requirements.
- Work closely with your Leads and the Production team to help prioritise tasks and feedback, raise issues, and deliver high‑quality work on time.
Essential:
- Proven lighting experience within games, with a portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of the lighting pipeline and quality expectations, showcasing a variety of modern, high‑quality real‑time PBR lighting work within an established style.
- Strong understanding of game lighting creation for Unreal Engine, including tech such as Lumen, VSMs, atmospherics/volumetrics, Lightmass, mesh distance fields, post‑process effects, exposure control, and colour grading.
- Experience with profiling and optimising lighting setups for a variety of platforms using tools such as RenderDoc or Unreal Insights.
- Experience creating LUTs or colour‑grading profiles.
- Familiarity with GPU Lightmass or baked GI workflows.
- Demonstrated core lighting skills and command of fundamentals such as composition, value control, colour theory, mood, readability, and guiding player attention.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work positively in a team environment.
- Ability to manage your time effectively and own end-to-end delivery of your work.
- A passion for gaming and a drive to deliver visually stunning and captivating gaming experiences.
Desirable:
- Understanding of Blueprint and other approaches to create bespoke Unreal lighting solutions and systems.
- Understanding of cinematography and photography fundamentals such as exposure, composition, colour theory, contrast, lens behaviour, and how light interacts with subjects to create mood and visual focus.
- Skills in any adjacent areas such as Cinematics, Concept Art, Environment Art, etc.
- Previous shipped title(s) within a relevant game art production pipeline.
What We Offer:
Based just outside Birmingham, Flix is made up of welcoming, passionate, active gamers that support one another in all aspects of development. We offer you to:
- Join a friendly, nurturing work environment with the opportunity to build games as part of an extremely talented, ambitious studio.
- Work on market-leading AAA titles and IP with globally reputable studio and publisher partners.
- Be part of a sustainably growing game developer studio as we consciously expand our team and projects on a case-by-case basis.
- Learn within an independent studio across a wide range of projects and opportunities both internal and external.
Application:
Please send through your portfolio and cover letter. If your examples are from previous works with another studio, please make sure samples are cleared for release by copyright owners. Links to an online portfolio are preferable, otherwise we accept showreels via Dropbox or other secure sharing platforms.
Send your application to – careers@flixinteractive.com
If you love making games and you would like to contribute to a team and project where your drive and skills will be welcomed and encouraged, then we would love to hear from you.
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