Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Senior Unreal Environment & Lighting Artist to craft breathtaking, immersive worlds and elevate our visual storytelling. In this role, you will bridge the gap between high-level aesthetic direction and technical execution within Unreal Engine 5. You will own full workplace pipelines—from blockout to final polish—while mastering light, mood, composition, and engine performance.

Key Responsibilities

Environment & World Building
Set Dressing & Composition: Transform greybox levels into believable, narrative-rich environments using modular kits, custom assets, and procedural tools.
Atmosphere & Visual Storytelling: Establish tone, depth, and spatial flow through strategic placement of architectural elements, foliage, clutter, and visual cues.
Material & LookDev: Work with tech artists to refine shaders, vertex painting, blend materials, and decal placement for maximum realism or stylized fidelity.
Lighting & Atmosphere
Master Lighting Setup: Design and implement dynamic and baked lighting setups using Lumen, Ray Tracing,



and traditional lightmaps.
Volumetrics & FX: Author atmospheric fog, god rays, particle integration, and post-processing stacks (color grading, exposure, LUTs) to define the visual mood.
Cinematics & Gameplay: Collaborate with lighting and narrative teams to ensure lighting seamlessly guides player focus and supports both interactive gameplay and cutscenes.
Technical Execution & Optimization
Performance Budgeting: Optimize assets, materials, and lighting setups to hit target frame rates across target platforms without sacrificing visual fidelity (utilizing Nanite, virtual texturing, profiling tools, etc.).
Pipeline & Tools: Collaborate with Tech Art and Tools teams to streamline production workflows, establishing best practices for asset integration and scene hierarchy.
Leadership & Collaboration
Art Direction Alignment: Partner closely with the Art Director and Concept Artists to translate 2

📌 Senior Unreal Environment (India)
🏢 Harikatha Studio
📍 India