Pasquale Scionti

Principal Lighting Artist | BAFTA Games Connect

Toronto , Ontario, Canada

Summary

I am a Principal Lighting Artist with over 20 years of experience in creating stunning and realistic lighting and look development for architecture and video games,
with strong focus on visual storytelling, mood creation and cinematic composition in real-time environments and expertise in Unreal Engine 4 and 5.
I lead the artistic direction of lighting by establishing style guides, color palettes, mood, reviewing and polishing environments to achieve a cinematic standard while preserving gameplay readability and player guidance that maintain visual consistency across all levels.

Optimization for lighting performance by managing light complexity, avoiding unnecessary overlaps in light radius, controlling shadow casting and maintaining efficient use of dynamic and baked lighting, making sure each light has a clear purpose and contributes meaningfully to the scene without creating performance bottlenecks.

Mentoring and guiding lighting artists by providing feedback, setting quality benchmarks and pushing artistic growth within the team, ensuring lighting not only looks beautiful but communicates a story.

My work blends artistic sensitivity with deep real-time lighting knowledge, leveraging modern rendering technologies such as Lumen, volumetric fog, dynamic exposure and advanced post-processing to create rich atmospheric worlds that feel alive and emotionally impactful.

SKILLS

• Advanced Unreal Engine 5 & 4 lighting usage (Lumen, fog, exposure, post)
• Raytrace Realtime and Baked lighting solutions
• Cinematics and Video Editing
• Physical Based Lighting Techniques
• Lighting Blueprints
• Lighting Pipelines and Workflow
• Advanced skills in lighting composition and set dressing
• Ability to create 3D photorealistic renderings and animation of both exterior and interior environments
• Architectural and interior design background
• Knowledge in Photography, 3D Animation and Color Theory
• Creation of Environments and Landscapes for Archviz or Gaming Industry

SOME OF MY SOFTWARE SKILLS :
3dsmax - Fstorm - Corona Renderer - V-Ray - ZBrush - Forest Pack - Unreal Engine 4 and 5
Substance Painter - Photoshop - Lumion - Premiere
WorldCreator - Speedtree - Gaea

SOME OF MY HOBBIES :
Drums - Music - Art - Photography - Cinema - Videogames

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Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Cinema 4D

Photoshop

Substance 3D Painter

Unreal Engine

Quixel Suite

V-Ray

Corona Renderer

Adobe Lightroom

Lumion

World Creator

Forest Pack

Gaea

Twinmotion

Reel

Productions

- Video Game
  Hellblade 2
- Year
  2024
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Ninja Theory
- Video Game
  No More Room In Hell 2
- Year
  2024
- Role
  Principal Lighting / Lookdev Artist
- Company
  Torn Banner Studios
- Video Game
  Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Principal Lighting / Lookdev Artist
- Company
  Torn Banner Studios
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Vanguard Zombies
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Treyarch
- Commercial / Advertisement
  Archviz Sample RTX Project
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Responsible for the Design process and also Modeling / Texturing / Lighting
- Company
  Epic Games

Experience

Principal Lighting Artist at Ghost Story Games
Toronto, CA
August 2025 - February 2026
I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new position as Principal Lighting Artist at

GhostStoryGames for Judas, a single player narrative FPS with unique style.

Happy to join the team !
Principal Cinematic Lighting Artist at Gunzilla Games
Toronto, CA
February 2025 - August 2025
I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new position as

Principal Cinematic Lighting Artist at Gunzilla Games for (Off The Grid) AAA Next-Gen Cyberpunk Extraction Battle Royale shooter. Envisioned by film Director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium, Chappie).

#OffTheGrid #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #Lighting #cinematic #videogames #gunzillagames #avalanche #Web3 #NewJob #ps5 #xbox

Unreal Engine 80 Level
Principal Lighting/Lookdev Artist at Tornbanner Studios
Toronto
July 2022 - December 2024
I am so excited to share that i am starting a new position joining

@TornBanner as

Principal Lighting/Lookdev Artist

Stay tuned!

#newjob #work #thankyou #videogames #tornbanner #Xbox #steam #mediaval #chivalry #chivalry2 #PS5 #XboxSeriesX

@Xbox @Steam @PlayStation
Senior Lighting/Lookdev Artist at Ninja Theory Xbox Game Studio
Hamilton, Canada
November 2021 - June 2022
I'm very excited to announce that i am joining

@NinjaTheory

as Senior Lighting / Lookdev Artist

Thank you to

@Treyarch @Activision

for the opportunity to be part of COD Vanguard

#newjob #videogames #projectmara #hellblade #ue5 #unrealengine5

@XboxStudio @_XboxNews @UnrealEngine
Senior Lighting Artist at Treyarch Activision Blizzard
Hamilton, Canada
June 2021 - November 2021
I am so excited to announce that i am starting a new professional challenge joining

Treyarch - Activision Blizzard Studios on

Call of Duty as Senior Lighting Artist.

Thank you to The Initiative Microsoft Xbox Studio for the opportunity to work on Perfect Dark

#newjob #work #thankyou #videogames #treyarch #activision #callofduty #videogame #videogameindustry #newposition #excited
Senior Environment/Lightning Artist at The Initiative Microsoft Xbox Studio
Hamilton, Canada
August 2020 - June 2021
I am so excited and proud to be part of this amazing team #theinitiative and to work on this great project Perfect Dark.

@xbox_studio @xboxfansofficial @xboxcanada @xbox @xboxp3 @thegameawards #perfectdark #xbox #XboxSeriesX #XboxSeriesS #videogames #videogame #console #cheers #celebration #GameAwards2020 #TheGameAwards
CGI MANAGER at Ashley Furniture Industries
Tampa, United States of America
November 2018 - March 2020
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior furniture

• Teaching and supervising

• Technology Consultant
3D ARCHVIZ at FREELANCE FOR EPIC GAMES ENTERPRISE
Tampa, United States of America
June 2019 - December 2019
Raytrace archviz sample project available to download from learning tab of Epics Game Launcher

• 3D Realistic archviz interior scene demostrating the power and realism of raytrace technology

• Design - Modeling - Texturing - Unwrapping - Lightning - Post
CGI 3D DIRECTOR at Ashley Furniture Industries
Tampa Florida, United States of America
December 2017 - November 2018
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior furniture

• Teaching and supervising

• Technology Consultant
3D ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZER at A++ Sustainable Architecture
Lugano, Switzerland
February 2017 - August 2017
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior

• Exterior video animation with Lumion
FREELANCE 3D ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZER at Sciontidesign
Milan, Italy
December 2015 - June 2017
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior furniture

• Exterior and interior animation and postproduction
FREELANCE 3D ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZER at Corrado Dotti Design
Milan, Italy
November 2014 - November 2015
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior furniture

• Postproduction
FREELANCE 3D ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZER at MHP MEDIA
Modena, Italy
June 2014 - September 2014
• 3D Realistic renders for interior and exterior furniture

• Postproduction
CUSTOMER SERVICE TECHNICAL SUPPORT at Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard - Milan Italy, Italy
June 2006 - April 2014
• Solving issues online using remote access

• Support on notebooks, desktops, printers, tablets

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