Studio: Lightbox Animation Studios
Job Opening: Junior Lighting & Compositing Artist
Location: Remote
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Create lighting for 3D characters, sets&props, adding authenticity and ensuring the look correctly.
- Lighting scenes using the provided layouts and briefings, preparing and optimizing scenes for rendering.
- Use different light effects depending on the factors in a frame or scene, creating stunning visuals with an ideal atmosphere, tone, depth and mood, matching with external elements.
- Light up the assigned shots, according to the artistic and technical instructions of the Supervisor and Team Lead.
- Responsible for continuity, making sure art from different sources and different artists looks the same.
- Work closely with the FX and Matte Painting departments to help create the final finished product.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently in a fully remote environment, with that comes the supreme individual responsibility to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and maintain your own initiative.
- Great team player, creating a collaborative and welcoming environment.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workload and within budgets, adhere to the production schedule and deliver completed assignments on time.
- Align with the style, sensibility of the project, and the Director’s vision.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 1-3 years of professional experience in either animation TV series or feature animation movies.
- Expert knowledge of Maya and Nuke.
- Strong creative eye for lighting effects, shading properties, and color theory to achieve the desired realism and emotional impact.
- Strong sense of composition, perspective, scale, and design theory.
- Enthusiastic about the latest techniques, software, and visual trends, especially within the animation industry.
- Understanding of techniques and technologies related to CG rendering.
- Familiarity with working within a CG pipeline.
- Ability to take feedback constructively and implement it effectively, to reach the quality desired.
- Anticipation and quick reaction for problem-solving.
- Demonstrate great autonomy and proactivity in your work.
- Great attention to detail.
- Outstanding interpersonal and collaborative skills.
