Studio: Industrial Light & Magic
Job Opening: Lead Lighting Technical Director
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Scrutinize the colours and directions of all light sources in the real-world scene and replicate them in CG.
- Design and create the lighting and the look of computer-generated objects and scenes.
- Responsible for the final CG scene assembly, lighting and rendering of very complex shots.
- Works closely with Lighting Supervisors and CG Supervisors to determine the best approach to solving CG challenges and developing the final look.
- Creates lighting setups and/or works within current setups
- Creates efficient rendering set-ups in order to optimize render farm usage.
- Stays on schedule and meets set deadlines while maintaining the highest level of work quality.
- Ensures there is ongoing communication with the Production and Lighting team regarding schedules and deadlines.
- Helps mentor Junior Artists within the Lighting/Look Development team.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience in Computer Graphics or equivalent.
- Experience of real-world lighting and photography.
- Demonstrable advanced Lighting and Rendering experience within a VFX environment.
- Previous experience performing Look Development tasks.
- Exhibits excellent listening and communication skills, able to receive direction and criticism.
- Demonstrates an excellent aesthetic eye, anticipates potential problems and uses knowledge of how to use the tools to achieve the desired look.
- Demonstrates the ability to help and teach more junior-level artists.
- Demonstrates the ability to prioritise tasks, manages time very well, provides everyone with accurate time estimates on shot task completion.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation/communication skills in dailies/shot review by clearly and briefly outlining what has been accomplished and what should be addressed next in a shot.
- Demonstrates the ability to work within a team environment with minimal supervision to complete a shot.
- Can write plug-ins, set-up sequences, debug simulations and write set up and Renderman surface shaders with proficiency.
- Solid compositing ability, can wrangle blue-screen extractions, working knowledge of Nuke.
- Demonstrates the ability to work with minimal supervision to complete a shot.
- A thorough understanding of the VFX pipeline from modelling through animation, texturing, rendering and compositing.
- Ability to pick up new techniques and the ability to learn new software quickly and easily.
- Excellent knowledge of Renderman and/or other unbiased rendering systems is essential.
- Knowledge of Katana is an advantage, Maya and/or Zeno beneficial.
- Strong knowledge of lighting techniques and a good understanding of colour-space.
- Basic knowledge of physically plausible shading techniques, experience building shading networks is an advantage.
- Good knowledge of other disciplines within VFX including simulation, modelling and UV mapping, texturing and camera tracking.
- Understanding python and/or MEL scripting is important, knowledge of LUA is an advantage.
- A good understanding of nuke or similar compositing package, including how to use layers and passes to tweak a shot after it has been rendered.
- A strong understanding of Linux based operating systems.
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