Studio: Disney Studios
Job Opening: Technical Lighter
Location: London, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with lighting leads/supervisors to profile and optimise inefficient renders on all local projects, including memory usage and render time across both Katana and RIS.
- Where optimisation requires the involvement of other departments, communicate this to the Lead/Supervisor.
- Assist in debugging technical issues with lighting setups.
- Help triage flagged issues, make repros, submit and monitor JIRA tickets, and escalate to Pipe/Engineering when necessary.
- Monitor the render farm to identify problematic high-resource renders and provide feedback and suggestions to the artist and lead/supervisor.
- Report back to the Local HoD of lighting on any performance-related trends.
- Work with the local DRM/TAs to proactively investigate and resolve problematic renders.
- Work with the lighting team.
- Asset and environment render setup sanitisation and optimisation.
- Sequence setup optimisations.
- Provide documentation and training on profiling, optimising, and debugging processes for lighting.
- Identify and potentially prototype tools that have the potential to improve the efficiency or reliability of lighting department renders.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Good experience with Katana & RIS.
- Familiarity with Python/OpScript.
- Experience with lighting.
- Understanding the importance of proactive problem-solving.
- Good organisation and communication skills.
- Experience with debugging, profiling/optimisation.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of path tracing renderers.
- Basic knowledge of Houdini would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of USD is a bonus.
