Studio: FutureWorks
Job Opening: VFX Lighting Artist
Location: Mumbai, Mahārāshtra, India
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- The lighting artist is responsible for illuminating all VFX assets, characters, and/or environments for live action visual effects and or animated projects.
- Works independently and with the production team at an advanced level to execute the desired photorealistic look of complicated CG models, including complex creatures and/or hard surface models, including terrains, real-world vehicles, and environments.
- Tasks can range between the more technical matching of light from filmed backgrounds through to the more creative mood-enhancing styles of animated content.
- They use light to enhance the depth, tone, atmosphere, and mood of a given scene.
- A lighting artist works according to the vision of the director and creates different styles of lighting to convey extraordinary effects.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proficiency in Kanata skills is a mandatory requirement for this role.
- A minimum of 6+ years of live-action lighting experience is required.
- Clear understanding of color space, image-based lighting, shading, and advanced rendering methodologies.
- A good knowledge of Nuke or a similar compositing package.
- Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining high-quality results.
- Flexible and adaptable with the ability to work within a pre-set workflow or pipeline but also have the creativity and problem-solving skills to work around issues.
- Extensive knowledge of either Renderman, Arnold, or similar production renderer
- Basic knowledge of physically plausible shading techniques
- A strong understanding of V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Renderman, Zbrush, Katana, Unreal Engine
- Excellent organisation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Creative problem solving and attention to detail
- Familiarity with film production & computer graphics.
- Good working knowledge of art, design, and film lighting, as well as a solid technical grounding in renderers.
- Ability to learn quickly and assimilate new information.
