Studio: Industrial Light & Magic
Job Opening: Lighting Technical Director
Location: Sydney, Australia
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Render images for either digitally integrated VFX or full CG shots
- Manage all the upstream elements such as animation, simulation and FX caches and work with compositors to final shots
- Create or implement light rigs from either on set reference or concept art
- Actively develop solutions and techniques that meet art/technical direction
- Able to independently navigate and use previous setups for sequences, developing or matching key shots, managing multiple assets and lighting setups
- Work closely with Look Development Artists to evaluate assets in a shot context
- Management of volumetric light setups, including shadowing and cucoloris development
- Light and render assets using CG hair and scattering skin materials.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or computer graphics or equivalent 3-5+ years of production experience or feature film experience with lighting work.
- Linux Experience
- In-depth knowledge of software applications used specifically for lighting (preferably Katana and Renderman)
- Experience with Nuke.
Desirable Skills / Competencies:
- Technical knowledge of path tracing
- Scripting using Python or OpScript.
