Lighting Technical Director required at Industrial Light & Magic

Lighting Technical Director required at Industrial Light & Magic

Studio: Industrial Light & Magic

Job Opening: Lighting Technical Director (all levels)

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 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.

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