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.