Lighting TD - Mid/Senior
Core
Lighting and rendering of elements for high-end photo-realistic VFX shots in film, collaborating with supervisors and compositors to achieve the final look.
Role type
Mid/Senior Lighting Technical Director (VFX)
Builds
Production-ready VFX shots for high-end photo-realistic films
Domain
Film & Episodic Visual Effects
Required skills
Houdini, Maya, Renderman/Arnold, color-space management, lighting techniques, shot look development, Linux/Unix, Python/Mel scripting, asset wrangling, render farm optimization
Preferred skills
Photoshop, Mari, volume rendering, physically plausible shading, Nuke compositing, modeling, texturing, camera tracking
Responsibilities
Assemble CG scenes with assets from other departments, light shots per supervisor brief, develop lighting setups and optimize render farms, replicate real-world lighting in CG, render non-lighting passes, support junior team members, manage deadlines and quality, communicate with production leads
Seniority
Mid/Senior, hands-on IC