VFX Lighting Lead & lookdev

VFX Lighting Lead:-

As the Lighting Lead, you will be leading and managing the lighting team, and you will spend your days:

working with the lighting team & pipeline developers to ensure the look and vision of each project effectively and efficiently

assembling temp comps of the lighting passes

completing daily one-on-one rounds with the lighting team

Primary Responsibilities:

• Quality and artistic supervision of lighting with input from VFX Supervisor

• Implements generic lighting and compositing to help facilitate the creative ''look'' of the project

• Deliver final shots to production and ensure final technical check is complete.

• Tracking lighting continuity within sequences.

• Participates as a Supervising team member in determining various design solutions; efficiency improvements and provides artistic feedback on a shot and sequence level to other team members of the production.

• Coaches and guides the team of Lighting TD's to execute quality performance for the project.

• Attend all relevant meetings to promote effective communication throughout the production team.

Required Skills / Technical Competencies:

• Extensive management experience of large teams

• Ability to plan and execute complex lighting scenes including working with layers and passes and optimizing scenes and renders

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written, verbal and interpersonal)

• Highly proficient skills in technical problem solving

• Plans well and manages priorities

• Relevant knowledge of color theory, composition, lighting, aesthetics and how these apply to lighting and rendering

• Strong working knowledge of various software platforms including , Maya, Arnold, Nuke, or any other high end CG/VFX software.

Preferred Skills / Competencies:

• Some photography experience a plus (knowledge of composition, photography terms like depth of field, FOV, aperture, exposure, dynamic range)

•Good knowledge of Maya, Arnold, Redshift, Nuke and Unreal

5+ years' experience as a Lighting Lead or role with equivalent level of responsibility in VFX film and animated projects

Interested candidate kindly share their profiles on shraddha.d@philmcgi.com