Senior Lighting technical directors are responsible for creating high-quality CG lighting setups and rendering of complex visual effects scenes. Further on you will be responsible to provide look development of CG assets for the high-end photo-realistic VFX films by collaborating with the modelling, texture and FX departments. 

Responsibilities:

• Creating lighting setup for shots and asset development

• Look development of assets as briefed by the Visual Effects/CG Supervisor or Lead

• Working closely with CG Supervisors to determine the best approach to solving CG challenges and developing the final look

• Developing shots in collaboration with the shot Compositor

• Rendering non-lighting passes as required by the shot Compositor

• Ensuring that scenes and assets are build in an efficient way to keep render footprint low

• Scrutinising the colours and materials of the real-world reference and replicating them in CG

• Staying on schedule and meeting set deadlines while maintaining the highest levels of quality

• Ongoing communication with Production and leads regarding schedules and deadlines

• Other duties as required including wrangling assets or elements of a asset/shot from another department to ensure shots are completed to schedule

Essential Skills:

• Previous experience in lighting and look development

• A good understanding of colour science and grading

• A strong knowledge of lighting techniques and shading 

• A good knowledge of Nuke or similar compositing package

• Excellent organisation, communication and interpersonal skills

• Creative problem solving and attention to detail

• Able to work well under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining high quality results

• Able to work successfully as part of a team as well as independently

• Reliable, with good time keeping and the ability to meet deadlines

• Flexible and adaptable with the ability to work within a pre-set workflow or pipeline but also have the creativity and problem solving skills to work around issues

• A thorough knowledge of Maya

• Extensive knowledge of either Renderman, Arnold or similar production renderer

• Extensive knowledge of physically plausible shading techniques

• Basic knowledge of Python and/or Mel scripting

• A strong understanding of Linux/Unix based operating systems

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with digital paint software such as Photoshop and/or Mari

• Experience working with effects elements and volume rendering

• Experience with real-world lighting and photography