Lighting Artist
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Type: Permanent
Activities:
Lighter,
Lighting TD
Place:
Description
You have talent and a passion for VFX? Join our Montreal team to grow your career and live a new and exciting experience!
Your mission
Creating a photo-realistic lighting, the assembly of 3d scenes and rendering required by compositing elements in creating plans for visual effects films.
Your responsibilities
- Produce high-quality lighting and rendering, in close collaboration with 3d texture artists, 2d graphic designers (compositing) and render wranglers;
- Provide creative input in the lighting process;
- Effective use of 3D production software such as Maya and Arnold;
- Analyze and determine the most appropriate technical and artistic means to produce a quality image, which corresponds to customer standards;
- Determine the general appearance of the shots in collaboration with the supervisor of visual effects;
- Receive constructive criticism and, if necessary, adapt the graphics to match the required standards.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, 3D animation techniques and computer graphics, visual effects or equivalent;
- Minimum of five (5) years experience as an artist in visual effects, ideally specializing in 3D lighting;
- Knowledge of the structure of a VFX production pipeline;
- Excellent knowledge of Maya software and rendering engine Arnold;
- Knowledge of Mental Ray, VRay, Katana, Renderman, etc. ;
- Knowledge of HDRI image management and its use in 3D scene;
- Knowledge of a compositing software as Nuke, Fusion, After Effects, etc.
Our offer
- Great opportunity for challenge driven artists to express themselves in a highly creative environment;
- Passionate team, dynamic and creative;
- Participation in various major projects;
- Location near public transportation;
- Flexible hours.
Please submit your application and demo to rh@mels-studios.com