Lighting Artist

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