Senior Lighting Artist

Key Responsibilities include:

• Create and design lighting for complex scenes.
• Look development of assets, environments, and FX elements.
• Work with supervisors, leads, and compositing team to ensure all elements reach the desired look and delivery.
• Ability to self-troubleshoot renders.
• Pre-composite shots in Nuke.
• Sustain great team dynamics.
• Maintain shot quotas set by production and leads.
• Key-Lighting and templated shots for propagations and sequences (Senior)
• Ability to identify problematic shots that may affect delivery schedules and communicate concerns to leads and supervisors.
• Ensure shot continuity.

Profil

• 5+ years of Lighting experience in visual effects
• Strong Knowledge of Maya, Arnold, and Nuke
• Strong understanding of rendering methods (Render Setup) & shading models
• Previous experience performing Look Development tasks
• Experience of photo-real lighting
• Good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a strong team environment
• Experience with Shotgun an asset
• Be comfortable with a Windows/Linux OS environment
• Experience with Houdini (Solaris) a plus
• Unreal Engine experience a plus

Additional Requirements:

• Must live in Montreal and already be eligible to work in Canada. It is not possible to provide work visa or relocation assistance for this position.
• For production purposes, fluency in English is required.

About Pixomondo:

• PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, creates industry-leading Visualization, Virtual Production and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. Through its 23-year history, the Oscar, BAFTA & Emmy winning creative and technology company has been a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide. The company has consistently created iconic works, from Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning Hugo and multiple seasons of HBO’s Emmy winning Game of Thrones to the recent House of the Dragon, Amazon’s The Boys, and Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4.
• In Virtual Production, PXO collaborates with filmmakers from first drawing to final pixel. Using interactive technology and proprietary software and tools, PXO brings ideas to life by virtually immersing filmmakers in the worlds they imagine, throughout every stage of the creative process.
• The company’s LED virtual production work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Reacher and Amazon’s critically acclaimed Cada Minuto Cuenta. PXO has seven creative studios and three LED volumes in the US, UK, Germany, Canada.

Avantages

Benefits may vary by location due to regional regulations and company policies.

Pixomondo is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

PXO does not accept resumes from recruiters. Unsolicited resumes are accepted directly from candidates only. PXO will not pay any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.