Lighting Supervisor

Description

The Lighting TD Supervisor is responsible for leading a team of Lighting TD’s and Leads to create direct and reflecting lighting and shadows that meet creative direction and has shared accountability for the management and deliverables of the Lighting department. Research, develop, and implement techniques when necessary.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Quality and artistic supervision of lighting with input from VFX Supervisor  
• Designs, implements and critiques generic lighting and compositing to help facilitate the creative "look" of the project
• Determines the need and extent of mattes, paintings, effects and shaders for digitally composited shots.
• Regularly interacting with the Producer, and Director to understand desired look as it relates to lighting for the production.
• 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.
• Partners with Artist Management to guide artists’ overall professional development, providing performance feedback, mentoring, assist with resolving performance issues and maintaining positive morale amongst the crew.
• Attend all relevant meetings to promote effective communication throughout the production team.
• Actively participates in the recruiting and staffing of the lighting team - assesses the work of prospective candidates for the hiring process and works with Artist Management on hiring decisions.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Graphics or equivalent work experience.
• Relevant understanding of color theory, composition, lighting, aesthetics and how these apply to lighting and rendering in 3D
• 6+ year’s production experience with experience in a leadership role on a VFX film or CG animated project
• Strong working knowledge of various software platforms including Katana, Maya, Shake, Nuke, or any other high end CG or compositing software.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux, Python and shell scripting required.
• Look development and/or shader writing preferred
• Ability to plan and execute complex 3D lighting scenes including working with layers and passes, doing complex comps and optimizing scenes and renders
• Some photography experience a plus (understanding of composition, photography terms like depth of field, FOV, aperture, exposure, dynamic range)
• Highly proficient skills in technical problem solving.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal and interpersonal)