Lighter/Compositor- DreamWorks TV

Department:   TV Production HUB or Lighting

Reports To:    Production Supervisor, TV or Line Producer, TV

Summary:

Working closely with the Lighting & Compositing Supervisor and CG Supervisor, CG-TV, to develop lighting looks and light rigs for CG series and for lighting and compositing final scenes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and create lighting and the look of environments and characters for digitally composited sequences to reach the vision of the Animation Director, TV and Supervising Producer, CG-TV while meeting the production schedule.
• Set up, light, rig and comp Character and Environment Assets.
• Manage personal asset lighting load, meeting all deadlines of milestones to material delivery, based on the established schedule and technical requirements.
• Initiate, set up, organize and document any lighting tools.
• Perform technical work in support of shot lighting using various production tools.
• Perform creative lighting development setup as required using lighting and compositing tools.
• Optimize setups for rendering.
• Serve as lighting & compositing point person in production specific meetings and reviews.

• Aesthetic eye for light composition and detail.
• Strong understanding of color, contrast, and lighting design is required.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Ideally 3-5 years’ experience in the television, feature film or gaming industries.
• Experience in Maya and Nuke required.
• Node-based compositing experience required (preferably Nuke).
• Experience compositing render passes generated from V-Ray and Mental Ray.
• Python scripting experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of Linear Workflows.
• Experience with asset management software.
• Experience in Television, series, or game production highly desirable.