Lighting and Compositing Artist – All Levels – Stellar Creative Lab – Vancouver, BC Full Time

About Us:

At Stellar Creative Lab we live, breathe, and dream animation. We foster a creative and collaborative culture where we face challenges as a team and flourish together. Stellar is a thriving company that will support and mentor your objectives. Curious? – Contact us!

Summary:

Stellar Creative Lab is hiring Lighting and Compositing Artists for an awesome New Streaming Action-Comedy Series for DreamWorks Animation. This project is fun for both youngins and the big kids.

Are you someone who can create beautifully integrated shots/sequences with strong technical troubleshooting abilities? If so, we are looking for you! A partner who encompasses many complementary skills, including composition, color theory, material design and rendering performance.

Our ideal candidate will be able to pick up a sequence and block out the lighting based on reference or key shots, then continue refining the look until final shot approval. All members of the lighting team will also be part of a larger effort focused on designing new tools and workflows that benefit the department as a whole.

What We Need:

• Think outside the box! What can we try that nobody else has? We want to experiment and explore these ideas with you!
• We want to hear your voice, see your originality, and we want you to match our passion and enthusiasm!
• A strong understanding of the lighting and rendering pipeline
• 3+ years experience with path tracing renderers (i.e. Vray, Arnold, RenderMan, Redshift) as well as node based compositing software
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to formulate and test solutions
• Good understanding of 3D assets and their impact on lighting and rendering
• Creativity and efficiency in equilibrium! We need top creative work balanced with the needs of production to meet deadlines, quotas and technical aspects
• Strong ability to work as a team with directors and supervisors, accepting creative criticism and feedback where needed with the knowledge that the creative process is all about development
• A good sense of humor is a bonus

Your Main Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Respond to guidance from the client as well as other creative and technical supervisors
• Demonstrate the ability to identify visual cues and follow direction from art reference
• Using lighting design techniques, direct the viewer’s attention to key story points, convey the mood, and ensure that important action is visible
• Adjust lighting rigs to define the aesthetic look of the show
• Work closely with other artists, FX artists to integrate all the contributing elements to meet the desired final look
• Delivery of final lighting on schedule and within budget

Your Experience, Talents and Abilities:

• 3+ years of experience as a Lighting & Compositing Artist
• Production experience with one or more professional graphics package including Maya, Katana or Houdini and Nuke
• Strong compositing skills with a good understanding of camera effects
• 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
• 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
• Eligible to work in B.C.

Live in Squamish? Kelowna? Vancouver Island? Somewhere in BC with a great internet connection? We can work with that! Stellar Creative Lab encourages artists to work where they live and love where they work. Join us – we have some amazing opportunities.

In response to the COVID – 19 pandemic, Stellar Creative Lab is able to offer the following benefits:

• the option to work at the studio as well as remotely across British Columbia
• ongoing health and safety training
• support for your ergonomic workspace at home