Lighting Artist

2 weeks ago

Montréal, Canada FOLKS VFX Full time

Company Description
**FOLKS, as a VFX studio, is in a category of its own.**

**It’s in the name, our FOLKS are our strength.**

**As a team, we are proving to our clients that high-end digital art can be created and delivered while respecting a work life balance.**

**To ensure that creating magic on screen remains a great professional motivation as well as a personal challenge, our managers offer guidance and support to the entire team valuing collaborative relationships.**

**Job Description**:
**Lighting Artists** are the last bastion of the CG team, handing out the carefully crafted pixels to the compositors by enhancing the atmosphere, shape, and mood of a CG scene. They observe, replicate, and craft beautiful lighting.

They collaborate with CG & Lighting Supervisors to determine the best approaches to solving CG challenges, find creative and technical solutions and develop the final look.
- Immediate Supervisor: Lighting Supervisor
- Works closely with: Other CG Artists, CG Supervisors, Department Managers, and Compositing Artists

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**As a FOLKS artist**
- Pursues the highest quality and pushes to create the most engaging images
- Works successfully as part of a team, seeks collaboration opportunities
- Organizes, prioritizes, and communicates to meet production needs
- Takes part in creative discussions and actively participates in dailies
- Addresses notes and keeps the end goal in mind while iterating on the work
- Stays flexible and adaptable with the ability to work within a set workflow as well as having the creativity and problem-solving skills to work around issues

**As a Lighting Artist**
- Assembles lighting scenes using elements from upstream departments, deals with complexity
- Matches shot lighting to plates and references, creates original and appealing lighting for full CG content
- Creates lighting setups in collaboration with supervisors, leads, and other team members
- Performs quality control on shots before they are submitted for review, ensuring all technical and artistic standards are met
- Solves common optimization issues, refers to documentation and established workflows

**Qualifications**:
**Requirements**:

- 3+ years' experience on feature films, series or animated features
- Experience with shot and asset look development
- Real world understanding of natural, artificial, and cinema lighting

**Desirable**
- Experience in scripting, preferably Python and VEX, is a plus

Additional Information

This is a full-time position. Immediate start. Hybrid work environment, face-to-face and working from home. We offer a salary that matches your skills and a complete benefits package.

If you think you have what it takes to join Folks, please fill out the form below to arrange an interview.

Nothing in this job description restricts the Company’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The Company prohibits discrimination in employment against otherwise qualified applicants because of a physical or mental disability and will make reasonable accommodations to enable qualified persons with known disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job consistent with applicable law. The Company will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.

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