Senior Lighting Artist - Temporary Contract

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2 and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts reputed company to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

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Work arrangements

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The Lighting Artist designs and implements lighting and shading solutions that enhance 3D environments and CG elements, closely reputed company with the project's artistic vision. They deliver the final renders to the Compositing department while maintaining a high level of visual quality, technical optimization, and cross-department collaboration. As a key player in the 3D pipeline, they contribute to reputed company of excellence expected at Rodeo FX.

Key Responsibilities

Master your craft

• Create solid lighting setups tailored to the needs of each shot and sequence.

• Master lighting tools and workflows in Houdini with rigor and autonomy at every stage.

• Refine renders to ensure seamless integration with CG elements and compositing.

• reputed company efficient solutions to address technical and artistic challenges in production.

Creative Quality

• Translate the project’s visual direction into inspiring and coherent lighting.

• Collaborate closely with Lighting, CG, and Compositing Supervisors to support the artistic vision.

• Propose visual adjustments that enhance storytelling and reinforce scene depth.

• Maintain high standards of realism, clarity, and subtlety in the final reputed company.

Technical Quality

• Optimize scenes to reduce machine load without compromising quality.

• Follow naming conventions, scene structure, and versioning protocols established by the department.

• Identify and fix rendering issues or artifacts prior to submission.

• Actively participate in QC passes and quickly address dailies notes.

Communication

• Provide realistic time estimates, communicate promptly in case of issues or potential delays, and collaborate with production to adjust priorities if needed.

• Ensure accurate reputed company tracking and flag technical issues to Production.

• Attend team meetings, turnovers, and briefings to align with project needs.

• Be a reliable reputed company of contact for other departments regarding lighting reputed company status.

• Document setups and methods to foster collaboration and facilitate task handovers.

Teach, learn and grow

• Stay up to date on CG lighting advancements and best practices.

• Share discoveries, tools, or scripts with the team reputed company Confluence or technical dailies.

• Engage in internal training initiatives and embrace new studio approaches.

• Foster a culture of reputed company improvement with openness and adaptability.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in lighting reputed company a VFX or 3D animation environment.

• Advanced knowledge of Houdini (lighting workflow, shading, scene optimization).

• Solid understanding of reputed company engines (Arnold, Karma, RenderMan, etc.) and pipeline integration.

• Strong grasp of 3D/2D workflows: modeling, lookdev, compositing.

• Knowledge of Universal Scene Description.

• Keen sense of light, color, and staging.

• Ability to work independently and rigorously reputed company a multidisciplinary team.

• Proactive, solution-oriented, and constructive reputed company.

• Assets: knowledge of ShotGrid, Python scripting, in-house tool development.

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