Senior Blender Lighting and Compositing Artist (Blender)

TL;DR

Senior Blender Lighting and Compositing Artist (Blender): Defining the mood and atmosphere for animated narratives and highlighting character details with an accent on creative problem-solving and maintaining quality within deadlines. Focus on creating lighting setups, finessing colors in compositing, and collaborating across departments to move projects forward efficiently.

Location: Remote within the United Kingdom is negotiable, otherwise hybrid in London, UK.

Company

Blue Zoo is a leading, B Corp certified animation studio in the UK, known for creating bold, fun, and characterful animation.

What you will do

• Create lighting setups in Blender matching specific creative briefs or visions.
• Tweak provided light rigs, render setups, and compositing templates to achieve the required shot look.
• Monitor renders to ensure they are within given render time budgets.
• Collaborate across departments to address production challenges and communicate effectively.
• Problem solve errors and glitches, and efficiently address feedback notes.
• Manage your time effectively to meet deadlines and proactively flag potential delays.

Requirements

• Strong understanding and knowledge of Blender for lighting, rendering & compositing.
• Previous experience as a Blender L&C Artist on an animation production.
• Knowledge of lighting principles and their application in stylised animation.
• Technical understanding of how lighting works in 3D rendering, including physically based rendering, ray tracing, and global illumination.
• Technical understanding of biased rendering to optimise sampling and avoid noise/artefacts.
• An understanding of colour theory, aesthetics, and composition.

Nice to have

• Experience using Flow/Shotgrid.
• Knowledge of shading.
• Understanding of a 3D production pipeline.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working options to support staff wellbeing.
• Inclusive self-funded shorts programme.
• Many fun in-person and remote social events throughout the year.
• Comprehensive benefits package including loads of discounts and offers.
• Online wellbeing programme.
• Profit share for employees with 2+ years tenure.