Senior Lighting Artist (Visual Effects)

TL;DR

Senior Lighting Artist (Visual Effects): Create and design lighting for complex scenes and look development of assets, environments, and FX elements with an accent on ensuring desired look and delivery in collaboration with leads and compositing team. Focus on self-troubleshooting renders, pre-compositing shots, and maintaining shot continuity in a high-paced production environment.

Location: Onsite in Vancouver, Canada

Salary: $100,000–$115,000 CAD

Company

hirify.global, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, creates industry-leading Virtual Production and Visual Effects for premium film and episodic content.

What you will do

• Create and design lighting for complex scenes.
• Perform look development of assets, environments, and FX elements.
• Collaborate with supervisors, leads, and compositing team to achieve desired visual outcomes.
• Self-troubleshoot renders and pre-composite shots in Nuke.
• Maintain shot quotas and ensure shot continuity.
• Identify problematic shots affecting delivery schedules and communicate concerns to leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Lighting experience in visual effects.
• Strong knowledge of Maya, Arnold, and Nuke.
• Strong understanding of rendering methods (Render Setup) and shading models.
• Previous experience performing Look Development tasks.
• Experience with photo-real lighting.
• Ability to work onsite in a Vancouver studio.

Nice to have

• Experience with Shotgun.
• Comfortable with Windows/Linux OS environment.
• Experience with Houdini (Solaris).
• Unreal Engine experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work for an award-winning company (20+ awards/nominations).
• Part of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
• Support for a strong team environment and dynamics.
• Equal opportunity employer.