Senior Lighting and Compositing Artist

Company Description:

Anima Vitae Point creates international animated films and series with passion and a unique approach. As a company, we strive to be innovative, nurture fresh ideas, and employ artists and technical personnel side by side. As the home of other super-talented artists and technicians, Anima is a place where you truly can make an impact on your work, ideas, and craftsmanship.

We are currently looking for a Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist to join our quest.

Job Summary:

The Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist is responsible for producing and assisting the daily activities of the lighting team and ensuring deliverables are completed on time. You will work closely with the Light Lead & Supervisor and various other teams to successfully meet the show’s technical and creative needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Fulfill the creative expectations set by both client and director, work with Lighting Lead and Lighting Supervisor to solve creative or technical challenges.
• Maintain the overall look, colour balance, and quality for assigned shots and sequences to create uniformity in all finished work.
• Creating exterior and interior light rigs for key light and master shots that can be used in shot production.
• Compositing of rendered layers, as well as effects layers from the special effects team.
• Optimize and troubleshoot lighting and rendering issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Engaging at every stage of production including pre-visualisation of complicated sequences, look development, and research and development.
• May train, mentor, or supervise the work of entry and mid-level generalist artist.
• Provide artistic and technical support and problem solving whenever required.
• Participate in meetings and vocally express your thoughts/ideas.
• Constantly research for new techniques and development skills.
• Produce training materials for improving team skills and optimizing the production process.
• Actively follow up, able to detect bugs, analyze and present solutions.
• Possess a library of references (2D pictures and 3D textures) to use for working and to share with the art team.
• Help the team to update the Lighting bible.
• Train 3D art, coach and mentor Junior Artists.
• Interpret Concept art and colour keys, create 3D renders.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in graphic design, animation, multimedia design, fine art, film studies or CGI and 3D.
• 5+ years of Animation or VFX industry experience.
• Strong working knowledge of 3D software, preferably including Maya, Houdini and Nuke.
• Understanding of lighting fundamentals.
• Intermediate to advanced-level compositing experience.
• Experience with node-based workflow and software.
• Scripting experience with MEL or Python strongly desired.
• Ability to problem solve and predict potential problems with assigned tasks.
• Superior eye for light, mood, colour and details in creating Key Light.
• Ability to improve and optimize existing Lighting & Comp scene.
• Ability to create Key Light base from concept art/color key.
• Ability to resolve any artistic or technical issues.
• Ability to manage personal milestones and deadlines.
• Good English oral communication skill: able to read English emails and reply.
• Commitment and sense of responsibility: Show strong commitment to the teams and to the company and be willing to work hard to complete the task on time.
• Ability to talk in meetings.
• Self-driven, good communicator, and great team player.
• Proactive, autonomous, responsible and well organized.
• Keep positive mindset and managing stress facing issues.
• Experience with 3D texturing a plus.
• Experience with Look Development a plus.
• Experience with Mantra a plus.

Remark:
This position will require the successful applicant to relocate and work on-site at our studio in Malaysia.