Lighting / Shading Artist: Mid. - Sen. Level

This is a Full Time Job

We are looking for motivated, creative and smart people!

Pixomondo (PXO) is an award-winning, solutions-oriented visual effects company that solves creative challenges for its clients and partners, crafting high-level visual effects for feature films, television series and commercials productions. For its work, PXO has won four Emmy Awards, an Academy Award and numerous other industry awards.

Do you see yourself working for Pixomondo in the future? Send us your application now.

Together we can let the dragons ascend from the ashes!

Minimum Requirements:
• 3 years of Lighting experience in visual effects
• Strong Knowledge of Maya, Arnold, and Nuke
• Strong understanding of rendering methods (Render Setup) & shading models
• Previous experience performing Look Development tasks
• Experience of photo-real lighting
• Be comfortable with a Windows/Linux OS environment
• Experience with Shotgun would be an asset
• Houdini experience (Solaris) a plus!
• Unreal Engine experience a plus!
• Well developed organization and communication skills (fluent in English and/or German)
• Ability to manage time and priorities tasks to succeed under tight deadlines
• Enjoy being part of a team to collaborate, assist others and be willing to share techniques and skills

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Create and design lighting for complex scenes.
• Look development of assets, environments, and FX elements.
• Work with supervisors, leads, and compositing team to ensure all elements reach the desired look and delivery.
• Ability to self-troubleshoot renders.
• Pre-composite shots in Nuke.
• Sustain great team dynamics.
• Maintain shot quotas set by production and leads.
• Key-Lighting and templated shots for propagations and sequences (Senior.)
• Ability to identify problematic shots that may affect delivery schedules and communicate concerns to leads and supervisors.
• Ensure shot continuity.

Additional Requirements:
• Only EU applicants can be considered for this position
• Relocation costs not covered for these positions
• Include your current resume, reel breakdown and a link to your demo reel and rate