
Senior Lighting Artist
Pixomondo
Montreal, QCThis is a Full Time Job
We are currently hiring a Senior Lighting Artist for our Montreal studio.
Key Responsibilities include:
• 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.
Requirements
• 5 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
• Good communication & interpersonal skills
• Ability to work within a strong team environment
• Experience with Shotgun an asset
• Be comfortable with a Windows/Linux OS environment
• Experience with Houdini (Solaris) a plus
• Unreal Engine experience a plus
Additional Requirements:
• Must live in Montreal and already be eligible to work in Canada. It is not possible to provide work visa or relocation assistance for this position.
• Pixomondo is an international company established in 5 countries. For production purposes, fluency in English is required.
Additional Information
PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, creates industry-leading Visualization, Virtual Production, and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. With a 23-year history, this Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy-winning creative and technology company has been a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide, producing iconic works such as Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning Hugo and multiple seasons of HBO's Emmy-winning Game of Thrones, along with recent projects like House of the Dragon, Amazon's The Boys, and Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 4. In Virtual Production, PXO collaborates with filmmakers from the initial drawing to the final pixel, utilizing interactive technology and proprietary software to immerse filmmakers in their imagined worlds throughout the creative process. The company's LED virtual production work includes notable titles such as House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Reacher, and Amazon's critically acclaimed Cada Minuto Cuenta. PXO operates seven creative studios and three LED volumes across the US, UK, Germany, and Canada.