Senior Lighting / Compositing Artist - Temp (SFD / Cinematics)
About The Position
The Blizzard Entertainment Animation team is seeking an experienced Senior Lighting / Compositing Artist to contribute to Blizzard’s imaginative worlds. The team values a tight-knit environment that celebrates artistic passion and pushing creative boundaries. This role involves making shots epic for both pre-rendered and real-time content across various Blizzard franchises, including Diablo, World of Warcraft (WoW), Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, and StarCraft. This is a temporary position with an anticipated term of roughly two-and-a-half months. The role is expected to be a hybrid work position, combining on-site work at the potential home studio in Irvine, CA, with work-from-home, and also offers the possibility of remote work arrangements.
Requirements
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in the game, TV, feature film, or commercial production environment.
- Experience working with Directors, Lighting Supervisors and/or Leads to develop, define and maintain lighting and compositing setups.
- A demo reel showcasing a refined artistic understanding of light, composition, and mood.
- Well versed in Katana, Nuke, Maya, Linux, Renderman-RIS, Redshift and a decent understanding of modern game engines.
- Can easily adapt to new pipelines and proprietary lighting tools.
- Ability to independently design, implement, and troubleshoot complex multi-shot lighting and compositing setups.
- Strong eye for cinematic lighting, color grading, and shot continuity—able to establish and maintain a look across sequences.
- Ability to determine the best approach to tackle lighting and compositing challenges and develop the final overall look.
- Ability to perform tasks associated with the compositing and lighting process, including 2D tracking, layering of elements, color grading, roto work, projection of elements, and extensive 3D compositing.
- Comfortable working in an iteration intensive shot pipeline.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in a full 3D Animated Pipeline.
- Experience working in a real-time Game Engine Pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement lighting characters and environments for shots that meet and enhance the given art direction.
- Maintain the overall look, color balance, and quality for assigned shots and sequences to create uniformity in all finished work.
- Work with the FX department to integrate and develop FX.
- Work closely with VFX supervisors, Art Directors, Producers, Lighting/Compositing Supervisor and Leads to achieve the final look.
- Accountable for achieving productivity and quota targets.
- Responsible for completing and quality control of all lighting and compositing of shots.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Health savings account or health reimbursement account
- Healthcare spending accounts
- Dependent care spending accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation
- Paid sick time
- Floating holidays
- Compassion and bereavement leaves
- Parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs
- Fitness programs
- Free and discounted games
- Supplemental life & disability
- Legal service
- ID protection
- Rental insurance
- Relocation assistance (if the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job)
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
