Senior Blender Lighting and Compositing Artist

About The Role

Our Blender Lighting and Compositing Artists (“L&C”) are wonderful visual storytellers. They define the mood and atmosphere of our narratives, and highlight the charming details of our characters, props and environments. They are the savants of light, colour and creative problem solving.

Your day-to-day will focus on creating the lighting, finessing the colours in compositing, whilst always maintaining the right balance between the highest quality and meeting deadlines.

The succesful canddiate needs to be based in the UK. Currently, we're unable to consider VISA sponsership.

Please note, this vacancy can close early if we receive a high number of applications.

• Use lighting setups in Blender to match a specific creative brief or vision, including adjusting light types, intensities and colour
• Work closely with your Creative Lead in creating lighting setups if required
• Tweaking provided light rigs, render set-ups and compositing templates to achieve the required look of your shot
• Updating render settings to optimise the efficiency of renders within Cycles or Eevee engines
• Monitoring your renders to ensure they are within a given render time budget
• Collaborate across departments to address production challenges, clearly communicating with teammates both within and outside of L&C to move projects forward
• Problem solving to fix errors and glitches and addressing notes efficiently
• Manage your time effectively to meet shot deadlines, proactively flagging any potential delays with your Creative Lead and Production as early as possible
• Take direction constructively and implement feedback from your Creative Lead or Director with a positive, solution-focused mindset

• Use lighting setups in Blender to match a specific creative brief or vision, including adjusting light types, intensities and colour
• Work closely with your Creative Lead in creating lighting setups if required
• Tweaking provided light rigs, render set-ups and compositing templates to achieve the required look of your shot
• Updating render settings to optimise the efficiency of renders within Cycles or Eevee engines
• Monitoring your renders to ensure they are within a given render time budget
• Collaborate across departments to address production challenges, clearly communicating with teammates both within and outside of L&C to move projects forward
• Problem solving to fix errors and glitches and addressing notes efficiently
• Manage your time effectively to meet shot deadlines, proactively flagging any potential delays with your Creative Lead and Production as early as possible
• Take direction constructively and implement feedback from your Creative Lead or Director with a positive, solution-focused mindset

• Experience using Flow/Shotgrid
• Knowledge of shading
• Understanding of a 3D production pipeline

Blue Zoo is a leading animation studio in the UK, with a world-class reputation as the go-to place for creating bold, fun and characterful animation. Established in London in 2000, the studio has grown to become the largest dedicated CG animation studio in the UK, picking up a shelf full of BAFTAs, an Annie and an Emmy along the way!

We couldn’t be prouder that Blue Zoo is the first major animation studio in the world to receive B Corp certification. We’ve been independently certified by B Lab, a non-profit organisation who award the B Corp certification. The certification verifies companies who are working to improve the lives of employees as well as industries as a whole. The certification process involves over 170 rigorous metrics to improve the lives of our staff, customers, suppliers, and the local community, ensuring we are not just saying we are ethical with empty gestures, but independently evidencing it.

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