Lighting Artist

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

A Lighting and Texturing Artist is a vital contributor to the visual effects team, specializing in creating lifelike textures and manipulating light to bring CGI to life. This role involves generating photorealistic textures from scratch, ensuring they seamlessly integrate into the 3D environment, and adjusting lighting to enhance the overall visual appeal of CGI content.

Key Responsibilities:

Lighting: Implement and adjust lighting setups to complement textures and the overall scene, ensuring a coherent visual output.

Texture Creation: Produce photorealistic textures from scratch, adhering to technical and aesthetic standards across various projects.

Collaboration: Work closely with modelers, look development artists, and lighting teams to ensure textures and lighting schemes are technically and aesthetically harmonious.

Mentorship: Provide guidance to junior artists, fostering a collaborative and educational environment.

Technical Proficiency: Utilize software like Mari, Substance Painter, Maya, and Photoshop to create and apply textures; experience with lighting tools is also essential.

Problem-Solving: Address and solve technical issues related to texturing and lighting within the CGI pipeline.

Quality Assurance: Ensure all texturing and lighting work meets project requirements and client expectations.

Project Management: Efficiently manage time and resources to meet deadlines and project milestones.

Continuous Learning: Stay updated on industry trends, new software, and techniques in texturing and lighting.

Preferred Software Skills:

Substance Painter: Skill in creating realistic textures and materials.

Maya: Experience in texturing, lighting, and general 3D modelling.

Photoshop: For editing texture maps and photos.

Mari: For creating photorealistic textures.

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in texturing and lighting within the CGI or VFX industry.

Strong understanding of colour spaces, lighting principles, and the texture creation process.

Excellent communication, organizational, and teamwork skills.

A portfolio showcasing high-quality texturing and lighting work.

This role requires a blend of artistic talent and technical proficiency, enabling the creation of visually stunning CGI that enhances storytelling and audience engagement.

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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