CG / Lighting Artist

Blackkitestudios; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative visual effects studio in Greater London seeks a CG Artist to deliver exceptional VFX work across various projects. The ideal candidate should possess expertise in Houdini, Maya, and production-quality renderers like Arnold. Responsibilities include building light rigs, managing production assets, and collaborating with other artists. The studio values talent, creativity, and teamwork, encouraging innovative ideas and excellence in visual storytelling.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in commercials, TV, or film VFX work.
• Thorough understanding of techniques for lighting and rendering.
• Experience in asset creation and scene assembly.
• Keen eye for quality control and visual style.

Responsibilities

• Carry out generalist tasks across high-end VFX projects.
• Build light rigs and shading setups.
• Collaborate with artists on shot development.
• Manage production assets and render scenes.
• Model and texture CG assets for various shots.

Skills

Creating high quality VFX work

Understanding of lighting and rendering techniques

Experience with Houdini

Experience with Maya

Critical eye for quality control

Excellent team player

Good communication skills

Knowledge of Nuke

Tools

Arnold

Mantra

Karma

Mantra

Nuke

Job description

Black Kite is an independent creative studio offering world-class visual effects and design. We are a talent-first, technology-inspired studio.

Our community is home to a collective of top-tier talent. A group of artists, creators, designers, producers and technologists that have come together to make exceptional artistic visual content.

The CG Artist role at BLACK KITE

As a CG Artist at Black Kite, you are responsible for delivering creative excellence from pitch through to delivery. You will be working across a wide variety of high end VFX projects. You will create the look of computer-generated objects and scenes and will be responsible for asset creation, layout, lighting, shading/look-development, rendering, and some compositing. You will also have the opportunity to apply your broader CG generalist skills on projects to create outstanding VFX work!

Responsibilities

• Carry out a range of generalist tasks along the CG pipeline, across a range of high end VFX projects.
• Build and support light rigs and shading setups
• Develop shot and render passes as needed in collaboration with other artists and leads
• Manage render scenes, light rigs and production assets
• Model, texture and look-development of CG assets to be used across shots and sequences
• Troubleshoot your assets, scenes, renders and the pipeline as necessary
• Technically and creatively promote and maintain consistent shot quality and desired look
• Work effectively with other 3D and Compositing artists in a creative, collaborative team.
• Use all of your wider generalist skills to deliver projects that look visually outstanding on time and on budget.
• Inspire a culture of creative innovation.

Why YOU?

• You have demonstrable experience creating high quality VFX work across commercials, TV or film.
• You have a thorough understanding of techniques and technologies related to lighting, rendering and look development, asset creation, & scene assembly.
• You have experience using Houdini and Maya
• You have experience using production quality renderers, including Arnold and Mantra or Karma.
• You have and are keen to use your wider generalist skills.
• You have a critical eye and a can-do problem-solving attitude
• You have a keen eye for quality control and visual style.
• You are an excellent communicator
• You are an excellent team player
• You have good working knowledge of nuke for creating pre-comps
• You always strive to produce outstanding visual results

WHY US?

• We believe in talent, creativity and innovation.
• We believe that creativity is the differentiator, it sits at the very heart of everything we do and the reason why Black Kite was born.
• We back ourselves to grow and be the best, to always improve, but never lose sight of our values and principles.
• We care about our people.
• At Black kite we look out for each other and believe in doing things the right way. We place importance on a code of shared ethics and treating people fairly and with respect.
• We believe in the power of team work and togetherness to achieve the extraordinary.
• We are big on ambition.
• We are excited about the future.