Senior Lighting CGI Artist Lead- Automotive

Hogarth Worldwide Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Lighting CGI Artist to elevate automotive visual content. In this dynamic role, you will leverage cutting-edge 3D software to create stunning imagery while mentoring fellow artists and collaborating with clients. Your expertise in studio lighting and attention to detail will ensure the delivery of exceptional results. Join a diverse team that values creativity and continuous improvement, and enjoy a hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the world of digital content creation!

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private Medical Care (Bupa)

Life Assurance – four times annual salary

Pension Scheme

Extra day leave on your Birthday

Employee Assistance Programme

WPP Group Discounts

Travel Season Ticket Loan

Gym Discounts

Mortgage Advice

Qualifications

• Expertise in lighting and rendering automotive products using industry-standard software.
• Strong understanding of production workflows and quality assurance processes.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality visual content for automotive clients.
• Mentor junior artists and improve production pipelines.

Skills

3D Software Proficiency

Studio Lighting Techniques

Attention to Detail

Client Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

Degree in Visual Effects or related field

Tools

Houdini

3ds Max

V-Ray

Photoshop

Job description

Back to careers Senior Lighting CGI Artist Lead - Automotive London, UK

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 7,500 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.

Department Summary

VFX is delivered across multiple disciplines, channels, clients, and products. We create animated characters, full computer-generated car configurators with millions of variations, computer-generated food with AI backgrounds, photo-real, real-time environments, water simulations for 3D products, digital twins, and much more.

The department includes lighters, modellers, animators, pipeline developers, and producers in both onshore and offshore locations supporting global and local client needs.

What does a CGI Senior Lead Automotive Lighting Artist do at Hogarth?

The CGI Senior Lead Automotive Lighting artist will be essential in creating exceptional visual content for our automotive clients, leveraging the latest 3D software and techniques. This role involves mentoring other artists, overseeing daily operations alongside CGI leads, managing projects, communicating with clients, and troubleshooting their needs. Excel in lighting automotive products, consistently achieving high-fidelity results.

Responsibilities

• Creating exceptional visual content for automotive clients
• Mentoring other artists
• Communicating with clients and building strong relationships with partner agency Art Directors.
• Reviewing work and troubleshooting client requirements
• Being involved in improving production pipelines.

Reporting lines and key stakeholders

This role reports to a CGI Supervisor and will work closely with all our global CGI teams.

Requirements

• Use industry standard 3D software (Houdini/Max/V-Ray) to light and render master-models from our automotive clients.
• Mastery of studio lighting using HDRi techniques as well as full HDRi environment lighting.
• Understand and work with our in-house pipe team to help with complex 3D and USD files to organize, render, and output any content the client needs.
• Be able to use Photoshop to a high standard to enhance the work created.
• Understand and follow all production workflows and procedures, ensuring all assets produced meet the required specification through quality checks.
• Have an exceptional eye for detail and good CGI generalist knowledge.
• Be involved in improving production pipelines.

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.

Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment that inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

The Package

• 25 days holiday
• Private Medical Care (Bupa)
• Life Assurance – four times annual salary
• Pension Scheme
• An extra day leave on your Birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• WPP Group Discounts
• Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Gym Discounts
• Mortgage Advice – In partnership with Charles Cameron and Associate
• 1 Volunteering day per year

We have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for an average of 4 days per week for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.

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 that 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.