Artist

• Maintain artistic direction and quality
• Work with Leads and other Lighting Artists to create high-quality lighting schemes aligned with the project's universe and visual direction
• Light scenes or levels based on reference photographs and/or concept art materials
• Drive narrative storytelling through effective use of color, light, and mood
• Light scenes, levels, or cinematics according to creative and technical briefs and deadlines
• Participate in reviews and implement feedback from leads and peers
• Participate in R&D initiatives to explore new techniques and improve pipelines and workflows
• Work with developers across multiple disciplines and ensure work is integrated into the build
• Balance visual quality with game performance requirements
• Review and playtest work in the editor and in-game

Lighting Artist creating Unreal Engine visuals for People Can Fly’s AAA action games

Artiste d’éclairage, Lighting Artist

Lighting Artist creating high-quality Unreal Engine lighting for People Can Fly’s AAA action games. Shaping narrative mood, visuals, and performance across scenes, levels, and cinematics.

• Mastery of his craft
• Produce complex simulations (smoke, fire, explosions, liquids, destruction, magical or abstract effects) while respecting artistic and technical guidelines
• Use Houdini effectively (Pyro, Flip, RBD, Vellum, SOPs) to generate optimized and adaptable effects
• Maintain a high level of autonomy in the management of assigned FX tasks, from initial setup to final rendering
• Ensure rigorous quality control of its files, caches and workfiles before any submission
• Propose simple, effective artistic solutions aligned with the vision of the project
• Actively participate in dailies and integrate feedback constructively
• Adapt the effects to the narrative needs, visual style and pace of the scene
• Improve shooting by adding creative value to simulations
• Ensure cache optimization, setup stability and compliance with internal technical conventions
• Quickly identify technical problems and provide functional solutions
• Collaborate with the Pipeline team to integrate or test new tools as needed by the project
• Check the compatibility of effects with other departments (layout, lighting, comp)
• Provide realistic estimates, communicate quickly if there are difficulties or risks of delay, and collaborate with production to adjust priorities if necessary
• Maintain a fluid and respectful exchange with production, leads and artists from other disciplines
• Communicate clearly about issues, deadlines, needs or technical limitations
• Actively participate in turnovers, briefings or progress monitoring with the project team
• Stay up to date with the latest practices, techniques and references in visual effects
• Share your knowledge, tools or techniques with your colleagues
• Participate in documenting or improving the working methods of the FX department
• Welcome feedback with openness with a view to continuous progress

Freelance FX Artist creating complex visual simulations at Rodeo FX

Freelance FX Artist

Freelance FX Artist creating photorealistic effects for film and advertising at Rodeo FX. Collaborating in the 3D pipeline to deliver dynamic and technically solid visual content.

• Prepare Delivery Files: Organize and package files for stereoscopic conversion, making sure required assets and dependencies are included and structured correctly.
• Clean Shot Setups: Remove internal-only notes, temp elements, hidden data, and anything else that should not be included in the client-facing package.
• Check for Common Issues: Open files, review setups, and flag broken links, missing assets, version mismatches, or other issues that could create downstream problems.
• Support Delivery Readiness: Work closely with the Supervisor and TA to help move shots and packages through final prep efficiently and accurately.
• Maintain Organized Handoffs: Keep files, versions, and delivery materials well organized so the team can track readiness and reduce confusion during busy delivery periods.

Stereoscopic Prep Artist preparing files for stereoscopic conversion in feature animation

Stereoscopic Prep Artist – Lighting & Compositing

Stereoscopic Prep Artist preparing files for stereoscopic conversion in feature animation. Organizing assets and ensuring clean deliveries for clients under tight deadlines.

• Create high-quality real-time hair, fur, eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair, and other grooming assets for hero and supporting characters.
• Develop hair grooms that faithfully capture the intended style, silhouette, and personality of each character.
• Collaborate closely with Character Artists and Art Directors to achieve the desired visual quality and artistic direction.
• Optimise hair assets to meet performance, memory, and platform requirements without compromising visual fidelity.
• Integrate and refine hair assets within the game engine, ensuring they function correctly with shading, simulation, and animation systems.
• Work alongside Technical Artists to resolve technical challenges relating to grooming workflows, shaders, simulation, and rendering.
• Maintain consistency across multiple characters while adapting to a variety of hairstyles and art styles.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues relating to deformation, physics, LODs, and asset implementation.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of grooming workflows, documentation, and production pipelines.

Senior Hair Artist creating digital characters at Lakshya Digital.

Hair Artist

Senior Hair Artist at Lakshya Digital, creating high-quality digital characters for AAA titles. Collaborating with diverse teams to develop realistic hair and fur assets.

• Review grey-box levels and develop a clear artistic vision that supports gameplay, readability, and the overall visual direction.
• Break environments into achievable work packages and produce accurate estimates for asset creation and implementation.
• Create comprehensive asset briefs, including reference, technical specifications, modular requirements, and quality expectations.
• Work closely with production to plan, prioritise, and track environment deliverables.
• Guide and review the work of a distributed team of environment artists, providing clear feedback to ensure consistent quality.
• Oversee the implementation of environment assets within Unity, ensuring they integrate cleanly with existing systems and workflows.
• Drive optimisation throughout production, balancing visual quality with performance, memory, and production cost.
• Collaborate with designers, technical artists, and engineers to resolve artistic and technical challenges.
• Identify opportunities to maximise asset reuse, modularity, and efficient production workflows.
• Maintain documentation, pipelines, and best practices to support consistent delivery across the team.

Senior World Artist creating environments for a sports/racing title at Lakshya Digital

Senior World Artist

Senior World Artist leading environment delivery for a sports/racing title in Unity at Lakshya Digital. Collaborating on high-quality visuals while ensuring efficiency and technical standards.

• Créer des composites numériques et des effets visuels de haute qualité, en intégrant harmonieusement les divers éléments d’un plan.
• Compléter toutes tâches de composition selon les directives des superviseurs des effets visuels et de la composition.
• Collaborer avec les superviseurs et les autres compositeurs afin de s’assurer que les plans sont livrés dans les délais prévus, d’après les normes de qualité les plus élevées.
• Comprendre et respecter les directives de production.
• Réviser, exécuter et mettre en œuvre les commentaires rapidement et efficacement.
• Effectuer le keying, la composition d'éléments CG et de plans de fonds, travailler avec le système et les projections Nuke 3D et faire le lookdev des plans.
• Résoudre des problèmes créatifs et techniques à courtes échéances et délais serrés.

Compositing Artist assembling shots and creating visual effects

Compositing Artist

Compositing Artist responsible for high-quality digital composites in 2D team at Zero VFX. Assembling shots and integrating visual elements for artistic vision support.

• Design and animate high-quality photorealistic effects (fire, smoke, water, explosions, debris, clouds, etc.) that meet all technical and aesthetic project standards.
• Work within the project's structure (show) and production timelines to complete assigned tasks.
• Collaborate with production, supervisors, and creative teams to proactively identify and resolve technical and creative challenges.
• Work closely with Lighting and Compositing artists to ensure all effects integrate seamlessly into the project's pipeline.
• Produce visual look tests based on provided reference materials.
• Follow guidance from the Supervisor and FX Leads, and provide direction and mentorship to other FX Artists.
• Participate in dailies, rounds, and team reviews of work in progress.
• Help foster a positive, productive, and collaborative work environment.

FX Artist creating photorealistic effects for 3D projects at Zero VFX

FX Artist

FX Artist creating high quality dynamic 3D visual effects, focusing on water, magic, and destruction. Collaborating closely with production and creative teams at Zero VFX.

• Manage, supervise, and advocate for the team's needs by following an established development process and by performing hands-on work on levels, content, and documentation to efficiently produce playable levels that align with the Art Director's vision, level design requirements, and narrative needs while meeting production constraints and performance targets.
• Lead a team and foster a motivating work environment to achieve the best possible outcomes for the project and support the personal development of team members.
• Create level geometry and world composition in Unreal Engine.
• Ensure the technical consistency of all environment art elements across the project while adhering to established processes.
• Make sure all created assets meet the technical and design requirements of the engine effectively.
• Define, maintain, and communicate quality standards and completion criteria for environment art elements.
• Translate the Art Director's vision into clear artistic direction for the team and ensure its consistent implementation.
• Execute tasks according to specifications and ensure smooth workflows are maintained to meet deadlines.
• Work closely with production on task allocation and scheduling to meet milestones while promoting a healthy work-life balance through clear expectations and frameworks.
• Oversee bug fixes and write R&D case studies for the knowledge base.
• Identify risks and communicate them as early as possible, proposing solutions to manage them according to project needs.
• Provide daily feedback to maintain the desired quality level and to support the team's development.
• Collaborate with the team to find solutions and resolve problems creatively.
• Share knowledge and mentor colleagues.
• Work with the technical art team and encourage R&D initiatives to explore new techniques and improve workflows and processes.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with other managers, directors, and project stakeholders across departments to ensure efficiency and minimize misunderstandings.
• Conduct regular performance and compensation reviews for team members.
• Lead recruitment initiatives in collaboration with HR.
• Ensure the onboarding and integration of new hires.

Lead Level Artist managing AAA quality environment art and team collaboration

Lead Level Artist

Lead Level Artist overseeing AAA quality environment creation in Unreal Engine. Collaborating with a global team at PCF to deliver engaging gaming experiences.

• Handle lighting and rendering of CG shots and images
• Create and modify lighting scenes in Katana
• Set up AOVs in RenderMan
• Ensure continuity between shots within a sequence
• Work with supervisors and leads to achieve the correct look in the composite
• Composite shots to achieve the final look in Nuke
• Project matte paintings onto cards or geometry in Nuke
• Work with the matte painting supervisor and understand what the DMP (Digital Matte Painting) department produces and how to use it
• Optimize RenderMan render settings to achieve the cleanest and fastest output on the render farm
• Troubleshoot Katana files for technical issues
• Communicate issues and raise blockers to the lead or supervisor for timely resolution
• Participate in reviews requested by the Supervisor and Director, demonstrating analytical and proactive thinking
• Check the quality of your render layers to ensure correct output for compositing
• Maintain the production schedule and shot quotas provided by the production coordinator using the Shotgun dashboard
• Organize work and prepare dailies for review
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication and a collaborative, supportive approach when working with team members
• Mentor and provide support to junior artists, offering guidance and instruction

Lighting Artist creating and modifying CG shots at Bardel Entertainment

Lighting Artist – Featurette

Lighting Artist in Montreal creating and modifying CG shots for animated films. Collaborate with production teams, ensuring visual quality and continuity in sequences.

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
• Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects.
• Maintain visual consistency across related environments, gameplay spaces, sequences, times of day, and lighting conditions.
• Bring assigned scenes from initial lighting setup through final polish.
• Respond to feedback from Art Direction, project leadership, and clients in a timely and professional manner.
• Ensure completed work meets project requirements for quality, performance, organization, and delivery.
• Help oversee lighting work for an assigned scene, group of scenes, feature, or milestone when requested by project leadership.
• Review the work of other lighting artists or multidisciplinary artists contributing to lighting.
• Provide clear, respectful, and actionable feedback through written notes, live reviews, reference images, paintovers, or in-engine examples.
• Help ensure lighting work follows approved visual targets, technical standards, and project requirements.
• Communicate expected outcomes, priorities, and quality standards to artists working within an assigned area.
• Monitor the visual progress of assigned lighting work and identify scenes that may require additional revision or support.
• Confirm that feedback has been addressed before work is submitted for senior, Art Director, or client review.
• Support junior or less-experienced artists with lighting fundamentals, engine workflows, scene organization, optimization, and production practices.
• Lead by example through reliable execution, clear communication, constructive collaboration, and professional conduct.
• Escalate unresolved quality, schedule, scope, or technical concerns to the appropriate senior artist, Art Director, or Producer.

Lighting Artist creating high-quality real-time lighting for GameSim projects

Lighting Artist

Lighting Artist for GameSim, creating high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments. Collaborating with various art and technical teams to ensure quality and meet artistic goals.

• Create high-quality real-time lighting for gameplay environments, levels, cinematics, characters, and interactive sequences.
• Translate art direction, concept art, reference material, gameplay requirements, narrative goals, and client feedback into effective lighting solutions.
• Use lighting to establish mood, atmosphere, visual hierarchy, environmental storytelling, and player focus.
• Ensure lighting supports gameplay readability, navigation, combat visibility, character presentation, and important interactive elements.
• Develop and refine exposure, color, contrast, fog, atmosphere, reflections, shadows, emissive response, color grading, and post-processing.
• Create lighting for a range of visual styles, including realistic, stylized, cinematic, and highly art-directed projects.
• Maintain consistency across connected environments, gameplay spaces, cinematics, times of day, weather conditions, and lighting scenarios.
• Bring assigned scenes to final quality while meeting technical requirements and production deadlines.
• Oversee lighting work for an assigned area of the project, such as a level, world region, sequence, feature, or milestone.
• Review the work of lighting artists and other contributors whose work affects the final lighting result.
• Provide clear, constructive, and actionable feedback through live reviews, written notes, paintovers, reference boards, documentation, and in-engine examples.
• Ensure lighting work follows the visual direction, technical standards, and quality expectations established by Art Direction and the client.

Senior Lighting Artist creating high-quality real-time lighting for GameSim projects

Senior Lighting Artist – Talent Pipeline

Senior Lighting Artist responsible for creating real-time lighting and guiding execution across GameSim projects. Collaborating with various teams to ensure quality and efficiency in lighting production.

• Create final look developed assets with minimal supervision and within the studio pipeline
• Apply client notes to all assets with minimal guidance
• Identify solutions and approaches to solve difficult assets without guidance
• Write and/or modify custom Arnold/OSL shaders to realize the desired look for production integration
• Define standard render passes
• Assist in developing standard lighting rigs & setups for look development
• Provide dailied versions for assigned tasks in an agreed upon time by your Supervisor/ Lead
• Attend dailies, reviews & team meetings and participate as required
• Work closely with Lead Lookdev Artist, Lead Lighting TD's and Supervisors to ensure that all assets work within the scope of lighting & color pipeline requirements
• Work closely with texture artists to create necessary texture maps for your work on creatures, props and environments
• Communicate with the R&D/ shader developer in order to ensure all necessary parameters and functionality are included in production shaders
• Manage time and resources to meet weekly targets

Senior Look Development Artist delivering high quality assets at Image Engine

Senior Look Development Artist – Short-Term Contract

Senior Look Development Artist at Image Engine creating high quality look developed assets. Responsible for mentoring junior artists and solving creative challenges in visual effects.

• Dans ce rôle, tu travailleras en étroite collaboration avec l’artiste de niveau en chef et les autres membres de l’équipe afin de créer des environnements et/ou des accessoires (props) de haute qualité.
• Tu seras responsable de créer et d’affiner les assets artistiques pour les aspects du jeu qui te sont assignés, et tu contribueras également à définir les processus, les pipelines et les objectifs esthétiques avec les leaders.
• Grâce à ton expérience, tu aideras à établir un haut niveau de qualité et tu participeras activement au mentorat de l’équipe pour atteindre les meilleurs résultats possibles tout en respectant les contraintes techniques.
• Pour assurer le succès de ton équipe, tu partageras régulièrement ton travail et participeras à des échanges constructifs sur les pistes d’amélioration.
• Tu partageras les meilleures pratiques, recevras du feedback à appliquer et veilleras à ce que ton travail respecte la vision artistique établie du jeu.
• Tu communiqueras fréquemment avec l’équipe de level design des sections dont tu es responsable.

Advanced Level Artist creating high quality environment art at Warner Bros. Games Montréal

Artiste de niveaux avancé

Advanced Level Artist collaborating with team to create environment art for AAA video games. Involves mentoring and maintaining high quality standards in artistic assets and design.

• Combine multiple layers of animation, visual effects, lighting passes, and background elements to create a cohesive image.
• Balance color, light, and depth to ensure visual consistency across shots and sequences.
• Troubleshoot technical issues such as edge inconsistencies, motion blur, and artifact cleanup.
• Collaborate with departments such as Lighting, FX, and Rendering to identify and resolve shot-specific challenges.
• Use compositing software to add depth, atmosphere, and enhancements such as lens effects, color grading, and motion blur.
• Make creative adjustments to ensure the director’s vision is realized in every shot.
• Work closely with the Compositing Supervisor and other team members to align with artistic direction and technical standards.
• Provide feedback to upstream departments (e.g., Modeling, Lighting, FX) to improve workflow efficiency.
• Organize and manage all compositing assets, including file-naming conventions and proper archiving.
• Maintain high standards for file organization and version control.

Compositing Artist integrating 3D rendered assets into polished animated shots

Compositing Artist – Feature Animation

Compositing Artist integrating 3D rendered assets, special effects for polished animated shots at Bardel Entertainment. Collaborating with various departments to ensure artistic intent and technical execution.

• Intégrer de façon fluide et réaliste des éléments aux prises de vue réelles
• Collaborer avec les Leads, Superviseurs et les autres artistes pour respecter les échéanciers serrés
• Produire un travail de haute qualité de façon constante
• Suivre les directives des Superviseurs Compositing afin de concrétiser la vision des clients

Nuke Compositor at Barnstorm VFX creating photo-realistic visual effects

Artiste en compositing – Compositing Artist

Nuke Compositor creating photo-realistic visual effects at Barnstorm VFX. Collaborating with a creative team to deliver high-quality results under tight deadlines.

• Concevoir, maintenir et résoudre les problèmes liés aux rigs corporels et faciaux de haute qualité à l’aide de mGear et Maya.
• Simuler des vêtements, cheveux, muscles et déformations de peau réalistes dans Houdini ou Maya.
• Optimiser et préparer les rigs pour l’animation et les simulations par plan, incluant l’intégration des groomings et la publication des caches.
• Développer et maintenir des outils, scripts et flux de travail internes en Python ou VEX.
• Réaliser des tâches de CFX et de Tech Anim au niveau des plans, incluant la sculpture corrective, le nettoyage des déformations et la résolution des collisions.
• Déboguer, versionner et publier des rigs, caches et simulations à l’aide d’Alembic et USD dans le pipeline de production.
• Utiliser ShotGrid/Flow pour assurer le suivi de vos tâches ainsi que de celles des artistes Creature que vous accompagnez afin de respecter les échéanciers de production.
• Participer aux travaux de rigging, de simulation et de production selon les besoins.

Senior Rigging Artist creating high-quality rigs and simulations at Barnstorm VFX

Rigging Artist

Senior Rigging Artist creating high-quality rigs and simulations for visual effects projects. Working closely with teams to enhance character fidelity and animation processes.

• Create and maintain high-quality lighting setups for CG assets, environments, and visual effects.
• Produce photorealistic renders that seamlessly match live-action footage.
• Collaborate with CG Supervisors, VFX Supervisors, and Compositors to meet the project's artistic and technical goals.
• Contribute to look development and the finalization of shots.
• Optimize scenes and renders while maintaining the highest quality standards.
• Diagnose and solve lighting, rendering, and CG integration issues throughout production.
• Work closely with Environment, FX, Look Development, and Compositing teams to ensure visual consistency across departments.
• Participate in improving lighting workflows and best practices.
• Attend shot reviews and dailies, offering creative and technical solutions.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level artists as needed.

Senior Lighting Artist creating high-quality lighting for virtual effects at Barnstorm VFX

Senior Lighting Artist

Senior Lighting Artist creating high-quality lighting and rendering for VFX at Barnstorm VFX. Collaborating with teams to produce photorealistic visuals for film and television.

• Create captivating lighting that establishes mood, tells a story, and builds a coherent world.
• Support level designers by providing lighting assistance to help them achieve their goals.
• Design and deliver lighting assets as well as IES textures.
• Create dynamic lighting that brings the environment to life.
• Collaborate with the VFX team to create atmospheric 3D scenes using the right color palette and other key artistic elements.
• Create high-end lighting for cinematic sequences.
• Develop new techniques for next-generation hardware and work collaboratively with engineering teams to expand the required toolset.
• Analyze scenes to identify performance issues, ensuring all lighting is optimized as much as possible.
• Collaborate with technical and engine teams to resolve technical lighting issues.

Senior External Development Lighting Artist creating dynamic lighting for video games

Senior External Development Lighting Artist

Senior External Development Lighting Artist creating captivating lighting in video games. Collaborating with designers and engineers while utilizing Unreal Engine expertise.

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