Regional Only | Lead Lighting and Compositing Artist

Blue Zoo Productions • London, United Kingdom • 2d ago

Our Lead Lighting and Compositing Artists (“L&C”) are wonderful visual storytellers and excellent motivators. They lead their team in defining the mood and atmosphere of our narratives, and highlight the charming details of our characters, props and environments.

Your day-to-day will focus on creating the lighting of our episodes, finessing the colours in compositing, whilst always keeping the right balance between high quality and meeting deadlines. You will also be responsible for distributing work across your team members so that the workload is evenly balanced, and communicate with your supervisor and other departments to make sure the project is running smoothly.

We are very happy to discuss flexible, hybrid and remote working options for all our vacancies. Please note, this opportunity is due to start late February 2026 and that this vacancy can close early if we receive a high number of applications.

The successful candidates will need to be based in the UK and will require the right to work in the UK.

Ideally, the successful candidate will be within a commutable distance to our Brighton Zoo studio, though this is not essential.

Day to day:

Leading a team of lighting and compositing artists
Creating lighting scenes in Maya with assets from the animation and effects departments and then compositing these rendered shots in Nuke to create the final shot
Tweaking provided light rigs, render set-ups and compositing templates to achieve the required look shots
Tweaking render settings to optimise the efficiency of renders
Monitoring renders to ensure they are within a given render time budget
Arranging daily catch ups with your team to make sure they are on track and aware of their daily tasks
Working with the Supervisor to brief your team on new episodes
Managing your team efficiently to meet the deadlines of all assigned shots. Flagging to the Supervisor and Production in advance if there are any potential issues
Responsible for quality control across your team's episodes, and making sure the episodes are presented to the Director and Supervisor in a way that is clean and to the high standard of the production
Fixing errors and glitches through problem solving and addressing notes efficiently
Talking up and down the pipeline to other supervisors and leads, troubleshooting any issues, as well as keeping Production and Supervisor aware where appropriate
Supervising or working on R&D to make sure any necessary research is done before each episode starts
Producing templates for L&C with or without the support of team members, to maintain consistent quality across your team and support junior team members
Taking on the more challenging or technical shots in the episode
Mentoring the team and helping with their development, including participating in your team’s review sessions along with the Supervisor
Updating the Supervisor on the team’s progress, communicating any concerns regarding the teams’ performance and wellbeing

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