VFX Look Dev & 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.

Hogarth Worldwide is the world’s largest and leading marketing content production company. Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world’s most famous brands.

Department Summary: VFX is delivered across multiple disciplines, channels, clients and products. We create animated characters, full computer-generated product configurators with millions of variations, computer-generated products with AI generated images, photo-real, real-time environments, water simulations, digital twins and much more. The department includes all the usual computer graphics disciplines from modellers, animators, lighters to pipeline developers and producers, both onshore and offshore, supporting global and local client needs.

What does a Look Dev & Lighting Artist do at Hogarth?

This role involves working closely with Python developers to define procedural specifications for surfacing, lighting and rendering systems, including shading, lighting, rendering and scene compositing. This role reports to the Procedural VFX Look Dev & Lighting Supervisor and will work closely with all our global CGI/VFX teams.

Responsibilities:

• Shading and Look Development: Define and build procedural systems for creating and applying shaders to assets. Create and fine-tune shaders, integrate textures, and provide tools for manual adjustments of lookdev parameters.
• Lighting: Design and implement lighting setups for scenes, assets, and environments. Specify lighting parameters and ensure the proper integration of lights into the pipeline.
• Procedural Specifications: Collaborate with Python developers to establish clear specifications for how the procedural system should function, covering asset shading, lighting setups, and scene rendering using publishing and dependency.
• Rendering and Compositing: Oversee the rendering process, ensuring the scene is lit with realism and the final output is in line with artistic and technical requirements. Supervise the compositing of rendered elements into the final image or sequence.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of shading, lighting, rendering and compositing workflows.
• Proficiency in Python scripting for procedural tools and pipeline integration.
• Demonstrable experience in lighting and rendering within 3D environments in a mature pipeline.
• Ability to communicate complex technical requirements to Python developers and other technical teams.

Diversity and Inclusion: Hogarth is committed to diversity and inclusion, through our ideas, our people, how we behave and conduct ourselves. Creating a truly inclusive culture at all levels of the organisation that encourages different points of view, making Hogarth not only a better company and place to work but an environment where everyone experiences connection, opportunity and a sense of belonging.

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 which 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.

Benefits:

• Life Assurance – four times annual salary
• Pension Scheme – Company contribution matched up as follows:
• An extra day leave on your Birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• WPP Group Discounts
• Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Mortgage Advice – In partnership with Charles Cameron and Associate
• 1 Volunteering day per year