Senior Lighting Artist (Stockholm, Sweden)

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Milford Creative Studio seeks a Senior Lighting Artist to start work as soon as possible and join our team as a full-time, permanent employee.

If you are an experienced artist with ambition and skills to bring immersive worlds, engaging characters, mysterious creatures and astounding effects to life and meet our client’s expectation of world class CGI, Milford may be the studio for you. We are a quite small studio with a very experienced and skilled team who share the same ambition to deliver world class storytelling in the area of character and creature performance and visual effects. 

Junior artists/interns: If you know you are a world class talent but have not had enough years to prove this, you are welcome to apply at a junior level. Please state this in your cover letter when applying.

Qualified Senior-level applicants should have:

• Good/advanced knowledge of lighting and rendering, preferably in Houdini.
• Good/advanced knowledge of Nuke or similar node-based compositing tool (Nuke is favored.) The applicant should be able to put together and create basic Nuke composites of their own renders.
• The ability to cooperate and work within a strong team environment, possibly together with a lead and/or a supervisor.
• Having a positive attitude towards projects and colleagues.
• A flexible approach to creativity and problem solving.
• Proven track record of at least three years working in a commercial production environment in a similar role (references, etc).
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and problem solve.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Production experience with path tracing render engines.
• Look development experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a technical area such as coding/scripting/python is considered a bonus.
• Shader or renderer coding experience a plus.

Responsibilities: 
The Senior Lighting Artist is responsible for all aspects of light, render and look development in collaboration with others in the light department. Depending on the nature of the project, s/he will match real world lighting to film footage and/or create a full lighting setup for full CG films, according to brief. 

Additionally, the Senior Lighting Artist shall be responsible for:

• Keeping a schedule and meeting deadlines while meeting the quality demands of the client
• Keeping ongoing communication with Production, supervisors and fellow lighting artists regarding schedules and deadlines, as well as communicating with other department to secure assets or elements as needed to ensure work is completed on time
• Creating efficient rendering setups to optimize render times
• Other duties, including problem solving and troubleshooting, as needed

About Milford
Milford Creative Studio www.milford.se is an award-winning creative studio specializing and film and animation based in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 2001, we are a collective of artists and producers who are passionate about the potential of the combination of craft and technology to create great storytelling.

Applicants should send a letter of interest with references, CV and demo reel to opportunity@milford.se by May 13th.

Qualified applicants will be interviewed during the third week of May. A decision will be made during the last week of May.