Lighting, Look Dev, Compositor and Generalist
CV
Career and Educational History
Realtime Lighting and Compositing Artist
WildChild Animation - Realtime Lighting and Comp artist working in Unreal Engine 5 and Resolve for an upcoming children's TV show. Developing interactive master lighting using blueprints and shot based lighting in a multishot workflow, I also had a hand in developing the compositing template and learning material. I was able to balance optimization, quality and speed across the project working concurrently with others in the same project file.
Nov 2024 - Sept 2025
Lighting TD
Cinesite - Lighting Technical Director working in Gaffer and Houdini. I worked in lighting on Apples' upcoming feature film ’The Lost Bus’ handling a variety of scenes involving expansive VDB'd, fire simulations, expansive foliage, full CG, plate integration etc.
Sept 2024 - Nov 2024
Lighting and Comp Artist
Jellyfish Pictures - Houdini generalist with an emphasis on look development, lighting and compositing. Working on several episodes on a children's TV shorts show ‘Ranger Buddies’ for international clients. I worked closely with the supervisor to deliver stylised lighting, whilst also working on the vegetation layout, lookdev and various technical aspects to deliver the project to completion.
March 2024 - Sept 2024
CG Generalist
Aardman - Houdini generalist with an emphasis on look development, lighting and compositing. Working on several episodes on a children's TV shorts show ‘Ranger Buddies’ for international clients. I worked closely with the supervisor to deliver stylised lighting, whilst also working on the vegetation layout, lookdev and various technical aspects to deliver the project to completion.
Jan 2024 - March 2024
Lighting TD
Cinesite - Lighting Technical Director working in Gaffer and Houdini. I worked in lighting on Netflix’s feature film ’The Union’ on several key shots depicting action sequences, face replacements, plate integration and object integration. I also worked on the penultimate episode of ‘Nautilus’ for Disney; integrating many effects, such as fire, explosions, water simulation and more. I was also involved in the layout of a detailed fully CG depiction of Victorian London that is included in many of my lighting shots.
Dec 2022 - Sept 2023
Lead Lighter and generalist
Doodle Productions LTD - Generalist, lighting and look development artist for the CBeebies children's show ‘Messy goes to OKIDO’. I was in charge of recreating all lookdevs from Vray set ups to Arnold node set ups, as well as many new look devs and creating the main character’s fur systems in Yeti. I also set up master lighting rigs and trained other co-workers on the software.
June 2021 - Dec 2022
Freelance Storyboard Artist
Naiad Productions LTD - Naiad Productions LTD - I created several storyboards for two undisclosed short films and a published music video (SYREN). I also created several pieces of key art for the short films.
Aug 2019 - Sept 2020
BA (Hons) Computer Animation Art and Design
Sept 2017 - Sept 2020
Bournemouth University - As a graduate student of the National Center for Computer Animation I learnt a lot about the industry, the pipeline, and how to make a great cup of tea during my years here.