LIGHTING-COMPOSITING ARTIST

About us!

At Sourcing Unicorns, we recruit globally across the creative and experiential industry, always on the lookout for exceptional talent to bring bold ideas to life. For this opportunity, we’re proud to collaborate with the team at SHED to find the unicorn — the one who will truly make a difference. Together, we ensure a smooth and human-centered hiring experience that reflects the studio’s vision.

SHED - Studio 3D

SHED is a design, animation and post-production studio located in Montreal, with over 20 years of experience. Their work is to breathe life into brands, thanks to captivating narratives and powerful visuals.

Your mission

Temporary contract position - From End of July 2025

As a lighting/comp artist, you create rich and refined visual environments. You also create lighting that enhances the characters and settings of our animation, vfx or print projects.

Your Responsibilities

• Interpret concept art, mood boards, references or color keys;

• Assemble, update and light 3D scenes;

• Visually integrate VFX elements into filmed images (when necessary);

• Launch and optimize renderings;

• Ensure image quality; 

• Maintain continuity from one shot to the next;

• Arrange different image sources in compositing scripts;

• Assemble visuals and audio from 3D animation commercials into an edit (as needed);

• Prepare presentation elements for validations;

• Provide supervisors and producers with progress reports (as needed).

Your Journey

• A degree in a 3D animation program;

• Experience in 3D lighting and compositing;

• Experience in film, advertising, television;

• Experience with fully 3D projects (asset);

• In-depth knowledge of post-production techniques;

• Knowledge of Python (asset);

• Knowledge of Shotgrid (asset);

• Knowledge of Solaris and USD (asset);

• A comfort level with the Linux / Unix environment (asset).

Your Tools

• Houdini (Solaris), for lighting

• Redshift and Deadline, for rendering

• Nuke, for compositing

• Hiero or NukeStudio for editing.

Environment, Values, And Working Conditions

You will be part of a small group of lighting and compositing specialists. Depending on the project, you will either take full responsibility for these tasks or share them with your colleagues located around the world. You wll also work with a group of 5 to 30 3D artists depending on the scale of the production.

We believe in a healthy work environment where commitment, mutual aid and direct communication between artists are valued. Whether you want to advance within your discipline or take on new challenges, you'll find the right playground at SHED.

Work-life balance is a key concern for us as an employer, therefore we offer the flexibility of hybrid work and group health insurance.