Quay Mims

Quay Mims

Lead Lighting Artist (Scanline VFX) / 15 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Lead Lighter

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley (2024)

Lead Lighter

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)

Lighter

Rebel Moon (2023)

Lighting Artist

Black Adam (2022)

Shadow and bone (2021)

Visual Effects Artist

Deadly Class (2018)

Visual Effects Artist

Lost in Space (2018)

Lighting Artist

The fate of the furious (2017)

Visual Effects Artist

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Visual Effects

The Exorcist (2016)

The Tick (2016)

Visual Effects Artist

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

Lighting Technical Director

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Visual Effects Artist

Allegiant (2016)

Lighting TD

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Visual Effects Artist

Zoo (2015)

Lighting / Compositing

The Book of Life (2014)

Visual Effects

Scorpion (2014)

Lighting

Rio 2 (2014)

Visual Effects

Butcher'd Meats (2012)

The Magicians (2011)

Lighting Team

DreamGiver (2011)

I have a wide variety of skill sets and experience within the film/gaming industry, spanning from artist to leadership. I'm continually researching new and inventive ways that helps push production capabilities. I love what I do, and that is creating captivating visuals.
Work History

  • Lighting Lead

    ScanlineVFX

    March 2022 - March 2024

  • Lighting / Compositing Lead (cinematics)

    Blackbird Interactive Inc

    January 2018 - February 2022
    400-565 Great Northern Way Vancouver, BC V5T 0H8

    • Established initial Lighting / Look Dev production pipeline for cinematics
    • Scripted multiple production tools
    • R&D visual styles for cinematics
    • Created Light Rigs and Key Lighting
    • Look Dev assets

  • CG Generalist

    FuseFX

    May 2017 - January 2018
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    • Worked on multiple VFX Television Shows
    • Responsibilities: Lighting, Look Dev, Texturing, Modeling
    • Developed/Scripted tools for pipeline
    • Created concept images for show bids

  • Lead Lighting / Compositing Artist

    ICON Creative Studio

    April 2017 - May 2017
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    • Lit on a Netflix Original series

  • Lighting Artist

    Digital Domain

    March 2016 - February 2017
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    • Fast and Furious 8
    • Beauty and the Beast
    • Independence Day: Resurgence
    • Look Dev
    • Optimized Renders

  • Lighting Technical Director

    Method Studios

    August 2015 - March 2016
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    • Lit in Houdini on Captain America: Civil War
    • Look Dev and Lit on The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    • Optimized Renders

  • Lighting Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    February 2015 - July 2015
    Vancouver, Canada

    • Lit and Composited on Hotel Transylvania 2
    • Rendered shots
    • Adjusted textures

  • Lighter / Compositor

    Reel FX

    March 2014 - August 2014

    * Lit and Composited on The Book of Life
    * Fixed render issues, textures and effects for my shots
    * Optimized render times

  • Modeling / Look Dev

    Case NYC

    January 2013 - January 2013
    Utah

    • Modeled new Clinique product for commercials
    • Created displacement / bump maps

  • Lighting

    Blue Sky Studios

    December 2013 - January 2014

    * Created render layers for Lighting and Compositing on Rio 2
    * Wrote a Python script that automates the beginning process for LTAs

  • Lighting / Compositing

    Laika

    June 2013 - August 2013
    Portland, OR

    • Lit and Composited on commercials

  • Lighting / Compositing Lead

    QVC Commercial

    May 2013 - August 2013

    • Lit in Houdini and Composited in AE
    • Shaded the main medical device

  • Lighting / Compositing

    Chasm - Animated Short Film

    January 2012 - April 2013
    Utah

    • Oversaw lighting in Houdini and compositing in Nuke
    • Built light rigs
    • Developed scripts and gizmos for Nuke

  • Research Assistant

    Brigham Young University

    August 2012 - March 2013
    Utah

    • Taught students how to light and composite
    • Developed lighting / compositing pipeline

  • Lighting TD

    LDS Motion Picture Studio

    February 2013 - February 2013

    • Lit and Composited realistic architecture
    • Rendered with Mental Ray

  • iLearning

    iLearning

    October 2011 - August 2012
    Utah

    • Created and Composited 3D / 2D elements into live footage
    • Edited video for timing and color correction

  • Lighting TD

    Estefan, Butchered Meats and Dreamgiver - Animated Short Fil

    April 2010 - August 2012

    • Lit in Maya and Houdini
    • Rendered with RenderMan and Mantra
    • Composited with AE and Nuke

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Education

  • BFA Animation

    Brigham Young University

    January 2008 - January 2013