åsa svedberg

åsa svedberg

Life is all light and shadows.

Senior Lighting Artist / 22 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

Hire Me

Lighting TD

The Gorge (2025)

Senior Lighting TD

Mickey7 (2025)

Lighting Technical Director

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Lighting TD

Haunted Mansion (2023)

Visual Effects Lighting TD

Fast X (2023)

Senior Lighting Artist

Black Adam (2022)

Digital Artist

Bullet Train (2022)

Lighting Techical Director

Uncharted (2022)

Lighting Techical Director

Slumberland (2022)

Lighting TD

Dune (2021)

Lighting TD

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Lighting TD

Jungle Cruise (2021)

Mattepainter

Malibu Rescue (2019)

Mattepainter

Malibu Rescue (2019)

Digital Artist

Below (2019)

Senior Lighting TD

Black Panther (2018)

Lighter

Ready Player One (2018)

Senior Lighting TD

Bumblebee: The Movie (2018)

Lighting Artist

All I See Is You (2017)

Lighter

Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Digital Mattepainter

Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments (2016)

Senior Lighting TD

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Digital Mattepainter

HELIX (2015)

Senior Lighting TD

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

Senior Lighting TD

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)

CG Lighting Artist

Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)

Lighter

Ender's Game (2013)

Matte Painter

Neverland (2011)

3D Artist

Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

Matte Painter

Alice (2009)

Lighter

Blood Creek (2009)

Digital Artist / CG Artist

Sanctuary (2008)

Lighter

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Visual Effects

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

Lead Digital Artist

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

CG Lighting Artist

Letters from Iwo Jima (2007)

CG Lighting Artist

Transformers (2007)

CG Lighting Artist

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Additional Lighting

The Wild (2006)

Texture Painter

King Kong (2005)

Matte Painting Finalist

Darkness (2004)

Lead CG Artist

Earthsea (2004)

Digital Artist

Ella Enchanted (2004)

Digital Artist

DreamKeeper (2004)

Digital Matte Painter

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

Previsualization Artist

Johnny English (2003)

Digital Artist

Shanghai Knights (2003)

3D Animator

Die Another Day (2002)

Digital Animator

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Digital Artist

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000)
Lighting and mattepainting reel
I am an Lighting Artist with 20+ years industry experience in film and TV.
Work History

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Double Negative

    September 2020 - December 2023
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Lighter

    Double Negative

    September 2020 - December 2020

  • Mattepainter

    Animism Studios

    August 2020 - August 2020
    Remotely

  • Mattepainter

    Animism Studios

    August 2020 - August 2020

  • Lighting Artist

    Double Negative

    December 2019 - June 2020
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Lighting TD

    Double Negative

    December 2019 - February 2020
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Mattepainter

    Animism Studios

    March 2019 - April 2019
    Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Industrial Light & Magic

    September 2017 - June 2018
    Vancouver, Canada

    Senior lighting TD on Black Panther and Bumblebee

  • Lighter

    Digital Domain

    January 2017 - July 2017
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    All I see is You
    Ready Player One.

  • Mattepainter

    Folks VFX

    November 2016 - November 2016
    Montreal, Canada Area

  • Lighter

    Digital Domain

    January 2016 - July 2016
    Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Mattepainter

    Zoic Studios

    September 2015 - September 2015
    Vancouver, Canada Area

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Industrial Light & Magic

    December 2014 - March 2015
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Lucasfilm

    December 2014 - March 2015
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Industrial Light & Magic

    April 2014 - July 2014

  • Lighting Artist

    Digital Domain

    October 2011 - November 2012
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Lighter

    Digital Domain

    June 2012 - November 2012

    Enders Game

  • Lighter

    Digital Domain

    November 2011 - July 2012

    Jack the Giant Killer- lighter

  • Mattepainter

    Anthem Visual Effects

    February 2011 - July 2011

    Mattepaintings for "Neverland".

  • Senior 3D artist

    Anthem Visual Effects

    June 2009 - January 2010

    Sanctuary: Season 2
    Tucker And Dale
    Alice

  • Lighter,mattepainter and lookdev

    Helix Production

    June 2008 - June 2009

    Lead lighter and look developer on the independent feature film "HELIX".

  • Lighter

    Anthem Visual Effects

    October 2008 - December 2008

    "Sanctuary- season one" - 3D artist

  • Lighter

    Digital Domain

    October 2007 - June 2008
    Venice Beach, CA

    "The Mummy III" : lighter

  • Lighter/3d artist

    Riot Games

    June 2007 - September 2007
    Santa Monica, CA

    "Town Creek" : lighter/3D artist
    "The Dark Is Rising" : lighter/3D artist

  • Digital Domain

    March 2006 - June 2007
    Venice Beach, CA

  • Sequence lead and Lighter

    Digital Domain

    March 2006 - May 2007

    "Transformers": Lighter
    "Meet the Robinsons-3D"- stereoscopic version: Sequence lead
    "Flags Of Our Fathers" : Light Sequence lead and lighter

  • Lighter and Texture Painter

    Wētā FX

    January 2005 - November 2005
    Wellington, New Zealand

    "King Kong": Texture painter and Lighter/Shot TD.

  • Lead CGI Artist and Mattepainter

    Anthem FX

    July 2004 - December 2004
    Vancouver, Canada

    "Legend of Earthsea": Lead CGI Artist and Mattepainter

  • Lighter

    Core Feature Animation

    August 2003 - July 2004
    Toronto, Canada

    "The Wild" : Lighter.

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    C.O.R.E. Feature Animation

    September 2003 - June 2004

  • 3D Artist

    Double Negative

    August 2000 - June 2003
    London, United Kingdom

    "Ella Enchanted" : Textures, mattepainting
    "DreamKeeper" : Lead environments artist, textures, mattepainting, lighting
    "Lara Croft Tomb Raider-The Cradle of Life" :
    Digital matte painter

  • 3D Artist

    Cinesite

    March 2002 - September 2002
    London, United Kingdom

    "Shanghai Knights" : textures
    "Bond-Die Another Day" : lighting, particle effects

  • 3D Artist

    Double Negative

    August 2000 - January 2002
    London, United Kingdom

    "Johnny English" : previs artist
    "Below" : Lighter
    "Princess of Thieves" : lighting, texturing, animation
    "Randall & Hopkirk-deceased": Lighter
    "Enemy at the Gates" : modelling, textures

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Education

  • Luleå University of Technology

    1998 - 1999

  • Uppsala University

    1996 - 1998

  • Umeå university

    1995 - 1995