Ben Sarlo

Ben Sarlo

Supervisor Lighter/Compositor / 10 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Thistle One (2017)

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Elena of Avalor (2016)
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Elena of Avalor
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Lighting & Compositing Reel - Jan 2017
Lighting and Compositing Artist with a balanced eye for cinematic lighting. Professional, creative, and flexible with success in developing sequences from lighting design through to final composition and thrilled at the challenges that come in between. Experienced in TV Animated Production with proven ability to craft high-end imagery under tight deadlines.
Work History

  • Lead Lighting & Compositing Artist

    ICON Creative Studio

    October 2017 - December 2018
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Elena of Avalor Seasons 1-3

    Developing sequence master lighting, environment lighting, helping team overcome challenges, and documenting technical workflows. Simultaneously maintaining full shot workload.

  • Lighting & Compositing Supervisor

    ICON Creative Studio

    January 2019 - April 2021
    Vancouver, Canada Area

    Disney+ - Monsters at Work

    Developing lighting workflow to uphold high quality IP with TV schedule and pipeline. Identifying solutions to any bottlenecks and working with TDs to suggest and implement new tools and processes.
    Building light rigs, comp templates, and setting up show-wide light and comp workflows. Optimizing renders and troubleshooting team wide technical issues.

  • Head of Lighting

    ICON Creative Studio

    April 2021 - Present

  • Lighting & Compositing Artist

    ICON Creative Studio

    May 2016 - September 2017

    • Shot ownership from lighting to final Compositing delivery for Disney's full CG Production - Elena of Avalor

    • Development of environment light rigs for production with the goal of balancing artistic intention and optimizing render times for all artists

    • Implementing different look development workflows within the studio to maintain consistency across a variety of shows and styles

  • Lighting & Compositing Artist

    Artella

    November 2016 - July 2018

  • Lighting & Compositing Artist

    Animation Mentor

    September 2015 - February 2016

    • Contributed remotely with a team of artists to light, render, and composite assigned shots.
    • Communicated with Lighting Supervisor and Director/Producer to achieve style goals and address notes through weeklies.
    • Corrected technical issues in rendering pipeline to fit within limitations of rendering locally
    • Pipeline ran Renderman and Nuke

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Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in 3D Graphics and Digital AnimationBachelor’s Degre

    University of Colorado Denver

    2012 - 2016