Jason Huang

Work History

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  lighting artist

  Industrial Light & Magic

  December 2022 - Present

  Burbank, California

  vfx for feature film, episodic TV, cinematics

  

  

  
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Wētā FX

  November 2021 - November 2022

  Manhattan Beach, California, United States

  
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  Senior Lighting Artist

  The Mill

  January 2021 - November 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  Learning Resource Specialist

  Epic Games

  March 2020 - November 2021

  Remote

  - creating learning content, documentation, tutorials
  - release notes media
  
  unreal engine, UE4, UE5
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  Lighting Artist | Unreal

  Mold3D Studio

  September 2020 - March 2021

  Los Angeles

  - shot lighting for "Slay" cinematic project in Unreal (partner with Epic Games)
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  Sr. LookDev/Lighting + Unreal Developer

  Digital Domain

  January 2019 - December 2019

  Los Angeles, CA
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  Senior Visualization Specialist

  Tesla

  September 2014 - December 2018

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  • taking creative briefs to create stills and animations for external/internal uses on various platforms
  • shaded, lit, comp for pre-render projects using Maya, V-Ray, and Nuke
  • implement katana as workflow architect and pipeline planning for vehicle configurator
  • Lighting calibration and material authoring

• Assistant Professor

  Lunghwa University of Sci. & Tech, Multimedia & Game Develop

  July 2013 - July 2014

  New Taipei City, Taiwan

  - teaching “Digital Lighting & Compositing”, “Mocap Animation”, and “Digital Environments”
  - creating course materials, syllabus, and presentation docs
  - leading and mentoring students capstone projects

• Lead Lighter & Look-Dev | Retrofit

  Imagescope Productions

  March 2013 - July 2014

  International

  - building and deploying sequence light-rig based on set survey
  - shading and lookdev for hard surface hero character
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  Lighter

  Shade VFX

  October 2012 - March 2013

  Santa Monica

  - shot lighting for features and commercials.
  - shot lighting for integrating characters and props into plates
  - full-body creature fur grooming and rendering
  maya, vray, nuke, shave & haircut

  

  
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  3D Artist

  3DExcite

  March 2012 - September 2012

  - developing spatially-aware HDR light-rig to localize lighting and reflection
  - vehicle lighting and compositing for hi-rez stills and animations in V-Ray and Nuke
  
  maya, vray, mental ray, nuke, PFTack, PTGui, after effects.