Eldar Cholich

Eldar Cholich

Lighting Artist

New York, NY, USA

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Lighting Artist

Elio (2025)

Lighting Artist

Win or Lose (2025)

Lead Lighting Artist

Nimona (2023)

Lighting Artist

Lightyear (2022)

Lighting Lead

Nimona (2022)

Lighting Lead

Ferdinand (2017)

Associate Lighting And Compositing Supervisor

Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

Lead lighting Aritst

The Peanuts Movie (2015)

Lead Lighting Artist

Rio 2 (2014)

Lead Lighting Artist

Epic (2013)

Lead Lighting Artist

Rio (2011)

Lead Lighting Technical Director

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010)

Digital Compositor / Digital Lighting

Delgo (2008)

Lighting Artist / Technical Director

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

Work History
  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Pixar

    August 2021 - Present
  • Lead Lighting Artist

    Blue Sky Studios

    November 2008 - August 2021

    Lighting lead on projects:

    Nimona (2023)
    Spies in Disguise (2019)
    Ferdinand (2017)
    Ice Age 5 (2016)
    Peanuts (2015)
    Rio 2 (2014)
    Epic (2013)
    Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (2012)
    Rio (2011)
    Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Blue Sky Studios

    June 2007 - November 2008

    Lighting and compositing on projects:

    Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
    Horton Hears a Who (2008)

  • Lighting Artist / Technical Director

    Blue Sky Studios

    September 2005 - June 2007

    Lighting and compositing on projects:

    No Time for Nuts (2007)
    Ice Age the Meltdown (2006)

Education
  • Bachelor in Media Arts and Animation

    Art Institute of Atlanta

    January 1998 - February 2002