JJ Kim

Work History

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  Lighting

  Freelancer

  March 2023 - November 2024

  Unreal Engine 4 and 5
  Canada

  

• Lighting Supervisor

  Mine Creative

  June 2022 - February 2023

  Port Moody
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  Lighting Artist

  Piranha Games

  October 2020 - June 2022
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  Unreal Lighter via Agency

  Microsoft

  December 2018 - July 2020

  Vancouver, Canada

  Responsible for lighting in game
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  Lighting Technical Director

  Sony Pictures Imageworks

  January 2018 - November 2018

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  shot lighting, compositing, qc and 3d stereo.

  

• 3D Artist

  University of Victoria

  October 2017 - December 2017

  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Worked on VR
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  Graduate Student until August 2017.

  Simon Fraser University

  September 2016 - August 2017

  Vancouver, Canada

  Getting Master of Digital Media at Centre for Digital Media (UBC, SFU, BCIT, and EMILY CARR).
  Focusing on studying new digital technology.
  
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  Lighting TD

  Blue Sky Studios

  November 2015 - May 2016

  NY

  Feature Film, Ice Age 5: Collision Course
  - Responsible for Lighting, compositing, and rendering.
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  3D Creative Technical Lead

  Schawk!

  March 2015 - October 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Produced high quality of 3D Rendering images for marketing.
  Provided 3D pipeline as well as R&D.
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  Lighting TA

  DreamWorks Animation

  May 2014 - February 2015

  Redwood City, CA

  Responsible for technical supports and set up sequences.
  - Worked on lighting shots (Compositing and Rendering).
  - Identified issues on other departments and requested revisions.
  - Provided a script to assemble rendered images for checking lighting templates, so able to identified issues.