JJ Kim

JJ Kim

Lighting and Texturing

Senior Lighting Artist / 12 yrs

Vancouver, Canada

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Cinematic Lighting Artist

Gears 5 (2019)

Compositor

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Smallfoot (2018)

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Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)

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Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

Lighting TA

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations

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Studied Master of Digital Media in Vancouver, BC.
Expected to be graduated in August 2017.
Exceptional artistic and technical knowledge
www.kimjj.net
kjongjik@gmail.com
Work History

  • Lighting Supervisor

    Mine Creative

    June 2022 - February 2023
    Port Moody

  • Lighting Artist

    Piranha Games

    October 2020 - June 2022

  • Unreal Lighter via Agency

    Microsoft

    December 2018 - July 2020
    Vancouver, Canada

    Responsible for lighting in game

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Lighting TD

    Blue Sky Studios

    November 2015 - May 2016
    NY

    Feature Film, Ice Age 5: Collision Course
    - Responsible for Lighting, compositing, and rendering.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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Education

  • Master's degree in Digital Media

    Simon Fraser University

    November 2015 - August 2017

  • BFA, Visual Effects

    Savannah College of Art and Design

    January 2007 - March 2014