Kai Wang

Kai Wang

Lead Realtime Lighting TD / 15 yrs

Los Angleles

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Effects Artist

Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

Additional Lighting / Lighting Technical Director

Baymax Dreams (2018)

Pipeline Technical Assistant

The Shimajiro Movie: Shimajiro in Bookland (2017)

Senior Lighting Artist

Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order (2019)

Senior Lighting Artist

Destiny 2 (2017)

Lighting TD

Storks (2016)

Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)

PA Lottery Hockey (2016)

Macy Holiday 2016 (2016)

Home (2015)

Lighting Technical Assistant

Almost Home (2019)

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Turbo (2009)

Good Books - Metamorphosis (2013)

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Visual Effects Artist

Why Planes Crash: Human Error (2010)

MTV CHAMELEON

Work History

  • Lead Lighting Artist

    Deviation Games

    January 2022 - Present
    Santa Monica, California, United States

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Deviation Games

    January 2021 - December 2021
    Santa Monica, California, United States

  • Realtime Lighting Technical Director

    Disney Television Animation

    September 2019 - December 2020
    Los Angeles

    Working closely with Unity Technologies to develop and test next gen lighting pipeline for Disney Television Animation.

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Respawn Entertainment

    May 2019 - September 2019
    Los Angleles

    In-game and cinematic real time lighting design with Unreal Engine 4 on Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order.

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    Vicarious Visions

    November 2017 - November 2018
    Albany, NY

    In-game and cinematic lighting design for Destiny 2

  • Senior Lighting Artist

    The Mill

    October 2017 - November 2017
    Chicago, IL

    Lighting and Look Dev on Dr. Scholl's .
    Look Dev on Cox Communications.

  • Lighting/Look dev

    Psyop

    July 2017 - September 2017
    New York

    IMB Cloud

  • Senior Lighter

    MPC

    April 2017 - April 2017
    New York

    Look Dev/Lighting

  • Senior Lighter

    MPC

    September 2016 - December 2016

  • Lighting Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    November 2015 - August 2016
    Vancouver, Canada

    Storks

  • Lighting Technical Assistant

    DreamWorks Animation

    February 2012 - March 2015

    Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
    Home (2015)
    The Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
    Almost Home (2014)
    Turbo (2013)
    Rise of the Guardians (2012)

  • 3D Generalist (Apprenticeship)

    Buck

    July 2011 - February 2012

    MTV - CHAMELEON: Modeling, Animation, Look Dev and Lighting.
    Cartoon Network Pitch: Modeling
    Google - Android: Modeling
    Good Books - Metamorphosis: Modeling, Look Dev, Lighting and Rendering
    Target Holiday 2011: Lighitng and Texturing

  • 3D Generalist (Intern)

    Mechanism Digital

    June 2010 - August 2010

    MSNBC TV production - Why Planes Crash 3: modeling, texture painting and lighting.

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Education

  • Visual Effects/Technical Direction

    Savannah College of Art and Design

    January 2007 - June 2011