Navjit Gill

Navjit Gill

Senior Lead Lighter

Lead Lighting Artist / Technical Director / 15 yrs

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Lighting Artist

Blue Beetle (2023)

Lead Compositing Artist

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Visual Effects Artist

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Lead Lighting & Compositing Artist

The Sea Beast (2022)

Lead Lighting And Compositing

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)

Lead Lighting And Compositing Artist

Vivo (2021)

Lead Lighting And Compositing

Over the Moon (2020)

Digital Artist

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

Lead Lighting And Compositing Artist

Hotel Transylvania 3 (2018)

Senior Lighting And Compositing Artist

The Emoji Movie (2017)

Senior Lighting And Compositing Artist

Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)

Senior Lighting And Compositing Artist

Storks (2016)

Senior Lighting And Compositing Artist

The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Lighter

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

Look dev, Pipeline, sequence lighting & compositing lead

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Megamind: The Button of Doom (2011)

Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)

Puss in Boots (2011)

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Technical Assistant

Megamind (2010)

TRON: Legacy (2010)

Lighting And Compositing Artist

ModNation Racers (2010)

Gran Torino (2009)

Digital Production Administrator

Star Trek (2009)

Technical Assistant

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

We Own the Night (2007)

Transformers (2007)

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

Look dev, sq lighting & compositing lead

B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations

Work History

  • Lighting Artist

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    July 2020 - Present

  • Lead Lighting Artist

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    June 2015 - May 2020
    Vancouver, Canada

  • Sr. Technical Director; Light & Color

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    November 2017 - June 2018

  • Sr. Technical Director; Light & Color

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    June 2015 - June 2017

  • Lead Lighter

    DreamWorks Animation

    December 2012 - April 2015

    B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations
    Penguins of Madagascar
    How to Train Your Dragon 2
    Mr. Peabody & Sherman
    - Creating sequence wide lighting rigs/comps tailored to sequence
    - Finding solutions to shot complexity/challenges e.g crowds, complex enviroments/chars...
    - Optimizing renders/workflows
    - Establish the look based on key art, reference and working closely with CG supervisor, VFX supervisor and production Designer
    - Get sequence to 50% lighting, final key shots
    - Providing support to production lighters that come in at 50%

  • Render TD

    Digital Domain

    January 2007 - May 2009

    TRON: Legacy
    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Star Trek
    SEVERAL COMMERCIALS
    Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Gran Torino
    The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
    Transformers
    We Own The Night
    Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
    - Regularly assessing show's need for render-cpus/disk storage/software licenses
    - Supervise show's render wranglers
    - TD support to artists
    - Writing tools for production and artists
    - Optimizing workflow and pipeline

  • System Engineer

    The Walt Disney Company

    August 2006 - January 2007
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