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 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)

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)

Look dev, Pipeline, sequence lighting & compositing lead

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

Technical Assistant

Megamind (2010)

Lighting And Compositing Artist

ModNation Racers (2010)

Digital Production Administrator

Star Trek (2009)

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