Douglas Yoshida

Douglas Yoshida

Experienced 3d Lighter/Lookdev for Hire!

Lead Lead Lookdev TD / 21 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

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Lookdev Artist

The Electric State (2025)

Look Development Lead

Agatha: Darkhold Diaries (2024)

Lead Lookdev Artist

Ahsoka (2023)

Lookdev Lead

Extraction 2 (2023)

Lookdev Lead

Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (2022)

Digital Artist / Lookdev Lead

Stranger Things (2016)

Lighter

Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

Senior Technical Director

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Visual Effects Technical Director

Cast Away (2000)

Effects Animator

Hollow Man (2000)

Black Panther (2018)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

The fate of the furious (2017)

Sr. Lighting Technical Director

The Angry Birds Movie (2016)

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Sr. Lighting Technical Director

Storks (2016)

Lighter

Home (2015)

Lighter

Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Lighter

Turbo (2009)

Lighter

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

Lighter

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Lighter

Puss in Boots (2011)

Lighter

Megamind (2010)

Lighter

Shrek Forever After (2010)

Lighter

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

Beowulf (2007)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Senior Lighting/Look Development

Surf's Up (2007)

Senior Lighting/Look Development Environments

Open Season (2006)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

The Polar Express (2004)

Senior Lighter

Shrek 2 (2004)

Lighting/Look Development

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

Lighting/Look Development

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Cloth Lead

Stuart Little 2 (2002)

Senior Lighting Technical Director

Cast Away (2000)

Effects Animator

Hollow Man (2000)

Cloth Technical Director

Stuart Little (1999)

Lighting

Godzilla (1998)

Technical Assistant

The Replacement Killers (1998)

Lead Technical Assistant

Contact (2018)

Technical Assistant

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
I am looking for a lighting/lookdev position that will utilize my skills in lighting, compositing and look development. I have over 20 years of artist experience at major studios which includes expertise in lighting, compositing, look development, cloth, hair, and fx. I also have lead experience and am well versed in Katana, Maya, Houdini/Solaris, Nuke, Arnold, Renderman, and Vray.
Work History

  • Senior Lighting Technical Director

    Method Studios

    July 2024 - Present

    CG lighting on an NDA project

  • Lead Look Development

    Digital Domain

    October 2021 - February 2023
    Los Angeles, CA

  • Lead Lighting and Compositing Technical Director (on-site at Apple)

    Hogarth Worldwide

    July 2017 - September 2020
    Cupertino, California

    Lighting and compositing of products for Apple's website and product packaging including iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac Pro, AirPods Max and AirPods Pro. Acted as a liaison between lighting and the tech team to test, R&D, and document new lighting workflows/pipeline and tools. Performed some scripting in Python and MEL to automate processes.

  • Lead Lighting Technical Director

    Apple Inc.

    July 2017 - April 2018

  • Senior Lighting TD

    Luma Pictures

    March 2017 - July 2017

  • lighting/lookdev td

    Digital Domain

    September 2016 - March 2017

  • Sr. Lighting Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    March 2015 - August 2016
    Culver City, CA

  • Senior Lighter

    DreamWorks Animation

    March 2008 - March 2015
    Glendale, CA

  • Senior Lighting Technical Director

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    May 2004 - September 2007
    Culver City, CA

    Senior lighter on Polar Express... Then look development of environments for Open Season... Surf's Up had an interesting look since it was shot in a documentary style. I was given the task to light the title shot as well as many wave and underwater shots... Beowulf was a challenge in that we were lighting photorealistic cg humans...

  • Senior Lighter

    DreamWorks Animation

    November 2003 - April 2004
    Redwood City, CA

    Went over to PDI as a production lighter on Shrek 2. Worked on the shots in Fiona's bedroom and the Prison Break sequence.

  • ESC Entertainment

    July 2002 - October 2003
    Alameda, CA

    Worked on lighting, look development and crowd look dev on Matrix Reloaded and the Siege, a

  • Sony Pictures Imageworks

    May 1996 - July 2002
    Culver City, CA

    Ran cloth simulations on Stuart Little and was a cloth lead on Stuart Little 2. Lead a team in the creation of cg costumes and the finaling of dynamic cloth in production shots. Also lit shots on

  • Silicon Graphics

    July 1995 - April 1996
    Santa Monica, CA
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Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles

    1987 - 1992