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LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdavis234

Contact: jdavis234@gmail.com

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Lighting and Compositing Artist
Walt Disney Animation Studios


04/2019 - 09/2023, 06/2025 - 10/2025, 08/2026 - current
Burbank, CA & Remote

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  • Key lighting, shot lighting, and compositing on six feature films, two limited series, and two short films.

  • Collaborated with supervisors and the director of photography to establish lighting setups.

  • Key lighter on Encanto, and Raya and the Last Dragon.

  • Created Nuke compositing templates for artists.

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AI / VFX Technical Artist

Meta via Insight Global

 

11/2025 - 8/2026    Remote

 

Creating visual effects solutions for Meta Research using a combination of CGI and AI tools.

As group lead, scheduled meetings, gave notes, assisted artists with shot work.

 

Senior Lighting Technical Director
Sony Pictures Imageworks


01/2018 - 12/2018
Vancouver, BC

 

  • Shot lighting, compositing, motion graphics, and stereoscopic for the feature film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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Lighting Technical Director
Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox


09/2005 - 12/2017
Greenwich, CT

 

  • Shot lighting and compositing on nine feature animated films and three short films.

  • Worked with leads to establish master lighting scripts.

  • Worked with art directors, creating lighting for early character development.

  • Created 3D sets in Layout and Assembly.

  • Assisted with the creation of groomed/furred characters.

  • Developed training documentation and courses for new lighting hires.


Professional Skills


3D

Maya, Nuke, Katana, Unreal Engine 5, Unity, Houdini, Embergen


2D

After Effects, Premiere Pro, Adobe Creative Suite, Substance Painter

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Rendering

Arnold, V-ray

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AI

Comfy, Tripo, Mixamo, Beeble

 

Hardware
Linux, Unix, Windows

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Foundational

Color Theory, Drawing, Painting, Photography

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Education


Savannah College of Art & Design


Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Arts

Portfolio scholarship. Co-producer and lighter for a Student Academy Award-nominated short film.

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Filmography

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Walt Disney Animation Studios: Wish, Encanto, Raya and the Last Dragon, Strange World, Frozen 2, Zootopia 2, Baymax!, Short Circuit

Sony Pictures Imageworks: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

20th Century Fox: Ferdinand, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ice Age: Collision Course, Rio, The Peanuts Movie, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio 2, Horton Hears a Who!, Epic, Ice Age: The Meltdown

Fathom Studios: Delgo

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