Karen Hulse Lighting Artist
Strengths and Interests
Setting up complex lighting scenes per shot and sequence for characters and environments. Tweaking the look development of materials and creating AOV passes to assist the comp team. I love working in a team environment, I strive to develop my current skills further and learn new skills as our industry evolves.
Work experience
Barnstorm VFX September 2022 — Present
Senior Lighting Artist Deadpool and Wolverine, One Piece, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Shogun, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Echo
Key lighter on sequences, set up complex lighting scenes
on a shot by shot basis for consistency, lighting balance
and mood, AOV creation and management, look development and
material adjustment, optimized shots for rendering to meet
deadline requirements.
Digital Domain October 2018 — September 2022
Senior Lighting Artist She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Stranger Things 4, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Avengers: End Game, Terminator: Dark Fate, Free Guy, Carnival Row, WandaVisionWorking with Maya Vray on some shows, and Maya
Redshift on others to light and render sets, props,
characters, fx elements, crowds, AOVs for the compositing
team.
Sony Imageworks March 2018 — September 2018
Senior Lighting Artist Spiderman: Into the Spider-VerseWorked with Katana and Arnold to design and implement
lighting of characters and environments that meet and
improve the specific art direction.
Finalled shots with a complex setup in Nuke to create the
comic book style.
Digital Domain October 2015 — February 2018
Lighting Artist Avengers: Infinity War, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Power Rangers, Independence Day: Resurgence, Beauty and the Beast, DeadpoolPark Road Post June 2015 — October 2015
Lighting/Compositing ArtistFargo season 3Iloura March 2015 — June 2015
Lighting ArtistTed 2Weta Digital May 2012 — November 2014
Lighting ArtistThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Iron Man 3Huhu Studios March 2011 — April 2012
Lighting and Shader TDWeta Productions January 2009 — March 2011
Generalist/LightingHuhu Studios January 2008 — October 2009
Lighting TDSoftware
Houdini, Maya, Katana, Nuke
Skills
Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Texturing/Shading
Renderers used
VRay, Arnold, Redshift, Manuka