Lighting CV

Karen Hulse Lighting Artist


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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, WandaVision
Working 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-Verse
Worked 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, Deadpool

Park Road Post June 2015 — October 2015

Lighting/Compositing ArtistFargo season 3

Iloura March 2015 — June 2015

Lighting ArtistTed 2

Weta 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 3

Huhu Studios March 2011 — April 2012

Lighting and Shader TD

Weta Productions January 2009 — March 2011

Generalist/Lighting

Huhu Studios January 2008 — October 2009

Lighting TD

Software

Houdini, Maya, Katana, Nuke

Skills

Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Texturing/Shading

Renderers used

VRay, Arnold, Redshift, Manuka