John Ray

Lead Lighting Technical Director and Senior CG Generalist 

Experience

1. One Of Us (Sep 2024 - April 2025) Senior Lighting TD. I worked across multiple projects providing lighting setups and technical support for CG assets and scenes, developing tools and pipelines to work with new software.

2. Jellyfish Pictures (June 2024 - Sep 2024) - Lead Lighting and Comp Artist. On completing probation, I was appointed to a lead position, managing a team of 13+ mixed lighters and compositors, to deliver an animated feature film to demanding deadlines.

3. Jellyfish Pictures (Feb 2024 - June 2024) - Senior Lighting / Comp TD. I worked on an animated feature film, using Karma and USD, developing my skills in Nuke to both light and composite shots. 

4. One Of Us (March 2021 - Feb 2024) - CG Generalist / Lead Lighting TD: I worked across a wide range of CG departments, including as a Lead Lighter, FX, Environments, Staging, Layout, and Lookdev.

5. Framestore (Feb 2018 - March 2021) - Lighting TD: I worked in the lighting team and was responsible for lighting CG characters and props for use in feature films. 

6. Framestore (March 2016 - Feb 2018) - Assistant TD: I worked in a small team responsible for developing tools and fixes for all projects, maintaining functionality and improving work flows for artists and production. Specific responsibilities included facial solving development and coaching more junior members of staff. 

7. Framestore (October 2010 - March 2016) - I worked in a range of roles across the business, including: 

• a. Staging Technical Director

• b. Junior Crowd Technical Director

• c. FX Technical Director

• d. Render Support Technician,

• e. Junior Systems Support/ Systems Runner.

 

Proficient software 

Maya, Houdini, USD/Karma, Nuke, Mari, Substance, Golaem. Dynamixyz. 

Education / Qualification 

Arts Institute at Bournemouth (2006-2009): Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Animation Production. 

Arts Institute at Bournemouth (2008-2009): ABC Level 3 Award in Pixel Based Image Manipulation. 

Arts Institute at Bournemouth (2005-2006): Foundation degree Course in Art, Design and Media. 

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Skills

Lighting

Compositing 

AI Learning 

Facial solving 

Crowd simulation Effects 

Tool Development 

Compositing 

Design 

Storyboarding 

Animation 

 

Coding Languages 

Python, Mel, Vex and PyTorch

 

Recent Filmography

Wheel of Time, Season 3

Dog Man

Damsel

Napoleon

Bridgerton, Season 2

Man Who Fell to Earth

Witcher, Season 2 

Locke & Key, Season 2

His Dark Materials, Seasons 1 & 2

Avengers Endgame

The King’s Man

Pokemon Detective Pikachu

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