My side hustle, the Academy of Animated Art, helps people acquire the skills they need to become 3D lighting artists and get jobs in the animation industry. 3D lighting is the process of lighting ...

I t’s rare to find a lighting artist whose name carries weight across both the Chinese animation world and international VFX circles. But Yi Yao’s quiet, deliberate influence on films like ...

When the lighting artists started a shot, they had to interpret the animation frame beneath, and create the shape of light for each of the light passes they choose. Some of the layers were ...

All of our lighting is what we call plausible ... a boat float off on some water — all made of Lego in animation — but we had great artists who were able to work with that challenge.” ...