Jonathan Wai
Senior Lighting Technical Director
ILM's Senior Lighting TD On VFX Challenges, Building Hologram Lighting For Transformers One & Entering The Industry
We spoke with Jonathan Wai about the differences between animation and live-action VFX lighting, balancing artistic quality and render efficiency in feature animation, the projection-based hologram lighting workflow for Transformers One, and career advice.
Breakdown: Creating the Disco Light Effect for Lilo & Stitch
Jonathan Wai talked about the pipeline to create the disco light effect for the Lilo & Stitch live-action film, explaining how he used Nuke to create the light texture, and detailing how he animated the ball to make it look like it was spinning.
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