Vahan S
Lead Lighting TD at Cinesite
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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Top SchoolVahan S is a Lead Lighting Technical Director with 11 years of VFX experience, currently leading lighting at Cinesite on high-profile features including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love and Thunder. He combines deep artistic look-dev and lighting expertise with hands-on VFX pipeline and software development skills, enabling smoother production workflows across studios like Framestore and Rising Sun Pictures. His career spans major tentpoles and commercials, from Guardians of the Galaxy to Ford vs Ferrari, showing a consistent ability to deliver cinematic lighting at scale. Based in Yerevan, Armenia, he blends creative leadership with technical problem-solving—often building tooling to bridge artist needs and production constraints.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia
English
Github Skills (60)
nuke10
rendering10
plugin10
driver10
computer-graphics10
3d-graphics9
physically-based-rendering9
exchange9
atom-plugin8
addon8
texture8
textmate8
materialx8
nodejs8
messaging7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sosoyan/trRefsUpdater
Aug 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:96 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Sosoyan/ray_tracer
May 2017 - Jun 2019
The source for the ebook Ray Tracing in One Weekend by Peter Shirley. This work is in the public domain.
Contributions:4 PRs, 179 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 1 month
ebookraypublic-domaintracingray-tracing
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