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Senior Lighting TD / Lead Lighting Artist

Soumava Das

Extensive world-class lighting across complex VFX production, from live-action integration and creature work to fully CG worlds in varied visual styles, ranging from stylized to hyper-realistic invented or real-world characters, props, creatures, set extensions, and Earth-bound or extra-terrestrial elements and environments, with consistent sequence-scale visual continuity at the center.

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About / Credibility

Feature-film and episodic lighting for complex VFX production.

He has spent much of his career inside the less visible machinery of VFX: heavy shot counts, difficult renders, fragile workflows, plate-matching problems, continuity across sequences, and delivery schedules that leave little room for drift. His work is not only about making a frame look good in isolation, but about keeping the lighting language coherent across shots, reviews, versions, and production realities.

Across Rhythm & Hues, MPC, and Framestore, his credits include Academy Award-winning visual effects work on Life of Pi and The Jungle Book, alongside productions that demanded creature interaction, storm and environment work, set extensions, vehicle lighting, crowd continuity, fully CG worlds, stereo delivery, and large-scale sequence consistency. The throughline is not only the scale of the films, but the kind of production trust they required: lighting that could hold up under close review, survive iteration, support story, and remain technically reliable across complex shot pipelines.

Pipeline

Lighting, look development, render optimization, and production problem-solving.

Lighting systems for shots, sequences, and the realities between them.

Production lighting rarely ends at a single beautiful frame. It has to survive plate variation, asset changes, render constraints, comp needs, supervisor notes, and the accumulated pressure of a moving schedule.

Soumava’s pipeline experience sits in that practical middle ground: building lighting setups that artists can understand, maintaining consistency across sequences, preparing render passes that comp can actually use, diagnosing slow or unstable renders, and turning one-off fixes into repeatable production habits.

The tools matter, but the deeper skill is knowing when the problem is artistic, technical, structural, or simply a workflow that has not been made clear enough yet.

Lighting / Lookdev / DCC

  • Katana
  • Maya
  • Houdini
  • Blender
  • 3ds Max
  • Unreal Engine 5

Rendering

  • RenderMan
  • Arnold
  • V-Ray
  • Karma

Comp / Edit / Finishing

  • Nuke
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Lightroom

Teamwork / Leadership

Mentoring, documentation, communication, and peaceful execution under pressure.

Leadership through clarity, steadiness, and practical production memory.

Soumava’s leadership style is built around reducing friction. On difficult shows, that often means making the path easier for other artists: explaining setups, documenting traps, catching problems before they spread, and helping teams understand why a workflow exists instead of only telling them what buttons to press.

He has mentored and onboarded artists inside active production environments, where there is rarely enough time for ideal training. His approach is practical: make the work understandable, make mistakes less repeatable, and keep pressure from turning into confusion. His documentation-first approach turns discovered problems into reusable guidance, covering workflow setup, render behavior, review preparation, and production-specific troubleshooting.

Supervisors have recognized him for resourceful problem-solving, clear communication, pipeline awareness, and calm leadership under challenging production conditions. When tools, handoffs, or support systems are incomplete, he looks for workable solutions without turning the problem into someone else’s emergency. That kind of leadership is not about volume or authority. It is about keeping the work moving while protecting the quality of the image and the people around it.

Honors / Awards

Award-recognized work across landmark feature and episodic productions.

Soumava’s filmography includes work on productions recognized by the Academy Awards, BAFTA, the Visual Effects Society, and the Sports Emmys. These honors belong to the productions and teams behind them; their presence here reflects the level of work, review, and delivery environment these projects demanded.

From Life of Pi and The Jungle Book to Top Gun: Maverick, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Portal, the common thread is high-scrutiny visual effects: creature work, integration, scale, continuity, and images that had to hold up at the level of major feature and episodic release.

  • Life of Pi Academy Award, BAFTA, and VES winning visual effects production.
  • The Jungle Book Academy Award, BAFTA, and VES winning visual effects production.
  • Top Gun: Maverick Academy Award, BAFTA, and VES nominated visual effects production.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Academy Award nominated visual effects production.
  • The Portal Sports Emmy Award-winning episodic animation production.

Filmography

Feature & Episodic Production Credits.

Selected feature and episodic production credits.

This filmography spans theatrical features, streaming work, animation, creature shows, live-action integration, set-extension work, vehicles, crowds, storms, stylized worlds, and fully CG production.

The list is not presented as a catalogue of titles alone. It is a record of different production demands: stereo work, plate matching, sequence continuity, character interaction, large-scale environments, animated performance, and the kind of shot execution that sits behind finished images audiences rarely think about once the illusion works.

IMDb
  1. Poster for Top Gun: Maverick Top Gun: Maverick
  2. Poster for Godzilla vs. Kong Godzilla vs. Kong
  3. Poster for Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl
  4. Poster for Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog
  5. Poster for Shazam! Shazam!
  6. Poster for Dumbo Dumbo
  7. Poster for The Predator The Predator
  8. Poster for The Dark Tower The Dark Tower
  9. Poster for Ghost in the Shell Ghost in the Shell
  10. Poster for Monster Trucks Monster Trucks
  11. Poster for Passengers Passengers
  12. Poster for Ghostbusters Ghostbusters
  13. Poster for X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Apocalypse
  14. Poster for The Jungle Book The Jungle Book
  15. Poster for Furious Seven Furious Seven
  16. Poster for Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
  17. Poster for Exodus: Gods and Kings Exodus: Gods and Kings
  18. Poster for Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy
  19. Poster for Life of Pi Life of Pi
  20. Poster for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
  21. Poster for Hop Hop
  22. Poster for Yogi Bear Yogi Bear
  23. Poster for Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
  24. Poster for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
  25. Poster for The Portal The Portal
  26. Poster for Ted Ted

Reel

Feature lighting reel.

This reel presents a representative cross-section of Soumava’s lighting work across live-action integration, fully CG animation, creature interaction, stylized worlds, and large-scale VFX production. It is not a complete catalogue, nor a simple “best shots” compilation. The body of work is far larger than a reel can reasonably hold; this selection is intended to show range, production context, and the different kinds of visual problems carried across shots and sequences.

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