About
Highly skilled and experienced lighting artist with a focus on real-time lighting for interactive entertainment. Adept in lighting environments and cinematic sequences.
Able to set up lighting foundations, develop pipelines/standards, create development utilities and lighting systems, as well as guide engineers to create great lighting tools.
Comfortable leading small teams through mentoring, planning, documentation, reviews, leveling guidelines, cross discipline initiatives, etc.
Additional information and work examples available: https://aubreypullman.com/
Skills
Software proficiency
Productions
- Video GameHogwarts Legacy
- Year2023
- RoleAdvanced Lighting Artist
- CompanyWarner Media
- Video GameVampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 (not yet released)
- Year2021
- RoleLead Lighting Artist
- CompanyHardsuit Labs
- Video GameThe Grand Tour Game
- Year2019
- RoleSenior Lighting Artist
- CompanyAmazon
- Video GameBreakaway
- Year2018
- RoleLighting Artist
- CompanyAmazon
- Video GameRise of the Tomb Raider
- Year2015
- RoleLighting Artist
- CompanyCrystal Dynamics
- Video GameDestiny
- Year2014
- RoleLighting Artist
- CompanyBungie
- Video GameCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Year2012
- RoleEnvironment Artist
- CompanyHidden Path Entertainment
- Video GameForza Motorsport 3
- Year2009
- RoleLighting Artist
- CompanyMicrosoft
- Video GameForza Motorsport 2
- Year2007
- RoleEnvironment Artist
- CompanyMicrosoft
- Video GameForza Motorsport
- Year2005
- RoleEnvironment Artist
- CompanyMicrosoft
- Video GameGabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
- Year1999
- RoleLead Environment Artist
- CompanySierra Online
Experience
Lighting Director on Project Rene for Maxis.
Light cinematics for Hogwarts Legacy
Work closely with engineers to create a robust, usable cinematic lighting toolset
Mentor/train other lighting artists
Document cinematic lighting pipelineMentor and train lighting artists.
Establish lighting design consistent with project art direction and game goals.
Develop systems to make lighting design easier and faster.
Establish best working practices for lighters.
Manage tasking and scheduling for lighters.
Produce and refine lighting designs for game levels.
Develop real-time lighting optimization strategies and techniques.
Work across all departments to make sure lighting is supporting them and is supported by them.Lighting foundation for AAA PC games
Cinematic event scripting
Game and cinematic lighting production
Engine QA, lighting/cine feature designCinematic lighting for Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Created environment lighting for Destiny, focusing on PvP arenas.
Participated in daily play tests and leveraged feedback to refine PvP lighting design.
Helped design environment lighting process and provided feedback on lighting tools.Environment lighting, tone mapping and color correction.
Modeled architecture, assisted with level design, managed asset creation.Environment lighting for Forza Motorsport 3, creating daylight and tunnel rigs.
Managed render farm, computing tens of thousands of lightmaps per environment.
Painted custom IBL images and created lighting composites for each environment.
Documented lighting pipeline, assisted with lighting tools design.