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Erin Helter
Lighting & Compositing Artist
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Erin in a few words,
A passionate, creative, and dedicated artist with a strong drive to push shots further and create quality content in everything they do.
Soft Skills
Attention to Detail
Takes a conscientious approach, picking apart the visual elements of their work and assessing what can be done to improve it using learned techniques and exploration in order to meet their own high standards for their level of quality.
Organization
Takes avid notes during meetings, keeping close track of their shot statuses and fixes through spreadsheets with significant supporting information, including estimated completion times for production.
Communication
Actively participates in meetings and discussions, identifying potential issues, and asking relevant and clear questions while contributing valuable insights and ideas.
Teamwork
A great team player, always willing to help others with a positive attitude. Committed to sharing industry knowledge to elevate the team’s skills overall, fostering a positive and productive team dynamic.
Adaptability
Will adapt to any pipeline, tackling all the technical & creative challenges that come with it. They are committed to learning and improving what’s already been accomplished.
Creativity
Demonstrates initiative by seeking out opportunities to improve and enhance their work. Coming up with new ideas and suggestions while proactively communicating to ensure that any actions align with the overall project goals.
Passion
Erin's passion for their craft fuels their drive to create stunning work and continued growth in their career. They are focused on long-term development, honing their skills to provide the best quality work possible.
Technical Skills
Unreal Engine
ShotGrid
DaVinci Resolve
Redshift
Maya
Katana
Nuke
Arnold
Windows
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
Linux
Work Experience
Lighting & Compositing Artist
| OCTOBER 2024 — APRIL 2025
Adapted to a new pipeline in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with DreamWorks. In our partnership, we used the established look from the first movie as a jumping off point to elevate and push the visual artistic choices of the sequel even further.
Achieved the specified look through comprehensive documentation, style guides provided by the client, and the execution of technical in-house lighting tools, ensuring that the desired look and feel for the movie aligned with the vision of the director, production designer and visual effects supervisor throughout multiple rounds of notes and reviews.
Regularly communicated with team members, lighting leads and production to share knowledge and techniques, and to maintain an organized workflow in order to ensure proper prioritization of tasks while under pressure, contributing to the success of the project.
Demonstrated great adaptability and a thorough understanding of cinematography and the lighting software when often having to creatively invent new techniques to achieve pre-existing aesthetic elements created by DreamWorks.
Lighting & Compositing Artist
| FEBRUARY 2022 — SEPTEMBER 2023
Created a comprehensive 28 page wiki learning resource based on frequently asked questions during production. Practiced collaboration by sharing this resource with the team to improve methods, workflows, and techniques and preventing issues further down the line.
Built my own excel spreadsheet to intake shot notes and keep track of the stages of each shot. This maintained organization for production, and provided accurate completion estimates to maximize productivity and meet deadlines.
Trained new hires on the show’s pipeline, encouraging questions and providing mentorship.
Demonstrated exceptional ability to light multiple types of scenes while maintaining continuity between sequences, leading to consistent trust to execute complex scenes and contributing to over 20 mins of the show’s content.
Proactive approach to communicating and collaborating on creative ideas, making sure improvements aligned with the overall project goals while maintaining a high level of quality and style across the production.
Shared organized node scripts with the team, offering solutions tailored to the show's technical needs to execute and enhance the art direction.
Trusted to finish the project, troubleshooting fixes until the very end of Lighting’s production, after the rest of the team had left.
Gave an engaging & informative 11 minute presentation on the Lighting & Compositing process on Sonic Prime during a studio-wide production showcase. This presentation provided a sense of unity by sharing with exciting process of lighting & compositing and highlighting the significant contributions each department makes to further a production. This message of community resulted in recognition from key studio leaders.
Lighting & Compositing Artist
| OCTOBER 2021 — FEBRUARY 2022
Promoted to Intermediate Lighting Artist with my Supervisor's recommendation and support.
Trained new hires on the show’s pipeline, demonstrating a solid understanding of how art/technology should function and a strong proficiency in problem solving and offering technical solutions, encouraging questions and providing mentorship to team members to strengthen the team’s abilities overall.
Collaborated with my Lead on their work, establishing set-lighting templates and renderlayers for the team, taking direction from artistic and technical leadership while getting exposure and stepping up to the responsibilities required in a leadership role myself.
Stayed with the project until the very end of it's production, after the rest of the team had left.
Recognized by Leads, Supervisors and Producers across productions for my work ethic and artistic abilities.
Junior Lighting & Compositing Artist
| OCTOBER 2020 — OCTOBER 2021
Joined before the project launched into it's official Lighting Production to learn the pipeline and assist with early development and workflow.
Delivered shot assignments well within production deadlines.
Worked with Katana, exploring its applications, teaching my team how to use new nodes and apply it themselves.
Education
3D Animation & Visual Effects Diploma with Honours
| AUGUST 2019 — OCTOBER 2020
Specialized in Lighting & Compositing, collaborated with multiple teams on their respective projects.
Offered consistent support to my peers, regularly helping them with problem solving and feedback.
Testimonials
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“Erin's attention to detail and commitment to excellence have been instrumental in elevating the overall visual quality of our project.”
Kevin Monnier
Lighting Supervisor -
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“Erin will assess, organize, and execute their assignments in a timely and efficient manner - making them one of the artists with the least number of internal fixes.”
Alex Hollmann
Production Coordinator -
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“I have noticed their essence to be approachable, respectful, thoughtful, and friendly. Their personality draws that willingness to assist and consider others wherever they go.”
Anna Milla
Production Assistant
