Jean Choi

Look Development & Lighting Artist

Los Angeles, CA | linkedin.com/in/jeanchoi

Lighting and Look Development Artist/ CG Generalist with over 15 years of experience across feature films, episodic television, immersive media, and commercial work.


Skills

Lighting & Look Development : Physically Based Shading • Shot-Based Lighting • Modeling • Texturing


Immersive

Lead Look Development & Lighting Artist
RadicalMedia / The Illuminarium

  • Led look development and lighting for Space: A Journey to the Moon and Beyond, focusing on non-terrain assets. Developed physically based materials and lighting solutions using Arnold and Houdini.

Senior Look Development Artist
American Museum of Natural History & The Hayden Planetarium

  • Collaborated with NASA scientists to create scientifically accurate spacecraft visuals for Worlds Beyond Earth.

Feature Film & Episodic

Method Studios
Black Panther
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Doctor Strange
Captain America: Civil War
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The Umbrella Academy

Zoic Studios
See (Season 2)
NOS4A2 (Season 2)

Sony Pictures Imageworks
The Amazing Spider-Man
Green Lantern

Look Effects
Noah

Recent Relevant Professional Experience

Untold Studios — CG Lighting Artist (2025)

Light Field Lab — CG Generalist (2023-2024)
Converted non-MetaHuman characters to MetaHumans and optimized characters for performance-capture workflows.

Blacksmith TV — Lighter (2023)

Buck Design — CG Generalist (2022)

RadicalMedia / The Illuminarium — Lead Look Development & Lighting Artist
( 2021 – 2022)
Space: A Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Led look development and lighting for all non-terrain assets using Arnold and Houdini for large-format immersive environments.

Zoic Studios — Lighting & Look Development Artist (2020-2021)
See (Season 2)
NOS4A2 (Season 2)

Epic Games — Unreal Fellowship (Virtual Production Fellow) (2020)
Epic Studios, Asheville, NC

Nowhere, Nowhere Corp — VR Environment Artist (2020)
Created immersive VR environments for interactive experiences.

Zoic Studios — Look Development / Lighting Artist (2020)
NOS4A2 (Season 2)

American Museum of Natural History — Look Development Artist (2019-2020)
Worlds Beyond Earth — Hayden Planetarium
Collaborated with NASA on scientifically accurate spacecraft visuals.

Apple — Look Development Artist (2019)

Method Studios — Lighting & Look Development Artist (2015-2019)

Software

Houdini • Maya • Katana • Arnold • V-Ray • Unreal Engine • Nuke • Mari • Substance Painter • ZBrush • Adobe Creative Suite

Commercial

Untold Studios
Buck Design
Blacksmith TV
Apple
The Mill
Psyop
Logan
Gentleman Scholar
Duck Studios
Brand New School


Lighting • Look Development • Modeling • Texturing