Sam is currently Lighting Supervisor at DreamWorks Animation in Los Angeles, having been promoted from Lead Lighting Artist — a role he held for six years across major animated productions. Before DreamWorks he served as Virtual Production Lighting Supervisor at Technicolor and Virtual Production Lighting Lead at MPC, where his credits include The Lion King, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. He also lit The Lego Batman Movie at Animal Logic in Sydney. His work spans every tier of the industry: feature animation, live-action VFX, and virtual production pipelines.

Key credentials:

• Lighting Supervisor — DreamWorks Animation (current)
• Virtual Production Lighting Supervisor — Technicolor
• MPC: The Lion King, Guardians of the Galaxy, Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Animal Logic: The Lego Batman Movie

What you’ll work on with Sam:

• Building a cinematic lighting workflow inside Unreal Engine
• Understanding how real-time lighting differs from offline rendering — and how to bridge them
• Lighting complete scenes to a professional DreamWorks standard