At DNEG, Look Development brings digital assets to life by combining technical expertise with artistic sensibility. As a Look Development Supervisor, you will guide the creative and technical standards for lookdev across productions, ensuring assets are visually striking, production-ready, and pipeline-efficient.
You’ll work closely with surfacing, modeling, and creature departments to define workflows, mentor artists, and ensure consistency across shows. This role blends hands-on lookdev with supervisory responsibilities, setting best practices, supporting artists, working on assets and collaborating with pipeline and technical teams to streamline workflows globally.

• Supervise and mentor LookDev artists, providing creative and technical guidance.
• Partner with modeling, texturing, and creature teams to ensure assets meet production needs and integrate smoothly into shots.
• Define and maintain look development standards for shaders, materials, and rendering.
• Collaborate with workflow and pipeline teams to ensure tools and templates are artist-friendly and production-ready.
• Oversee the creation of templated solutions for common asset types (e.g., digital doubles, hero creature …).
• Ensure assets are efficient, physically plausible, and scalable across multiple shows and global locations.
• Review and troubleshoot lookdev work to balance artistic goals with technical constraints.
• Encourage a collaborative environment, fostering communication between creative and technical groups.
• Contribute to the development of shader libraries, material libraries, and lookdev templates across key applications (Maya, Houdini, Mari, Substance, Nuke).
• Maintain an awareness of emerging technologies and influence adoption of new workflows.