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James Wagner

James Wagner

Senior Lighting Artist

Raleigh , United States

Summary

I've been in the games industry for 17+ years and have been working mainly as a lighting artist for the past 12. Before that I was involved in VFX, modeling, texturing, and tools development within the art department. I also have experience with team building, career development and hiring.

Skills

Software proficiency

3ds Max

Houdini

Maya

Nuke

Photoshop

Unreal Engine

DaVinci Resolve

Snowdrop

Anvil

Radiant (COD Engine)

Productions

- Video Game
  Division 2 DLC
- Year
  2025
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Redstorm Entertainment
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Vanguard
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Warzone
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Modern Warfare
- Year
  2019
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Black Ops 4
- Year
  2018
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty WW 2
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Infinite Warfare
- Year
  2016
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Online
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Black Ops 3
- Year
  2015
- Role
  Senior Lighting Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
- Year
  2014
- Role
  Senior Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Ghosts
- Year
  2013
- Role
  Senior Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Black Ops 2
- Year
  2012
- Role
  Mid-Level Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
- Year
  2011
- Role
  Mid-Level Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Call of Duty Black Ops
- Year
  2010
- Role
  Associate Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Singularity
- Year
  2010
- Role
  Associate Artist
- Company
  Raven Software
- Video Game
  Wolfenstein
- Year
  2009
- Role
  Associate Artist
- Company
  Raven Software

Experience

Senior Lighting Artist at Redstorm Entertainment
Raleigh, US
June 2022 - May 2026
Main responsibilities – Lighting for single and multiplayer as well as cinematics. Post process color correction, and screen-space vfx.

Additional responsibilities - Tools dev, Backend technical art setup for lighting and vfx props. Inter-team communication with overseas studios.
Senior Lighting Artist at Raven Software
Middleton WI, United States of America
January 2013 - September 2021
Main responsibilities: Lighting, skybox capture and creation, post process color grading and look dev.

Additional responsibilities: Tools dev, hiring, team building and career development.
Mid-Level Artist at Raven Software
Middleton WI, United States of America
January 2011 - December 2012
Main Responsibilities: Vfx authoring and set-dressing as well as material creation and destructible authoring.

Additional Responsibilities: Tools development and post process color grading, Collision Authoring instruction, Material Pipeline Dev.
Associate Artist at Raven Software
Middleton WI, United States of America
January 2009 - December 2010
Main responsibilities: Modeling and texturing.

Additional Responsibilities: Set-dressing, Vfx and Tools development.