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Advanced Lighting Mentorship
Our Advanced Lighting Mentorship is a 5-week program where you’ll light a shot under the guidance of experienced mentors, developing skills to create feature-quality lighting. From planning and reference gathering to execution, you’ll work through the full process step by step.
By the end of the mentorship, you’ll have the confidence and ability to light your own shots at a feature-film level, ready for industry standards.
Pasquale Giardino
Senior Lighting & Compositing Artist
Pasquale Giardino is a Senior Lighting and Compositing Artist with a master in Cinematography and a background in Computer Science
Over the years he has had the pleasure of working on many high-profile projects.
His passion for detail, composition, and storytelling through light has brought some of our favorite characters and worlds to life. Light is where magic truly happens
For Pasquale, lighting and compositing are emotion and storytelling.
Combining artistic and technical expertise with a passion for photography, illustration, and lighting, he creates visually compelling work using tools like Katana, Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Unreal Engine and many more. Pasquale is passionate about learning, problem-solving, and sharing knowledge to help others grow.
Here is Pasquale Giardino’s showreel, showcasing over a decade of experience as a Senior Lighting and Compositing Artist. He has worked at some of the world’s leading studios.
Included In Your Mentorship
When you join our five-week mentorship, you’ll light your own shot from start to finish and create a polished piece for your showreel.
Included in your mentorship are all of our advanced lighting courses (valued at over $1,000), which you can watch at your own pace. In these lessons, you’ll see how our in-house lighting team approaches shots, builds them step by step, and overcomes real production challenges.
Each course takes you behind the scenes of how we light student projects, giving you insights into different workflows, creative decisions, and practical techniques that you can apply directly to your own work.
Our goal is simple: to give you the tools, guidance, and confidence you need to grow and succeed.
Advanced Lighting for Animation 01
Learn everything from set up to compositing in this step-by-step lighting course! Lighting is that last cherry on top to your shot and we're here to show you how our lighting team makes every student shot feature ready.
Level: Beginner
Price: $250 USD
Duration: 2 hr 45 mins
Advanced Lighting for Animation 04
Learn everything from set up to compositing in this step-by-step lighting course! Lighting is that last cherry on top to your shot and we're here to show you how our lighting team makes every student shot feature ready. This course also has more of a focus on different lighting and displacement techniques on the textures.
Level: Beginner
Price: $250 USD
Duration: 2 hr 45 mins
Advanced Lighting for Animation 02
Learn everything from set up to compositing in this step-by-step lighting course! Lighting is that last cherry on top to your shot and we're here to show how our team makes every student shot feature ready. This course also has more of a focus on environment lighting.
Level: Beginner
Price: $250 USD
Duration: 3 hr 30 mins
Advanced Lighting for Animation 05
Learn everything from set up to compositing in this step-by-step lighting course! Lighting is that last cherry on top to your shot and we're here to show you how our lighting team makes every student shot feature ready. This course also has more of a focus on volume area options and lights inside the volume!
Level: Beginner
Price: $250 USD
Duration: 3 Hours
Advanced Lighting for Animation 03
Learn everything from set up to compositing in this step-by-step lighting course! Lighting is that last cherry on top to your shot and we're here to show you how our lighting team makes every student shot feature ready. This course has a focus on Color Space ACES 1.2.
Level: Beginner
Price: $250 USD
Duration: 2 Hours
Five-Week Mentorship $799
Outcomes you’ll achieve
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A fully rendered Lupin House studio shot to showcase in your reel.
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Weekly 30-minute critique sessions with your mentor, designed to emulate a real studio environment.
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Full access to our complete lighting course library, plus all future courses created by our in-house lighting team.
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Entry into a supportive community of animation and lighting enthusiasts, where you can connect, share, and grow.
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Please be aware that this mentorship is advanced and feedback driven and emulates a studio environment. You should be sure you are proficient with tools and software before applying.
Who is this mentorship for?
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Aspiring lighters who want to break into the industry with a strong showreel piece.
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Students and recent graduates looking to take their skills beyond classroom learning.
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Artists transitioning from other areas (modeling, animation, compositing) who want to specialize in lighting.
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Junior professionals who want to refine their workflow and learn industry-proven techniques.