MARVEL'S

SPIDER-MAN 2

Insomniac Games | 2023

PROSITION

Lighting Art Manager

DURATION AT STUDIO

2020 – 2024

GENRE

Adventure

Hack and Slash/Beat’em up

Open World

PLATFORM

Exclusive on PS5

ENGINE

Insomniac Engine v.

Insomniac Games Website:

https://insomniac.games/

Shaped the lighting identity of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5), one of PlayStation’s most celebrated and commercially successful launches. Led both in-house and outsourced lighting teams across the open world, silver path, and cinematic sequences, working with a dynamic and baked pipeline at massive scale. Delivered sun-drenched Manhattan exteriors, tension-filled interiors, and high-drama cutscene cinematics, earning the title wide critical recognition for visual quality. Developed proprietary lighting reference resources adopted studio-wide as a best practice for large-scale lighting consistency. Owned end-to-end production planning, scheduling, resource allocation, milestone reviews, and stakeholder reporting, from pre-production through ship. Introduced Kanban workflows and Miro collaboration boards that increased team participation by 50% in the first month.

Noted Achievements

• Designed, fixed issues, and connected with IT to ensure open-world lighting scenarios matched the golden and silver path gameplay.

• Designed an Excel-based visual production tracking tool that was adopted company-wide as a best practice across similar projects.

• Averted roadblocks with 1:1 weekly group and individual communication sessions, aligning tasks, celebrating wins with show-and-tell monthly meetings, synchronizing team goals, and addressing cross-functional dependencies as project leader.

• Built a high-performing creative team through coaching and mentorship, enhancing the group’s leadership and visual storytelling skills, while enhancing project visibility, internal stakeholder review, and feedback.

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