[PAID][CONTRACT] Previsualisation Technician (Lighting / Live Events) – Vectorworks / Unreal / Depence

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[PAID][CONTRACT] Previsualisation Technician (Lighting / Live Events) – Vectorworks / Unreal / Depence

Job Details

Location: Remote (Europe preferred – Eastern/Central Europe ideal)
Type: Freelance / Contract (ongoing work)
Rate: Competitive, depending on experience
Industry: Live Events / Touring Productions / Show Design

About Us

We are a UK-based creative technology studio working in large-scale live events, touring productions, and immersive installations.

Our work focuses on lighting previsualisation, stage design, and real-time visualisation pipelines using tools such as Vectorworks, Depence, and Unreal Engine.

We are currently expanding our freelance pool of junior to mid-level PreVis technicians.

Role Overview

We are looking for Previsualisation Technicians / Technical Artists with experience in real-time 3D workflows to support ongoing and upcoming projects.

Work typically includes:

  • Building and optimising 3D scenes for lighting and stage previsualisation

  • Translating CAD / Vectorworks designs into real-time environments

  • Setting up lighting, materials, and cameras for previs output

  • Supporting pipelines between Vectorworks → Unreal / Depence

  • Assisting with fast-turnaround iterations for productions

Required Skills (not all mandatory)

We are interested in candidates with some overlap across the following:

  • Unreal Engine 5

o Core:

o Scene assembly and level building

o Lighting setup within UE5, stage lighting workflows, key/fill/rim

o Material creation and optimisation

o Camera setup and sequencer workflows

o Basic Blueprint knowledge

o Real-time rendering features (Lumen, Nanite, Substrate, Virtual Shadow Maps)

o Rendering optimisation and upscaling (TSR, DLSS, anti-aliasing strategies)

o Desirable:

o Scene optimisation (LODs, draw calls, GPU profiling)

o nDisplay / multi-output experience

o sACN / ArtNet / OSC integration experience

o Niagara particle systems

o Atmospheric and volumetric effects

o Ray tracing knowledge

o Bonus:

o Unreal C++

  • At least one of:

    • Vectorworks (Spotlight / event design workflows)

    • Depence / lighting visualisation tools (Capture, MA3D, etc.)

    • ArchViz / real-time visualisation experience

Ideal Background (strong bonus)

  • Live events / theatre / concert production

  • Lighting design or programming exposure

  • Experience working with:

    • DMX / MA / timecode environments

  • Understanding of real-world stage layouts and rigging

Important

This is not a game development role.

We are specifically looking for people interested in:

  • Lighting

  • Stage / event design

  • Technical visualisation

  • Real-time previs workflows

If your background is gaming, that’s fine—but please include relevant lighting / visualisation examples.

What to Send

Please include:

  • Portfolio (very important)

    • Lighting / previs work preferred

    • Unreal scenes, ArchViz, or stage/environment work

  • Short description of your workflow:

    • Example: “Vectorworks → Unreal” or “CAD → real-time pipeline”

  • Location + availability

Engagement

  • Ongoing freelance opportunities (project-based)

  • Possibility for long-term collaboration

  • Remote, flexible setup

:envelope_with_arrow: Apply

Reply here or send a direct message with your portfolio and details.

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Hi John, very interested by this post and I believe I’ve got a background that would be pretty useful for you guys. My name’s Ashtyn Jones and I’m a lighting/tech artist based in Melbourne; I have 5 Years experience working in 3D animated series, a vast bulk of them real-time rendered cinematic shows done in UE.

Link to my Portfolio:
https://youtu.be/Xb68o2BIE24

On top of the lighting / environment / niagara work in my portfolio I have also worked for a year with Steelbridge Studios in Brisbane, working on a few virtual production commercials. As such I have some familiarity with nDisplay (And, specifically, quite a lot of experience optimising scenes to help nDisplay shoots run smoothly.)

Workflow:

With most of my work being in animation, I am very comfortable with a Maya → UE pipeline, and while I do not have Vectorworks experience, I’m a quick learner and am sure I can apply the knowledge I’ve gained from my virtual production experiences.

Location: Inner-city Melbourne
Availability: I’m currently furthering my studies at RMIT, and am available roughly 2-3 days a week. Potentially more if you are looking for workers on weekends. Willing to shift my hours to support time-zone differences, happy to discuss further.

I believe that’s all my relevant details, hope you’ve had a good weekend and if you’d like to chat further please reach out to me at: tip.vfx@gmail.com

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All you’ve requested, matching location + I am a producer and musician, maybe we can make an arrangement - definitely fill all the checkmarks for the request and the surplus is that I am heavily engaged with music and music production - I actually like it more than the VFX but my background is over 10 years in the technical game and CGI stuff.

All info is in drive.

Based on the terms and offer maybe we can arrange something - I’d especially like getting involved in audio stuff and live stage prep - feel free to fill me in on who you’re working and what live events and any other info regarding the works influence in the world.

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Lighting Portfolio by Ruben

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Hi John,

I came across your post looking for freelance Previsualisation Technicians and wanted to reach out.

My background is primarily in film lighting and cinematography. I work as a gaffer/lighting designer and also have experience with DMX, console programming and Vectorworks. A big part of my approach to lighting is previsualization—I like being able to digitally build out a lighting concept, experiment with fixture placement and communicate what the finished setup could actually look like before we get on set.

I actually just put together a short example from Netflix’s Trigger Warning showing one of my digital lighting previsualizations alongside photos of the physical set we built and images from the finished production.

I’m currently expanding my Unreal/real-time visualization skills, so your junior-to-mid freelance pool sounded particularly interesting to me.

You can check out some of my work and some of my workflow

Thanks,

Emmett

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Hi, I’m a 3D/Lighting Visualizer and Fountain Show Programmer from Indonesia. I have experience with Syncronorm Depence, 3D modeling, lighting simulation, DMX/Art-Net, and multimedia fountain shows.

I came across your Previsualisation Technician opportunity and would be interested in working with your team on a freelance/remote basis.

You can see some of my work here: https://www.instagram.com/hilalichwanu?stkn=MXQ2dGx1dWMzcDIxYQ==

I’d be happy to share more portfolio/work samples if needed. Thank you!

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Hi, I’m a Barcelona-based UE5 Level Designer with a background in architecture, currently expanding into real-time previs and cinematic workflows. I’d be very interested in joining your freelance Previsualisation Technician pool.

My experience includes UE5 scene assembly and blockout, spatial design, camera setup, Sequencer and basic Blueprints. My architecture background also gives me experience working from plans/CAD and translating spatial information into 3D environments.

My current workflow is typically: 2D/CAD reference → UE5 blockout / scene assembly → camera & Sequencer setup → iterative previs.

I don’t yet have professional Vectorworks/Depence or live-event lighting experience, but this is exactly the area of real-time previs and technical visualisation I’m looking to develop further into.

Portfolio: https://enekoaramendia.es/
Previs WIP: Temple_previs – Portfolio Eneko Aramendia

Location: Barcelona, Spain
Availability: approx. 24 hrs/week, with flexibility for short production peaks.

Happy to provide my CV or any additional information.

Best,
Eneko Aramendía