Jonathan Ciscon
Jonathan Ciscon is a lighting artist and lighting supervisor whose work in animated films contributes to visual storytelling through controlled illumination and atmospheric rendering. Ciscon served as a lighting artist on How to Train Your Dragon 2, a 2014 animated feature where lighting plays a key role in enhancing mood and depth across scenes featuring dragons, landscapes, and character interactions.
Biography
Jonathan Ciscon is a lighting artist and lighting supervisor whose work in animated films contributes to visual storytelling through controlled illumination and atmospheric rendering. Ciscon served as a lighting artist on How to Train Your Dragon 2, a 2014 animated feature where lighting plays a key role in enhancing mood and depth across scenes featuring dragons, landscapes, and character interactions. The film’s use of dynamic lighting to convey time of day, weather, and emotional tone reflects the technical and artistic demands of the lighting department, a field where Ciscon has contributed.
In 2024, Ciscon held the position of lighting supervisor on Kung Fu Panda 4, overseeing the lighting team’s work to maintain visual consistency and enhance the film’s animated environments and cha…
