Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson

Senior Generalist / 24 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Creature TD

Strays (2023)

Lead Groom TD & Houdini Generalist

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Lead Groom TD & Houdini Generalist

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Lead Groom TD

The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)

CG Generalist

The Wheel of Time (2021)

Crowd FX Td

Extinct (2021)

Crowd FX Td

Respect (2021)

CG Generalist

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)

FX Td

The North Water (2021)

FX Td

No Time to Die (2021)

Senior Crowd FX Td

Wounds (2019)

FX Td

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

CG Generalist

The Witcher (2019)

Senior Houdini Groom TD

Watchmen (2019)

Visual Effects

Google I/O: Make Good Things Together (2018)

Compositor

The Greasy Strangler (2016)

Visual Effects Artist

Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite (2016)

Visual Effects Compositor

Sightseers (2013)

Visual Effects Artist

Total Recall (2012)

Visual Effects

The Midnight Beast (2012)

Visual Effects Artist

John Carter (2012)

Work History

  • Houdini Generalist

    Cinesite

    January 2019 - Present
    London, United Kingdom

  • Senior 3D Generalist and FX TD

    Nexus Productions

    September 2014 - May 2018

  • Senior Hair TD

    Nexus Productions

    June 2015 - July 2015

  • 3D Generalist

    Nexus Productions

    October 2014 - May 2015

  • Comper

    Avalon Entertainment

    December 2014 - March 2015

    Comper on Man Down Series 2

  • FX TD and Comp

    Tiger Aspect

    August 2014 - September 2014

    FX TD on Bad Education Series 3

  • Senior Hair and FX TD

    Nexus Productions

    June 2014 - August 2014

    Samsung Commercial. Cat, Squirrel, and Eagle hair modeling and styling. Hair shader, and V-Ray render settings. Setting up workflow for Deep Compositing. Dust and debris.

  • Particle TD

    Jason Harding Productions Ltd

    June 2014 - June 2014

    Particle Flow and Frost setup for projected double HD screen installation.

  • Lighting and FX TD

    Nexus Productions

    May 2014 - June 2014

    Bubble Witch 2 Commercial. Print campaign lighting and rendering at 12k. Bubble particles for TV commercial.

  • Lighting TD

    Nexus Productions

    April 2014 - April 2014

    Johhny Appleseed commercial. Lighting TD, using V-Ray and RPManager.

  • VFX Supervisor and FX TD

    RoughCut

    March 2014 - March 2014

    VFX Supervisor on Top Coppers

  • VFX Supervisor

    BBC

    January 2014 - February 2014

    VFX Supervisor on Bluestone 42

  • Senior Hair and Lighting TD

    Nexus Productions

    November 2013 - January 2014

    Hair modeling, and shader setup for 14 characters. Using Hair Farm and V-Ray.

  • VFX Supervisor

    BBC

    August 2013 - November 2013

    VFX Supervisor on Dani's Castle Series 2

  • FX TD and Generalist

    Darlow Smithson Productions

    July 2013 - August 2013

  • VFX Supervisor

    The Viral Factory

    July 2013 - July 2013

    On set supervision, and most of the post work on Qualcomm: The World Without Mobile.

  • FX TD

    RealtimeUK

    April 2013 - July 2013

  • FX TD

    Double Negative

    May 2011 - March 2012

    Worked on John Carter simulating clothing and costumes for the alien Tharks. Then moved onto Total Recall where I set up the initial crowd cloth system in Houdini, and then helped integrate it into the pipeline.

  • Freelance VFX Artist and Supervisor

    Freelance

    April 2004 - May 2011

    Worked as a freelancer on many TV shows including:

    The Wrong Door - VFX Supervisor
    Psychoville Series 1 and 2 - VFX Supervisor
    Dr Who - Compositor
    2012 - Compositor
    That Mitchell and Webb Look - VFX Supervisor
    Ideal - Animation Director
    Hounded - VFX Supervisor
    Taking the Flak - VFX Supervisor

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