Hugh Johnson

Work History

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  Houdini Generalist

  Cinesite

  January 2019 - Present

  London, United Kingdom

  

  

  

  

  
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  Senior 3D Generalist and FX TD

  Nexus Productions

  September 2014 - May 2018
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  Senior Hair TD

  Nexus Productions

  June 2015 - July 2015
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  3D Generalist

  Nexus Productions

  October 2014 - May 2015

• Comper

  Avalon Entertainment

  December 2014 - March 2015

  Comper on Man Down Series 2
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  FX TD and Comp

  Tiger Aspect

  August 2014 - September 2014

  FX TD on Bad Education Series 3
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  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.
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  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.
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  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
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  VFX Supervisor

  BBC

  January 2014 - February 2014

  VFX Supervisor on Bluestone 42
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  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.
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  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.
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  FX TD

  RealtimeUK

  April 2013 - July 2013
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  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