Hugo Guerra

Hugo Guerra

Independent VFX Supervisor / Creative Director

VFX Supervisor / 26 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Digital Compositor / Visual Effects Supervisor

The Crew 2 (2018)

Visual Effects Artist (Game Trailer Segment)

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (2017)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Homefront: The Revolution (2016)

Digital Compositor

EVE: Valkyrie (2016)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Smokestack (2014)

Digital Compositor / Visual Effects Supervisor

Leonard in Slow Motion (2014)

Digital Compositor / Visual Effects Supervisor

The Fields (2014)

Lead Compositor

Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)

Digital Compositor / Visual Effects Supervisor

M.I.High (2007)

Digital Compositor

Resonanz

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Just Cause 3 Cinematic Trailer
Hugo is a award winning VFX Supervisor and Art Director working in the industry since 1999. His clients, include; Fire Without Smoke, The Mill, Nexus Productions, JellyFish Pictures, Atomic Arts. (among others) In 2010 he joined The Mill as a VFX Supervisor and Head of the Nuke Department, currently he is working very closely with Fire Without Smoke, a agency specialised in VideoGames marketing, He just finishing working as a Cinematic Director in the latest Trailers for the AAA game Just Cause 3 from Square Enix and for the IOS smash hit Rival Kingdoms.
Work History

  • The Mill

    May 2011 - December 2014

  • VFX Supervisor & VFX Creative Director

    Fire Without Smoke

    November 2014 - Present

    Working as a Visual Effects Supervisor and VFX Creative Director in Game Cinematics and Trailers.

  • Director

    VFX Vault, Ltd

    October 2010 - Present

  • VFX Supervisor & Nuke Lead

    The Mill

    August 2010 - November 2014
    London

    Working as VFX Supervisor of the Nuke team, Onset Supervisor, Lead 2D, Senior compositor. Responsible for the Nuke and Hiero pipeline of the London office.

  • VFX Teacher

    FXPHD

    September 2013 - Present

    Been a teacher at FXPHD for 2 terms now, teaching the first Hiero and the first Nuke Studio courses of this Online school.

  • VFX Teacher

    Campus i12

    November 2007 - Present

    Occasional teacher and Lecturer of Digital Compositing at the Campus i12 visual FX school. (usually 3-4 times a year)

  • Compositing Instructor

    Escape Studios

    March 2010 - January 2013

    Teaching / Lecturing in the 20 week Evening compositing course. Based in The Foundry's Nuke, it will cover all the essentials of compositing, visual effect theory and the more advance 3D system with UV projections, 3D matte paintings and basic shading inside Nuke.

  • Lecturer in Digital Compositing

    National Film and Television School

    January 2011 - January 2011

    Nuke's 3D system and Projections

  • Lead Senior Compositor

    Nexus Productions

    April 2010 - November 2010

    Senior Lead Compositor.

  • VFX Art Director / Lead Compositor

    Animech AB

    May 2006 - August 2010

    Started as a Compositor / Editor and now working as a VFX Art Director and Director.
    Main activities: Directing CGI animations, VFX Supervision on Set, Lead Compositing, editing videos, tracking 3D and motion graphics creation for multiple projects. Development of Animech’s workflow for compositing and 3D rendering.
    Worked in projects from companies like: GE, Beckman&Coulter;, Sas, Radi, ABB, Digene, Ericssson, Jamtkraft, Novozymes, Merk amount others.

  • Nuke Composting trainer

    Soho Editors

    June 2010 - July 2010


    Teaching the 5-Day comprehensive introduction to NUKE 101 at SohoEditors.

  • Freelance Digital Compositor (Nuke)

    Jellyfish Pictures

    January 2010 - June 2010


    Working as a freelance Digital compositor in Nuke for full HD CGI project.

  • VFX Supervisor / Digital Compositing

    Phantom VFX

    June 2009 - December 2009


    Onset VFX Supervisor for the TV Show MIHigh from BBC / Kudos.
    Lead compositing / 3D Tracking and Pipeline TD on the same show.

  • Tutorials creation; Compositing; Nuke Pipeline Tutorials

    cmiVFX

    2008 - 2009

  • Owner; Compositor; Director

    The Maple Studio

    January 2003 - May 2006

    Positions held: Director, Compositor, Cameramen and Motion graphics artist.
    Main activities: Directing music videos, promos and corporate videos, developing TV show pilots,
    compositing and motion graphics creation for several projects in partnership with MozoStudio
    (www.mozostudio.com), 25 Frames (www.25frames.com) and Tatyana Hill.

  • Freelance Director / Compositor / Motion Graphics

    MozoStudio

    January 2004 - January 2006

    Freelancer as: Director, Compositor, Cameramen and Motion graphics artist.
    Main activities: Directing promos and corporate videos.

  • Owner; Compositor; Director

    Timecode

    January 2002 - January 2003

    Positions held: Co-Owner, Director, Compositor, Cameramen and Motion graphics artist.
    Main activities: Directing music videos, promos and corporate videos.

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Education

  • Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

    1996 - 2002