Christian Hogue

Work History

• creative director/photographer

  far from the maddening crowd

  January 2010 - Present

  specialising in destination, food, interiors, fashion photography "Far from the Maddening Crowd" takes you to those secret places....
  
  farfromthemaddeningcrowd.com
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  creative director

  Lost In Space

  March 1990 - Present

  the creative director is responsible for the over all visual direction of lost in space. this includes selecting the appropriate creative talent and focusing them on the direction that lost in space is pioneering as a virtual creative studio specialising in producing digital imagery for film, video, print and nu-media.

• artist/photogrpher

  christian-hogue.com

  January 1990 - Present

  digital art and art photography portfolio site
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  founder

  Lost In Space

  1990 - Present

  christian founded lost in space as digital film studio initially specialising in high end visual effects and animation for tv commercials and feature film.subsequently in the late 1990's lost in space developed into a design lead visual studio creating ground breaking 3d motiongraphics for print film video and nu-media.
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  visual effects supervisor

  Lost In Space

  1990 - Present

  in house visual effects supervisor at lost in space. over site and superivsion of shot sand technical developments at lost in space and on projects for clients.
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  Director

  Lost In Space

  2000 - January 2021

  London, United Kingdom

  Directing Commercials, Concert Visuals, Art Installations at lost in space.

• CG Consultant

  Wide Eyed Entertainment

  October 2010 - December 2010

  London, United Kingdom

  engaged as an independent consultant advising on rendering and render-farm issues on the "March of the Dinosaurs" 90min special.

• render pipeline supervisor

  crest animation

  September 2006 - September 2006

  render pipeline supervision during the production of the first 3d animated feature to be completely post produced in India. the project involved analysing and optimizing the studios existing render pipeline involving a Linux and windows mix of mental ray render farm nodes.
  this involved working closely with the studios technical and production staff improving working procedures and technical aspects of the render pipeline to expedite delivery of the feature.

• shader team leader

  scarlet digital

  November 2004 - January 2005

  team leader supervising and implementing shaders in the animaiton pipeline on captian scarlet tv series episode 1. using maya and renderman with mtor. responsible for developing shader techniques, porblem solving for team memebers, and liasing with other pipeline teams in the early stage of development of the overall pipeline.

• lighting/shading team member

  Scarlet Digital Images / Gerry Anderson Production

  2003 - 2004

  lighting/shading maya/renderman

• 3d consultant

  channel 10 australia

  1998 - 1999

  3d animation, consulting, training
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  sub contractor

  film factory

  1998 - 1998

  lost in space studios was contracted to do 20 shots on the lost in space feature in production at the film factory at that time. lost in space produced external space spider shots using alias and renderman for compositing at double negative and men in white coats
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  Head of 3d

  Rushes

  1990 - 1996

  lost in space provided the 3d facility at Rushes Post Production in london. Christian was as well as the founder of lost in space the acting head of 3d responsible for assembling the visual effects and 3d team and supervising them to produce tv commercials and feature film effects. largely using alias and softimage with renderman.
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  Terminator 2 : CG Animator

  Industrial Light & Magic

  1990 - 1991

  ILM, Marin, California

  A member of the death team responsible for creating the final melt down shots of the T1000 in Terminator 2. using renderman and alias primarily as an Animator but working with a team of other animators and software developers creating a unique set of tools to assist in the creation of the shots.
  I also introduced softimage to ilm.

• 3d artist

  ZAP PRODUCTIONS

  1988 - 1989

  Sydney, Australia

  3d animation and lighting, CG generalist
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  Head of 3d

  MPC

  1986 - 1988

  London, United Kingdom

  as head of 3d Chrisitan was responsible for leading the 3d team in the creation of 3d animation working with the other departments of the company, compositing editing studio etc. during this period christian was responsible for introducing the first Alias software on an SGI work station into the london Video Post Production scene.