Bio

My name’s Hugo Guerra, I was born in 1978 in the beautiful city of Porto, Portugal. I have a master degree in Visual Arts and, back then, I worked in several video art installations, short films and experimental videos, finishing my degree with the hit TV film ‘ O Ninja das Caldas’. in 2002 I open, together with 3 more friends, the Video and design studio ‘Timecode’, where I directed, filmed, edited and did compositing for a wide variety of works, from documentaries, short films, TV spots, corporate films as well as several personal projects. After this first and relatively successful experience, I joined forces with a former swedish film director, Roger Berg, and worked for 2 years with his company, 25 Frames, making some TV spots, music and corporate videos as well as some concepts for TV show pilots. In 2005 I moved from Caldas da Rainha to Lisbon and open my own “one man’s“ company, The Maple Studio, working in partnership with 25 Frames and Designer Marco Madruga’s Mozostudio in several corporate films, spots and demos for some high profile companies in Portugal.

Software and hardware skills:

Knowledge of the following applications in a full production pipeline:

-The Foundry Nuke - Expert knowledge of application, including gizmo creation, 3D tracking, Shader rebuild, farm rendering setup and customisation for 3D pipelines.

-Adobe After Effects - Strong knowledge of application.

- Apple Final Cut Studio - Expert knowledge of the application in a professional uncompressed 10 bit HD/SD pipeline.

-Apple Color - Expert knowledge of the application in a professional uncompressed 10 bit HD/SD pipeline.

- Adobe Photoshop - Strong Knowledge of application in common tasks of compositing and motion graphic design.

-Pixel Farm PFTrack - Good knowledge of application in a professional environment.

-Adobe Premiere Pro - Strong knowledge of application in a professional Pro-HD/HDV and DVCAM pipeline.

-Eyeon Fusion - Medium knowledge of the application.

- Apple Shake - Strong knowledge of the application.

-Autodesk 3ds Max - Basic knowledge in rendering, Knowhow in outputting geometry OBJ and cameras for Nuke, render passes setup and file buffer outputs for compositing.

-Autodesk Maya - Basic knowledge in rendering and tracking setup, Knowhow in output geometry OBJ and cameras for Nuke.

-Operating Systems - My main working environment is Mac OSX and Linux Ubuntu. I also have experience in installations and setup of production software and render configuration. I also have good knowhow of hardware installation and custom build workstations.

In an attempted to extend and wide my creative and technical knowledge and increase the quality and relevancy of future works, I left Portugal in 2006 and started working at Animech AB, in sweden, as a compositor and in 2008 as VFX Art Director and in some projects as a Director.

In 2008, I also became teacher in the IAA visual effects university in Ekjo, Sweden, teaching advance Nuke compositing.

In 2009 I moved to London and been working as a working as a consultant and freelancer for several clients, including, Phantom VFX, RockStar, Nexus Productions, The Mill London, Animech AB, JellyFish Pictures, Pelving Communications and Atomic Arts.

Most recently, I worked as a Nuke trainer at Escape Studios and the National Film and Television School (NFTS) and am the current joint Head of Nuke at The Mill