Antônio Souza

Senior 3D Motion Director, FX Artist

I help Studios and Production Companies create advanced 3D Motion and Effects using Houdini, C4D, and Blender.

Experience: 10 years

    • I created a set of small-scale liquid and vellum tools and simulations to help Fireplace Creative develop content for Rimmel.

    • Served Stupid Raisins as a Plugin Director. In this role, I guided the creative team of animators and designers to produce packs of templates and plugins to Final Cut.

    • Worked as a contractor company with Polaric to create from start to finish their premium motion plugin products, and create Marketing assets for each one of them, including the promotional video and update the webpage.

    • Worked as a contractor company with Lokomotiv Studio to provide them with reliable services of motion graphics.

    • Served some other individuals and companies with their specific needs of 3D and motion graphics.

    • Successfully brought to reality the creative ideas of the company and its clients from concept to finish.

    • Helped achieve unique and custom-tailored effects using visual programming and VEX scripting in Houdini.

    • Composited some CG shots using Nuke and After Effects.

    • Conceived and implemented sophisticated YouTube channel openings, and logo animations.

    • Had two projects featured in the Motion Gallery and one in the After Effects Gallery on Behance.

  • Made all motion graphics and graphic design for the Virtual Campus of my University while I was studying Advertising there.

Employment History

Education

I mostly research and learn online and with colleagues. But I also owe a lot to my formal education.

  • For the final project, I acted as a Creative Director, leading the creative team in the campaign we developed for GRAACC.

    • I learned programming

    • I was initiated in Computer Graphics with Blender, Gimp and Photoshop.

    • I filled the role of Level Designer to develop a 3D Game with my colleagues using Blender. The game was shown on 3 events and attracted tutorship from University professors.

  • Where I learned a lot about business routines and entrepreneurship.

FX, Motion, Lighting, Look Dev

Clear Communication

Creative Problem Solving

Creative Direction

Art Direction and Design

Project Management

Collaboration & teamwork

Leadership

Skills

Softwares

Houdini, Cinema 4D, Blender

Octane, Arnold, Redshift, Cycles, Evee

Nuke, After Effects, Optical Flares, Magic Bullets, Frishluft, Apple Motion

Photoshop, Illustrator

Premiere, Davinci Resolve, Final Cut

Substance Designer, Storyboarder

Languages

Portuguese - native

English - fluent speaker

Spanish - I can understand

Hobbies

Jiu-jitsu, songwritting, singing, music production, board games, trekking