Stuart Hogton is a BAFTA winning, UK based freelance 3D generalist, modeller and animator. He can take on any 3D task and produce exceptional results on time and on budget. Here are the core skills he can bring to a project ..

• Modelling / Sculpting - both hard surface and organic within any polygon budget
• Texturing / UV layout - clean UVs and either photoreal or stylized textures.
• Rigging - base rigs and blendshape face rigs, script controls where necessary.
• Animation - cycles for humans and creatures as well as character animation and lip sync.
• Lighting - setup of lights to match backplate and studio setup.
• Rendering - Mental Ray, Renderman and Vray plus associated shader networks.

With over 14 years experience in the games industry and commercials, he is well versed in the entire art pipeline using 3ds Max, Maya, Photoshop, Zbrush, Mudbox as primary tools and.

He currently works full-time at Sapient Nitro, Battersea as Head of 3D. He is still available for small scale 3D work on occasion.

“I've known Stuart for a long time. Extremely hard working and a great team player with a great knowledge of the development process. Very easy to talk to and professional. I would recommend Stuart to anyone as a freelancer/team member.”

Chi-Hung Cheung, Animator, Climax Entertainment Nottingham