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Hugo LegayHL

Hugo Legay

3D modeler/texturing/lookdev

€270/day
Montpellier, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Hugo

🙋🏻‍♂️ Why work with me?
I’m Hugo, a 3D Generalist who brings creatures, characters, and cinematic visuals to life.
With a focus on modeling, lookdev, and lighting, I blend artistic sensitivity with technical precision… and a genuine love for anything with claws, scales, silhouettes, or dramatic rim lights.

My mission: to make the unreal feel alive, believable, emotional, and visually striking.

🔮 What I bring to your project:
- Character & creature sculpts with personality (stylized, realistic, organic, animals, monsters)
- Clean, production-ready models built for animation or rigging
- Smooth retopo & UVs your team will actually enjoy using
- Smart PBR textures that respond beautifully to light
- Lookdev & shading that give your assets a real identity
- Cinematic lighting & rendering (turntables, keyshots, product shots)
- Model cleanup, polish, and sculpt fixes
- Premium product renders & packshots

🧰 Tools I work with:
Maya • ZBrush • Substance Painter • Mari • Arnold • Marvelous Designer • Photoshop • DaVinci Resolve
(I know my tools as well as I know my shapes and silhouettes.)

🎯 Who I’m a great fit for:
- Indie studios needing fast, reliable asset support
- VFX / Animation / Game creators who need retopo & UV expertise
- Agencies looking for clean, premium renders
- Artists needing polish, cleanup, or sculpt upgrades
- Brands wanting high-end product visuals with cinematic flair

🔗 Links: 🖼️ Portfolio: artstation.com/hugolegay1
🎓 Rookies: 🌐 LinkedIn:
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Moonshot studio
    LEAD TEXTURING/LOOKDEV
    FILM AND AV
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    Rome, Italy
    In charge of the Texturing and LookDev Department, leading a team of 10+ artists to craft highly photorealistic creatures and assets for e-commerce.

    - Managed daily feedback sessions
    - Coordinated between Modeling, Texture, and Groom departments
    - Improved the pipeline workflow
    - Contributed to problem-solving and process optimization throughout production
    - Collaborated closely with supervisors and production teams for final asset delivery
    - Handled staging and rendering of assets
    Leadership Supervisor Pipeline Management probleme solving Rendu 3D
  • The Rookies
    Rookie of the Year - Finalist
    FILM AND AV
    July 2025 - September 2025 (2 months)
    • Rookie of the Year - Visual Effects
    • Carreer Oportunities - Ghost VFX
    • NIGHTFALL - Film of the Year - 3D animation

    https://www.therookies.co/u/HugoLegay
    demoreel contest project
  • RIDE FX
    CHARA/CREATURE ARTIST
    FILM AND AV
    July 2025 - September 2025 (2 months)
    Vannes, France
    "Zoo de Beauval" - Immersive 360° short film on marine wildlife
    > Created animable stylized creatures for a immersive short film attraction
    > Modeled and textured assets with attention to stylization and visual fidelity
    > Collaborated with the team to ensure seamless integration of characters into the environment
    Modélisation 3D Substance Painter Zbrush stylised cartoon

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Education

  • Master (Digital Director)
    ArtFx
    2024
    Master (Digital Director)
  • High school diploma - Scientific specialty
    Lycée Français George Pompidou
    2019
    High school diploma - Scientific specialty

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