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Hugo Santos

Portugal

Director

Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Compositing

Visual Storyteller Motion Design Art Director; illustratior; animator

Biography

Hi! Im Hugo!

Having over a decade of experience in motion graphics, multimedia design, video editing, and more recently illustration, I am a highly motivated and creative Visual Storyteller.

The thing I enjoy most of all is getting goosebumps over a story well shown and told. Conveying emotion and meaning in my work is a passion I hold dearly, which makes me engage in a briefing as a sort of personal mission. 

I have worked with multiple industry leading software such as Adobe pack, C4D, Blender, DAZ, Procreate and Resolume Arena, among some others. I am comfortable enough around spreadsheet software which I have used for organizing workflow and pipelines, and other necessary text editing apps, as well as with chat and meeting apps.

My career as freelance and then as Art Director has led me to specialize in interpreting complex client briefs and translating them into narratives. I have also managed teams of creative professionals, signaling and tracing potential growth trajectories aligned with both the team members wants and aspirations and with company and team needs. I have also had the pleasure to coordinate and mediate workflows between different organizations in high scale projects such as UNHCR in documentary; and government and NGO funded partnership programs, delivering high end products and performances.

Skills

Roles

  • Mastery
  • Mastery
  • Intermediate
  • Intermediate
  • Intermediate

Technical Skills

  • Mastery
  • Advanced

Software

  • Mastery
  • Mastery

Other Skills

  • Advanced

Work Experience

2009 – Present day

Freelancer

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Founder and developer of the brand VisualJackPT which started out as a Stage performance VJing, and later grew into an event coverage service and multimedia production, Motion Graphics and Animation.

2019 – 2025

Art Director

Digital Factory (Portugal & Angola)

Art Director for Motion Graphics, and Animation. Responsible for mood and storyboards, bridging the gap between the script and production teams. Project development and client management.

2018 – 2019

Lead Motion Designer

Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Lisbon)
Lead Motion Designer, and later team leader. Creating content for multiple platforms, such as TV and Social Media in a fast-paced environment.

2017 – 2018

Motion Designer and Video Editor

Trigital Audiovisuais (Lisbon)
Motion design and video editing for kids' shows and special TV Reports. Motion design and video editing for TV spots for Nickelodeon Portugal. Institutional communication and TV advertisement clients.

2015 – 2017

Animator e Motion Designer

GMK - Golfmark - Impresa (Lisbon)
Part of the team responsible for looking after and developing TV content, corporate branding, animation, and motion graphics advertising. 360&VR content development for events and digital museums, amo

2014 – 2015

Motion Graphics Production

DigitEmotions (Lisbon)
Visual development and Motion graphics animation for a voting awareness campaign. Coordinating directly with the client to reach during all stages of development.

2013 – 2013

Marketing Manager Cover of MEO Sudoeste Festival

IPBeja - GICOM
Team coordinator and activity supervisor, while taking care of photography and publication on social media for the duration of the event.

Education

2015 – 2016

Motion Design

ETIC

Motion Design

Motion Design specialization.

2009 – 2013

Fine Art and Multimedia

IPBeja

Multimedia

The degree in Fine Arts and Multimedia is one focused on preparing critical thinking individuals with a skillset driven for modernised media while fomenting the roots of traditional techniques.