SENIOR FLAME ARTIST BASED IN LOS ANGELES
Award-Winning Senior Flame Artist and VFX Supervisor with 25+ years of experience.
Since he was a kid, he has been passionate about aviation and cinema. With only 12 years old, he became the youngest pilot in the world of hang gliding, and this led him to discover his other great passion that would become his profession: cinema and television.
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​Still a teenager and with a Super-8mm film camera from his parents in hand began filming his trips and flights with his family, and from this day on, he has not stopped. Before even finishing his studies, he began to work in the area of TV/cinema and video production.
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More than 30 years later, now based in LA, Helder is still working with what he always loved to do.
Post-production for advertising spots, TV shows, and feature films with the best companies in Hollywood, like Apple, Jamm, Method Studios*, Digital Domain, Framestore, The Mill*, Ghost VFX, and Chapeau Studio.
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*This Companies are closed or merged with others.
Softwares and Tools
Main tool
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Autodesk Flame
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Secondary tools
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Syntheyes
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Mocha
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Adobe After Effects
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Nuke
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Photoshop
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Illustrator
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Adobe Premiere
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Resolve
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Media Encoder
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Shotgun
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FTrack.
Awards
Media 100 Gold Award - 1999
Gold on Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity - 2004
Shortlist on Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity - 2007
Gold VMB - MTV Network Video Music Award - Best Video Music - 2006
Gold on New York Festival
Gold on Popular Vote
Gold on Advertising and Portuguese Language Communication International Festival
Silver on Iberoamérica El Ojo
Only Brazilian film ever awarded on IAA Socially Responsible Communication Award Best animation on Iberoamerica El Ojo
Silver and bronze on FIAP | Silver in APT (Audiovisual Produc8on Technique) and Bronze in creative
Bronze on Pinnacle Awards (DDB internal awards)
Best of the market - CCSP - Who Make a Difference
4o Sesi-Fiesp Paulista Cinema Award - 2008 (Best Editing | Best Soundtrack)
Buenos Aires Brazilian Film Festival - 2008
Miami Brazilian Film Festival - 2008
Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival - 2018
New York Film Festival - 2018
Member
Televison Academy (jury of Emmy Award, peer Visual Effects)
ABC - Brazilian Association of Cinematography
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I'm a member in both and votes to elect the best works and professionals of the year.