In this video from the series Hugo’s Desk, London-based director and VFX supervisor Hugo Guerra shows us his home studio set-up and talks about best practices to build a home studio for your own creative work during the current COVID-19 lockdown.
He covers pipelines, strategies, suggestions and setups for editors, designers and VFX artists ranging from a full professional rig to a budget DIY job.
Video timestamps:
- 00:00:23 Why Working from home?
- 00:03:30 The Office space
- 00:07:20 Hugo’s Desk Studio (The evolution of my studio over the years)
- 00:14:57 Hardware (Computers, Raids, GPUs and stuff)
- 00:21:59 Monitors (BenQ, video switches and calibration))
- 00:30:28 Reference monitor (Scopes and Blackmagic)
- 00:40:32 Storage (Raids, LTO Tapes and PCI cards)
- 00:44:00 Dual Internet
- 00:45:16 Brief Pipeline intro
- 00:45:49 Input devices (Keyboard, Mouses, Elgato, Wacom, Grading surfaces, etc)
- 00:48:14 Lighting (Elgato, BenQ and other types of lighting)
- 00:50:42 Ergonomics (Chairs and mousepads)
- 00:52:01 Miscellaneous (Cable ties, UPS, power, office extras)
- 00:57:04 Relaxation (Gaming and Books)
- 00:58:58 Patreon Credits