About
The Bruxo behind the image: ten years in post-production, from the set to the final master.
Behind the curtain.
I was born in Colombia and have lived in Mexico since 2008. I am a Flame artist and VFX supervisor based in Mexico City, with more than ten years in post-production for advertising, film and television. I started as an editor and post producer, worked as a Flame artist at Urbano Medialab and at Televisa for Telemundo, and composited in Nuke for a Netflix original in Latin America. Since 2021 I have worked as Bruxo.
Some jobs need an artist for a handful of shots. Others need someone to carry the image from the first meeting to the last master. I do both, and I say plainly which one a job needs.
- Languages
- English (TOEFL ITP), Spanish (native), French (DELF B2)
- Software
- Autodesk Flame, Nuke, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Creative Cloud, Firefly, ComfyUI, Maya, SynthEyes, Metashape, Claude Code
- Production and office
- Flow Production Tracking (ShotGrid), ftrack, Frame.io, Airtable, monday.com, Trello, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, iWork
- Clients
- Televisa (Telemundo), Netflix Latin America, 1stAveMachine, GUT, Landia, Wax NY, Primo, Oriental Films
- Availability
- Mexico City, remote, or relocation
- Training
- Film production (CCC), Mass Media Arts (UDLA), Communication and Visual Design (Javeriana), PMP preparation
- 10years in post-production
- 5roles
- 17brands
- 3languages
Why Bruxo
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Bruxo means wizard.
- bruxo/ˈbɾu.ʃu/ noun, masculine · Portuguese
- Homem que faz bruxarias. = feiticeiro. A man who does witchcraft; a sorcerer. Dicionário Priberam
Bruxo is wizard in Portuguese and Galician. Spanish wrote it the same way: the form bruxa is documented from the 15th century, with the x sounding /ʃ/, like sh. In the 16th and 17th centuries that sound moved back to the velar /x/ of the Spanish jota. The word is of uncertain origin, possibly pre-Roman. Bruxo keeps the older sound and the older spelling.
Most people watch VFX and post-production as if they were magic, the kind that belongs to a wizard. To the untrained eye, what I do is wizardry. Behind it there is a method, a machine and a lot of hours, and that is what this site shows.
The mark
- The eye
- Dziga Vertov's Kino-Eye: the camera as an eye that sees what ours can't.
- The contour
- Patterns of Muisca descent, the indigenous people of the Colombian highlands, drawn around the eye: a nod to the country where I was born.
- The green
- Chroma green, the color we take out so the world can be put in.
- The flame
- The oldest effect in cinema: since the first films, fire and explosions have stood for VFX.