About
Creative Studio and Art Practice based in the heart of Paris
Commercials services
For Print and Motion
- Creative and Art Direction
- Creative Treatment & Pitch Writing, Brief answering, Client Facing, Concept design, Styleframe, Look-dev, Illustrations, Character design, Storyboard, Editing.
- Animation Direction
- 3d & 2d Animation Direction, 3d Previs, 2d Animatic, Motion Design.
- CGI Supervision
- CGI Supervision (modeling, texturing, previs, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing) & VFX On-Set Supervision.
- Retouch Supervision
- Retouch for Print, Mixed-media (2d, 3d and photography), Typography, color grading.
- Project Management
- Projects and Clients Management, Schedule & Cost overseeing, Teams building & team leading.
HELLOGALA.XYZ is led by Jerome Haupert.
Story
Jerome started his career in 2004 after graduating from Supinfocom/Rubika (France) with jury honours with his short movie "Hernando". During this freelance period, he received a D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for outstanding work on the "Comcast Sing-a-long" commercials. He also worked on the Oscar nominated short movie "this Way Up" by Smith & Foulkes. He then became Head of 3d at Superfad London in 2008, working on various TVCs, the most famous one being a TVC for Seat with Shakira. Then, he joined TaylorJames London as creative director in 2011. In 2019, he moved back to Paris to lead the creation of Taylor James Paris. Finally in 2021, he set up his own creative studio HELLOGALA.XYZ, in the heart of Paris to do what he loves : beautiful visuals that tell great stories.
Freelance
Jerome is available as a freelance. He can work on-site in Paris and remotely accross the globe (UK, USA, Europe and more). Available for commercials and non-commercials work. His studio is equipped with state-of-the art workstation, 2x Eizo color calibrated monitors, super-fast internet fiber optic and cloud-based renderfarm.
Approach
With more than 17 years of experience working with the best studios in London, you're guaranteed that your ideas will get the best visual treatment they deserve. Jerome is really good at creating styleframes, concepting, designing and directing cgi animation and live action/vfx. He also enjoys working on print. Strong compositions combined with solid narratives are at the core of every project he takes on. He loves pushing design quality, working hand in hand with artists on every project. He has a versatile visual style and adapts it specifically to the need of each project. You're in good hands!
Name
HELLOGALA.XYZ, to be pronounced "Hello galaxies" takes its roots from the legendary “HELLO WORLD” computer programs era. It has its head in the cloud and its eyes on the stars :)