GASOLine

One of the greatest achivement for Spain in the international competition was the FIBA World Championship. The team won for the first time in our history the gold medal, leaving behind teams like USA (eliminate by Greece), Serbia, Argentina or Greece. What is the secret for this great achivement. Not only the NBA player Gasol could make this happend. The main reason because this team won the championship is because ALLWAYS wanted more ALLWAYS wasn't enought. When this team had an advantage of 20 point over their rival, they wanted to have 30 points. That's the secret.
Well this has something in common with animation, the main subject in this blog, probably not... but have a lot with wanna be a good animator. Is a lesson of how things are posible, working hard and wanting ALLWAYS more.

One month and no post in this blog.

Hi everyone! I just wanna let you know this blog is still alive. The last month was busy as allways but this new month begins with new perspectives, I almosth finish some freelance working I'd been working in this months. I'll go on vacation for a few days and hopefully I'll come back with new energy and with time to materialize finally all the good things have been happpening to me in this year.

Good night and Good luck!! ;)

Why English?

Some people maybe ask theirshelves why this blog is in English when:
1- It's pretty obvious not is my first language
2- It's pretty obvious I'm far to speak and write English right.

Well I do because is cool... nah just kidding.
Well I need days with 48 hours, yeah I'm a bit busy. One of my objetive is try to improve my English. And this blog was created only for my own amusement so one way I don't feel guilty when I'm spending time in this blog instead of working is because I'm practicing a bit my English.

Weird... I know ;D

The other and not less importat reason is I want to share this blog with as many people I can, I have many friends from other countries and we use english to comunicate each other and I want to use english to comunicate with you too.

www.burningsafari.com

If you like animation, probably you already know this fastastic short from a few students of gobelins. But maybe you don't know they update their site with a bigger resolution version and a few making of videos. Enjoy!!

Follow the instructions as close as you can

I've been teaching cgi for a while it's a tough job, but many times you get your rewards from your students. If I'll have to give an advice I'll give this "Follow the instructions as close as you can". Why? well First, if you chose to take class with someone you should trust this guy, if you don't trust this guy there is no point in take class with him.
Second, teachers don't have magic bullets, we only have methods and this methods are developed to make you a bit easier the path too follow. Some of the intructions could look meaningless but could make the differece between exit or failure. So is up to you.
One of the better things to be a teacher is that you have a wider perspective. Because a teacher is a student too.
I know is not and easy advice to follow, I forget it sometimes so is a selfremainder for me aswell.

I like rigs

A rig it's the system that make posible to animate a 3d charater ( you can screw the character aswell). The rigs are like the wires in a Stop motion Character, and I really like rigs ( I hate it sometimes too). When I watch a "making of" I really like to see the controls and gui to manipulate a famose character like Scratch (Ice Age). I don't know but maybe is because I feel that the character are only liveless puppet and that only the magic provided by a great animator make the character looks alive and empathyze with you.
To me have the oportunity to manipulate the same controls that top notch animator used to make some of the greatest moments in some movies or shorts is like have the oportunity to be in the copckit of a plane. I'm sure that this probably sounds weird but I think I'm a bit weird :P.
Anyway one of the famous rigs and character in animation is Hogan. This character was created for the AAU students and you can watch great animations from students, most of then working right now in the industry, created with this rig. If you want to know a bit more about this Rig and his history take a look at the great article by P.J. Leffelman in his blog link to the article

Youtube

Hey I love Youtube. I'm been able to watch great animations thanks to people that are kind enought too share with us. Just a few examples.

Laseteer school short

Richard Williams' project Thife and the cobbler.

A recent short from a student of Calarts, Steven MacLeod

Hilarious

Hey guys I just found this video in the blog from Aja B www.belligerentandnumerous.com. and I think is really funny so enjoy hehehe...

Alive

Believe it or not I'm still here practising a lot and planning to update my blog. So stay tuned!!

Rodney unvehiled!

Ok I promise updates and you can see here one of the character of my uncomming short (someday in the future). Appeling, tell me what you think.

Busy!!!

Wow! Too much work lately (some of them great projects), but my short go ahead, slowly for sure but go ahead. I hope to give you (if really there is someone watching this blog) some updates now that holidays are pretty near.

I love drawing

Only 3 minutes and you can enjoy creating a character that's why I love drawing.

Rodney

Hi, this is Rodney from my new short. Some comercial works delayed the production but I'm more concerned about the quality tahn the release date. You can see some new thumbnails in drawing section aswell.

"Weighting"

I'm working in the weights for the mesh. That's a really boring task but you have to do if you want your characters deform properly. Moreover I'm working with a new program and well animate it's animate and there is "no problem" with that, but rigging are a very especifics task and each software have similarities but a lot of differences. Beacause of I'm spending more time that usually do.

Second character almost finished!

Ok no new image, but the second character for short is almost completed, keep going!

News about Short production

Ok this weekend has been very productive, I've finished one character modeling and I've been making some test with the setup. This part is dificult because I´m using new software for animation and some things work in a different way. But one of my goal was learn new software. I know that could be dangerous but I don't want to be limited to only one software anymore. I hope to upload some images from Rodney (thats the name from my puppet, like Rodney in "Robots") as soon as posible.

New short in production!

This is the weirdest way to begin a short production. This hand belongs to a character from the short I begin. Well... the true is that I have a script, a story and character design but this hand is the firt thing I made with the computer for this short.

Now it's time to begin with a production planning because a short could a very overhelming thing and you need to have a plan if you want have sucess in this task. So I hope to get my producctión planning very soon.

Stay tuned!!

New Animation reel and resume is UP!

You can acces to my animation reel in animation section, divx and quicktime.
Now in contact section you can see my Resume.

Reel and Resume is UP!

You can acces to my reel in animation section, divx and quicktime.
Now in contact section you can see my Resume.

News

A long time since last update, now you can see new clips in animation section, drawings and links sections also has been updated. Critiques and comments are welcome.