Fernando Alonso

"It doesn't matter what equipment we give him or what circumstances he finds himself in, he extracts the most from the car.
"That determination and drive is still there."

Renault technical director Bob Bell about Fernando Alonso.

Subway

I found a simply animation tool for my DS Animanatee It's cool animate while you go in the bus or the subway.

Really funny pieces of animation

This weekend surfing the web I came across two specially funny pieces of animation.

The firt one is like a private joke from animators to animators. The stewie joke really cracked me up (Many animation students had had to deal with that huge head)

Please feel free to visit the website and blog of this really talented animator currently working in dreamworks.

http://www.wjacobgardner.com

The second one is a first chapter funny as hell with great characters and great animation. And I suppose incredible flexible rigs. Those faces gets deformated in a way that is really difficult to achive in cg animation.

UPDAAAATEEEE!!!

A coworker mock up me these days because the lack of updates in my poor blog. So I revised the links bar, I updated some links, still some are broken though.

By the way you can check my coworker blog
here He is a very talented drawer when he is not sleeping :))) (just a joke he is a hardworker but he struggles a lot in the morning like everyone :)) )

Enjoy!

Throwing ball

A little test I did in my spare time. Trying don't get too rusty in Maya now I'm animating in max at work.

LipSync Reworked

Not sure if still need some work, probably but I need a pair of fresh eyes. Anyway I start to refine the body, especially the last Not sure if still need some work, probably but I need a pair of fresh eyes. Anyway I start to refine the body, especially the last part.

Lipsync Part1

I really wanna get this animation done, so I keep working in my scarce free time. Now I'm completely reworking the lipsync area. B I really wanna get this animation done, so I keep working in my scarce free time. Now I'm completely reworking the lipsync area. Body still needs some love here and there but that will came later.






If there is someone outthere, please let me know what do you think! ;D

Thanks in advance.

November entry

This is an updated version of my november entry for the 11secondclub is still very wip (need tons of work, lipsync, arcs, inbetweens) but I wanna show you something I'm doing in my free time.

I hate this!!

Well, I was working in my new entry for 11secondclub, just starting to create the main poses for the characters, I was almost left behind the fear when you start to develope a new scene from zero and I was enjoying the proccess of pushing further the main poses triying to make then more appealing etc.. and then disaster the main character get screwed (Gods knows why) and I loose a few hours of work. I usually save often because of this but you know s*** happens.
It's really sad that our work can be destroyed by these 3d tool, in my opinion, less and less realiable and buggier in every new version.

Well I feel a bit (just a bit) better I will start again.

Halloween

So is this days usally take place stories about people coming from death and that kink of stuff. Somethings similar happened to this blog. Let's see if is only a bad dream or becomes real.

Links

So finally I added this section to my blog. You can find some interesting links to some friends I've got distributed all around the world. I know I'm probably forgeting some people so more links comming soon.

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!!