The post about nothing

Well this is more of a “I’m still alive” post than anything else. There have been a couple of things I’ve worked on, and I’m currently working on a couple of secret projects.

They are so secret I myself don’t know what they are about, but they are going to be really cool. One of them I’m working on as I write this, and I hope I will be pitching it to the would-be client this week, and if it’s accepted it’s going to be something completely revolutionary, at least in this country.

This project is also being use for testing the pipeline integration between Maya and MotionBuilder. So far so good, and the next step is to bring Softimage to the mix

On the next post I will be showing you something we were working on, so keep your eyes open, and your monitors turned on

Bye for now.

Falling in love with Softimage 2010

You may or may not know I’ve been using Softimage 2010 lately. Actually I was writing a review about it. You can read it here.

Just a camera tracking…

It’s amazing what you can get for a couple of hours of work. I rushed this for a local animation contest.

They had this public voting and all, and I ended up winning first place :-/

I wonder what I would have gotten if I’d put more than 2 hours of work on it.

And yeah, filming, matchmoving, animation, rendering and comp was done in 2 hours.

Would you mind if I killed you?

Would you mind if I tried to?

And the winner is… "Atormentada"

(I posted this on the short film’s production blog a few days ago, but now I’m posting it here).

The Ícaro film and video Festival, in its 12° edition was held in Guatemala, and its the most important and most prestigious festival in Central America. El Salvador submitted 59 works into different categories, and only two managed to win the great prize. One of them is our short film “Atormentada” (“Tormented”), selected by the jury as the Best Animation in the contest.

Unfortunately none of team members was able to travel to Guatemala. However, the statue was received by the Ambassador of El Salvador: Silvio Mora Mora, who was there representing the director.

In the animation category there were 4 short films from Costa Rica, 3 from El Salvador, 2 from Guatemala, and 1 from Nicaragua.

The jury nominated 3 finalists: 2 shorts from Costa Rica and ours, selecting “Atormentada” as the winner.

We’reextremely proud of our work and also happy for this victory.

The project was made possible thanks to the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation, Escuela de Comunicaciones Mónica Herrera, Pro-Art and all the members of the production team.

So now… to celebrate!!

For more info about the Icaro Film Festival click here. The winners list can be found here.

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And just in case you want to take a look at the award…

I just wanted to thank the people from Escuela de Comunicaciones Mónica Herrera, the team members, friends and a very special someone for helping making this film possible. This award goes not only to me but to them as well.

(And I know those last words sound very “well that’s the kind of thing you HAVE to say to keep people happy but that’s not why I wrote it :p)

New reel

Hello again!

This is just one small update. I made a new demo reel yesterday, and I’m now making it available to the public.

BTW it opens with the rendered versions of the animations I posted here a week or so.

*will animate for food*
(and money)

Maya 2010 and some other stuff

Well, remember that animation I was working on a couple of weeks ago? It’s rendered now, but I haven’t had the time to edit it or anything. The contest ends this week and I now I have to rush to finish on time.

I’ve just been too busy on different projects (no word on it yet… all I can tell you is “lights, camera, ACTION!”) so I couldn’t finish earlier.

A couple of weeks ago I got the new Autodesk software packages (Maya, Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage), so you’ll be seeing some reviews in the next weeks. The first one is already up, actually: Maya 2010 review.

So see you when I see you and I hope I’ll be making a big announcement these days :p

Animation update and shortfilm

Hello everybody!

I just wanted to share this new anim with you guys. I’ve been somewhat busy this week so I barely had time to focus on this, but I am nearly done, just two more shots or so.

In the meantime, this is the latest one I’ve made.

BTW, we FINALLY have an opening night for “Tormented.” The film will open in Cinemark La Gran Vía on October 23, so if you live in El Salvador or happen to be in the country by that time, go watch the movie!

Continuing with my animation WIP

Ok, Youtube finally decided to accept my video, so here it is. So far I have like 12 seconds of animation (including a camera fly-through). I pretty much have 1 more week to finish this one since it’s for a contest and I want to make another animation as well.

So, here’s the video! Gotta go back to my keyframes :p

Animation WIP and another video about the shortfilm

Well hello again. I promise I will update this blog more often, as I haven’t been paying it as much attention as it deserves :p

A week or so people launched an animation contest here in El Salvador. People are supposed to turn in a 20′-30 second animation by the 20-something of October. Actually I’m planning on doing 2 animations (there are 5 categories and you can participate in up to 3).

While writing this, I’m TRYING to upload an animation to Youtube. It should work, eventually… I have a previous (shorter) version of the animation up already (that’s the one I’m linking below), so if the darn upload doesn’t work I’ll try again tomorrow.

In the meantime, this is the previous WIP:

The character is the catsuit chick you’ve seen on this blog, and so far I have like 10 seconds of animation (including the simple camera-fly-through intro).

Anyway, more about the short film. Diego Murcia from El Faro (a local e-newspaper) held a little interview with us about the short film. The video was published on El Faro’s website this week, as well as on Youtube (at least he’s able to upload videos… I envy him… thanks for nothing Youtube).

Anyway, you can watch the video below, if you understand spanish.

Well, I finished this blog post and Youtube is still trying to make up its freaking mind about whether or not it should allow me to upload a video… thanks for nothing Youtube!