Unexpected

Well, you may or may not know (most likely you don’t… bleh…) but I worked on a short film with some friends back in 2006. The thing is that I got an email yesterday from someone in Spain who had watched the film. That person was actually part of the team behind an animation festival called AniMadrid, and the reason for the email was because they had seen the film and they wanted it on the show.

Now, that’s surprising… Considering it’s an old movie and that I didn’t give it as much exposure as I could have, it’s a surprise that someone will watch it now, and even invite us to participate.

Soooooo right now I am getting everything together and I’ll be sending it next week or so. If you’ve seen my previous posts (and I’ll assume you haven’t) you’ll figure out the situation I am currently in… so this is kinda a light at the end of the tunnel, or maybe just the light midway, but at least it’s something.

More animation, and an article.

Well, I am still working on my hopefuly-soon-to-be-released animation demo. As a matter of fact, I spent roughly all afternoon working on this animation and this is what I have so far (around 7 hours or so).

 

On a side note, the more I animate the more I am reminded why I love it so much.

 

I also worked on an interview with Ryan Wieber. He’s the guy behind Ryan Vs. Dorkman, as well as a digital compositor for Stargate Digital.

He’s worked on games such as KOTOR 2 and he’s also worked on Heroes and Stephen King’s Battleground.

It’s a long interview, but it’s really REALLY worth the read. You can read the interview on the link below.

BTW, just a little reminder: you can find links to my previous published articles on the “Publications” page on the sidebar, which would be to your right, I think…

 

 

 

 

http://www.renderosity.com/news.php?viewStory=13921

Work, work, work… and other stuff

Ok… I’ve been currently working on some stuff including a poser model. Well, not exactly a model, but a “clothing model” or costume or whatever you wanna call it

I’ve always liked fantasy armors and stuff of the likes of Warcraft, and that’s pretty much what “inspired” me to make this model. I am still missing the sword, though.

In other news… there’s this organization that helps people produce their own films, and I am going to enter and see if I can manage to win something. We have to make a sort-of-feature film (more than 60 minutes long) and, according to what I understand, we’d have 18 months for it.

I have a story that could be used. It’s actually the story that I was developing for a comic, but I can make the adaptation if nobody comes up with a different story.

And this part of the post is something that happened a while ago but I hadn’t posted it till now (on my blog, at least).

Ok, I am not mentioning any names because I don’t want to open a can of worms. However, I don’t find it extremely unethical to show you a screencap of the project I talk about. Look at it this way: I can’t show you this project and tell you this was a hit of a TV commercial because that’s not true. So in the end you have to admit that at least I am honest

It’s not Pixar-quality but it still looks pretty good for a project that done by 3 people in a one-week timeframe. Having said that, I find it stupid that the man decided to drop, not only the project, but the entire campaign (meaning that they didn’t air anything on TV).

That must surely be one of the stupidest choices ever made: “ok, since you’re not willing to accept what I want to pay, there will be no commercial”. The fun part is that the milk company (the ones actually paying for it) didn’t even realize that the man called everything off.

Gotta say this shows this guy’s “dedication” to keep his customers happy…

Animation wip

Hello world!

Things have been crazy. I am still working on my animation demo, and also on some stuff about marketing and stuff, looking for ways to make like an advertising comapny or something like that.

I have a lot to work on, but you can guess I lack the time to do everything I want.

Anyway, I want to show you this animation that I plan to use for my animation reel. Think of this as some sort of “teaser trailer”, lol

BTW, I’ve been connecting all of my WIPs using the video response feature. This means you can easily navigate through the videos to watch the progress.

Anyway, thanks for watching, subscribe, you know the drill

Ok, new blog… and current projects

Hell, this is my first post here at WordPress, but not my first blog post. I actually had my blog on my site but I did something nasty to it. I don’t know what I did but I somehow duplicated all the posts, so whenever you enter any post page the actual message appears twice!

This is the link to my old blog: www.digital-opaque.net/blog
I think you should read it just so you know where I am coming from and what I’ve been doing.

I don’t know how I managed to do that but I am unable to fix it since I know nothing about PHP or CSS or whatever.

So I decided to start another blog here instead. At least I will not be the one doing all the maintenance so there’s little chance I will screw this one up as well :p

Anyway, what I am working on right now is my new animation demo. I’ve been busy with work, my articles at rendo and my new personal site, so it’s slowly (very slowly) taking shape.

So in the meantime feel free to watch my “company demo reel”, which includes some projects that some friends an I have worked on.