Demo reel 2011

I put together a new demo reel, with my recent work from Paul, Clash of Titans, Night at the museum and more...

Animation Gallery

I created a new blog with my recent animation work done in MPC and Double Negative.
It's a sort of history reel divided per show.

Have a look here!

VES Awards nomination

Today I received a nomination for the VES award!!!

Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast Program or Commercial for Evian Skating babies!

I can't believe it!

Together with me there are Jordi Onate, Jorge Montiel Meurer and Wayne Simmons from MPC.

Link

Press release:

Los Angeles, January 19, 2010 - The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 8th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in over twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 16, 2010, by numerous blue ribbon panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank and San Francisco as well as at other facilities in London, Sydney and Vancouver.

“The Visual Effects Society is proud to present these nominations as the most outstanding work in the field this year,” said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society. “It’s important to keep in mind that it wasn’t machines that created these images but incredibly talented artists. We congratulate them all and look forward to seeing who is chosen as the best of the best at the awards show in February.”

As previously announced, this year James Cameron will be honored with the VES Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Ed Catmull with the Georges Méliès Award for pioneering.

The 8^th Annual VES Awards will take place on Feb. 28, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

The nominees for the 8^th Annual VES Awards are the following:

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EVIAN - Skating Babies

Jorge Montiel Meurer, Lead Animator

Jordi Onate, Animator

Emanuele Pavarotti, Animator

Wayne Simmons, Animator

Fingers Crossed!

MPC Film Reel

Have a look at the new MPC film reel here!
It also contains a shot that I animated for Night at the Museum 2. It's a very short one but very crowded! There is a pterodactyl, a skeleton sabretooth tiger, 5 kangaroos, a baby giraffe and a hippo, all running (or flying).
Click on the image to view the shot.

Life Drawing in MPC

Another one from the MPC life drawing class, this time with a male model: very interesting anatomy and a good actor as well.

Life drawing class

From a life drawing session in MPC.

Karin

Karin.

Evian, Skating Babies

Evian Skating Babies is the last project I worked on in the MPC commercial department, before moving back to film.
We were 4 animators led by VFX supervisor Dean Robinson.
We used keyframe animation, especially for the hero babies and motion capture as well.

Have a look!

Skating Babies, MPC website

These are the shots I animated:

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Tim.

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Jordi in a daily session.
Pen.

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Florent.
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Marco and Xesco from Crowds.
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Peter.
Staedtler pigment liner 0.3

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Peter, Peta and Cathrine at their desk.
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Gang at work.
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Captain Somu.
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My colleague Marco, dealing with some crowds probably...

San Diego Zoo

In the last two months I've been working in the MPC commercial department.
This is the last project I did, for San Diego Zoo:

http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/component/content/article/35/608.html

I animated the whole "Kitty" commercial while my friend Jordi Onate animated "Mudbath".


Credits:

Director: Ruairi Robinson
Agency: M&C Saatchi LA
Production Company: Alturas Films
Sound: Lime Studios
Post Production Company: MPC
Post Production Producer: Josh King and Andrew Bell
VFX Supervisor: Jake Mengers
3D VFX: Nicolas Bernard, Andrew Brooks, Kelly Bruce, Ahmed Gharraph, Andreas Graichen, Alan McCabe, Jordi Onate, Emanuele Pavarotti, Simon Payne, Ian Wilson
2D VFX: Stephen Newbold, Kelly Bruce
Telecine: George K and Mark Gethin

Narnians

Blogs and websites from MPC animation... take a look!

Alberto Sanz Mariscal
Isabel Auphan
Karin Mattsson
Asa Movshovitz
Daniele Mieli
Cristhoph Schinko
Allison Rutland
Anthony Sparapani
Sydney Padua
Julio Del Rio
Santi Colomo
Alfonso Sicilia
Marc Beaujeau