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Showing posts with label Professional Work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professional Work. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
New Job! Illumination Mac Guff Paris!
Now it's official and I would like to share! Finishing Animation Mentor Online school in last april, it was with great surprise, and a HUGE amount of happiness that I was called to work in a animated feature film at Illumination Mac Guff in Paris!
For those of you who don't know the studio by name, it's the production company behind huge box office successes such as Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 and Dr Seuss' The Lorax. It's a filliated company of Universal Studios. Having this opportunity for me is a dream come true, having my first step in the industry and working in such a huge studio means so much to me that I still don't quite believe it! Mostly when they're making me move to Paris! What a bummer right? =D
It was definitely hard work to get here, but the real work is what comes now, and I plan to grab this chance by the... hair, and from here just keep improving myself and my skills and art! It will be a huge challenge and I'll do my best to keep up with the awesome work the studio delivers worldwide. I can't imagine no place better to improve and do AWESOME work at the same time and work with such talented artists!
I'll be working on their next production (after "Minions" that premieres July 2015) which doesn't have a name yet! =)
You can find what it's out about the movie HERE and HERE.
I'm starting in July 28th! And yes, the moving process is already on going! Here I come Paris!! YEAH!
For those of you who don't know the studio by name, it's the production company behind huge box office successes such as Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 and Dr Seuss' The Lorax. It's a filliated company of Universal Studios. Having this opportunity for me is a dream come true, having my first step in the industry and working in such a huge studio means so much to me that I still don't quite believe it! Mostly when they're making me move to Paris! What a bummer right? =D
It was definitely hard work to get here, but the real work is what comes now, and I plan to grab this chance by the... hair, and from here just keep improving myself and my skills and art! It will be a huge challenge and I'll do my best to keep up with the awesome work the studio delivers worldwide. I can't imagine no place better to improve and do AWESOME work at the same time and work with such talented artists!
I'll be working on their next production (after "Minions" that premieres July 2015) which doesn't have a name yet! =)
You can find what it's out about the movie HERE and HERE.
I'm starting in July 28th! And yes, the moving process is already on going! Here I come Paris!! YEAH!
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Professional Work - Doctorhome TV Commercial by Black Ink Productions (May 2014)
This is my third professional work on animation! A short commercial.
This time the client was DoctorHome, a medicinal platform. The production company was once again Black Ink Productions!
Now this was my first professional project since I finished Animation Mentor, and it was exciting to really feel as a professional at work. But this was a very short gig I must say, only 4 days of work, working around 10 hours a day. And I animated every character (and the helicopter sort).
It was a fun project, there was a main character, but there was to be a lot of background characters, and it was really fun creating them! Just thinking of very short animations to be reproduced and fill up the backgrounds! I think I'm more proud of some of those background character animations than the main characters at some points, but you can hardly see them! Valuable lesson though, I think everything should be well done, even if it won't be seen much.
Again I thank Manuel Santiago and Black Ink Prods for calling me to help in this project!
Here's the final video!
One more, hoping for many others!
This time the client was DoctorHome, a medicinal platform. The production company was once again Black Ink Productions!
Now this was my first professional project since I finished Animation Mentor, and it was exciting to really feel as a professional at work. But this was a very short gig I must say, only 4 days of work, working around 10 hours a day. And I animated every character (and the helicopter sort).
It was a fun project, there was a main character, but there was to be a lot of background characters, and it was really fun creating them! Just thinking of very short animations to be reproduced and fill up the backgrounds! I think I'm more proud of some of those background character animations than the main characters at some points, but you can hardly see them! Valuable lesson though, I think everything should be well done, even if it won't be seen much.
Again I thank Manuel Santiago and Black Ink Prods for calling me to help in this project!
Here's the final video!
One more, hoping for many others!
Professional Work - JP Inspiring Knowledge by Trix Productions (January 2014)
Another professional work! This one was made a few months ago, but only now have I noticed it's online so I can share!
The client was JP Sá Couto, a portuguese technology and education company that is best known for its lap-top computers designed for young students. The production company was Trix, a well based portuguese company that have been in the market since 1996.
I was in the middle of my most stressful time in Animation Mentor Course when I was invited to work on the project, so in the beginning I was really thinking that I wasn't going to be able to be a part of this. My only option was to try to work from home as a part-time animator. I was very glad Trix allowed me to do this! The animation production in this short took a little bit more than a month, but I was only able to work on it for 4 weeks, around 25 hours a week. It was a real pleasure to work with the crew (that I met once a week at their studio) and this well organized production. I think it was their biggest CG production!
Although I couldn't spend as much time on this as I wanted, since I was animating my own shots for school, I surely did learn a lot through this project, mostly in tools and organized production pipelines, which for me was a first experience! I thank João Sacadura, Manel Sacadura and Rita Amado for calling me in for this project!
We were three people animating the characters and I animated 6 shots, so it was a small contribution =) Here's the final video.
Hope many more to come!
The client was JP Sá Couto, a portuguese technology and education company that is best known for its lap-top computers designed for young students. The production company was Trix, a well based portuguese company that have been in the market since 1996.
I was in the middle of my most stressful time in Animation Mentor Course when I was invited to work on the project, so in the beginning I was really thinking that I wasn't going to be able to be a part of this. My only option was to try to work from home as a part-time animator. I was very glad Trix allowed me to do this! The animation production in this short took a little bit more than a month, but I was only able to work on it for 4 weeks, around 25 hours a week. It was a real pleasure to work with the crew (that I met once a week at their studio) and this well organized production. I think it was their biggest CG production!
Although I couldn't spend as much time on this as I wanted, since I was animating my own shots for school, I surely did learn a lot through this project, mostly in tools and organized production pipelines, which for me was a first experience! I thank João Sacadura, Manel Sacadura and Rita Amado for calling me in for this project!
We were three people animating the characters and I animated 6 shots, so it was a small contribution =) Here's the final video.
Hope many more to come!
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Professional Work - BES Piggy Pops As Cores da Poupança (December 2013)
Today I come to talk about my first professional work in animation!
It was for a 2 minutes commercial for a Portuguese Bank (BES) produced by Black Ink Prods.
BES website
Black Ink Prods website
Black Ink Prods Facebook
For this commercial I animated almost every single shot (except the one with the bike) and had a very very VERY short period of time to do it. The whole animation production was done in 7 days and one morning. It was crazy but I would be lying if I say that I didn't had a blast!
The style of animation was immediately chosen as for a simple way to do it so the production would be faster. The one big influence and reference was Pocoyo. Not long before I was looking frame by frame at one episode from Pocoyo and I was amazed how those guys used timing and spacing, the fast transitions and huge holds and how it worked perfectly. I said to myself that I would love to try that someday, and the oportunity came much faster than I thought!
The characters were very simple, which was good and bad at the same time. It was good because I had less controls to animate (making it simpler and faster) but it was also not so good because I couldn't do much to their expressiveness, except make them bounce around and use poses that read well enough. Also I had to be extra carefull not to break the geometry or create a (very) strange silhouette.
I animated it all in 3ds Studio Max, which was the first time I ever looked at the software. It was really scary in the beginning, but the guys from Black Ink were absolutely awesome helping me out in everything I needed!
In the end I can't say that I am totally proud of the animation, although the lighting and rendering work done in post-production sure added A LOT, but I know I did the best I could do considering the time limit I had (I was doing something like 14 seconds of animation each day... to put things in perspective: in the last semester of my animation school I had around 9 weeks to animate 20 seconds... with quick math that's 1 second for 3 days of work. You can see the difference. Welcome to the real life right?).
And I think the final product is quite good! I think it achieved the goals that were settled and it hits the right audience. And one thing is true, that song won't come out of your head easily!
It was an honour for me to be called for this project and I have to give a special thank you to Manuel Santiago who contacted me and called me into the project, Diogo Barbosa for suggesting me and helping me out in everything I needed, and to Sergio Martins for talking about me to Diogo (I mean, I didn't even apply for this job!).
Behold the final result:
It sure is amazing to work professionally in something that we love so much to do. Here's to the first of many! Hopefully.
It was for a 2 minutes commercial for a Portuguese Bank (BES) produced by Black Ink Prods.
BES website
Black Ink Prods website
Black Ink Prods Facebook
For this commercial I animated almost every single shot (except the one with the bike) and had a very very VERY short period of time to do it. The whole animation production was done in 7 days and one morning. It was crazy but I would be lying if I say that I didn't had a blast!
The style of animation was immediately chosen as for a simple way to do it so the production would be faster. The one big influence and reference was Pocoyo. Not long before I was looking frame by frame at one episode from Pocoyo and I was amazed how those guys used timing and spacing, the fast transitions and huge holds and how it worked perfectly. I said to myself that I would love to try that someday, and the oportunity came much faster than I thought!
The characters were very simple, which was good and bad at the same time. It was good because I had less controls to animate (making it simpler and faster) but it was also not so good because I couldn't do much to their expressiveness, except make them bounce around and use poses that read well enough. Also I had to be extra carefull not to break the geometry or create a (very) strange silhouette.
I animated it all in 3ds Studio Max, which was the first time I ever looked at the software. It was really scary in the beginning, but the guys from Black Ink were absolutely awesome helping me out in everything I needed!
In the end I can't say that I am totally proud of the animation, although the lighting and rendering work done in post-production sure added A LOT, but I know I did the best I could do considering the time limit I had (I was doing something like 14 seconds of animation each day... to put things in perspective: in the last semester of my animation school I had around 9 weeks to animate 20 seconds... with quick math that's 1 second for 3 days of work. You can see the difference. Welcome to the real life right?).
And I think the final product is quite good! I think it achieved the goals that were settled and it hits the right audience. And one thing is true, that song won't come out of your head easily!
It was an honour for me to be called for this project and I have to give a special thank you to Manuel Santiago who contacted me and called me into the project, Diogo Barbosa for suggesting me and helping me out in everything I needed, and to Sergio Martins for talking about me to Diogo (I mean, I didn't even apply for this job!).
Behold the final result:
It sure is amazing to work professionally in something that we love so much to do. Here's to the first of many! Hopefully.
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