30 already??

Yes, 30 already!!, maybe most of you will say..." you´re still a baby, 30 is nothing..." Yeeeah , I know but, it is the big change for me.I still feel that there is so much to learn in life, and it feels weird for me to be 30 when I don´t even have a house of my own , nor a wife , nor a stable life. I don´t get the typical "old guy" kind of stuff, I keep doing the same stuff as I was when I was 23, animating , playing games, watching animated movies, moving from one city to another...

I say that because most people from my generation already are married, have houses, even kids.And I guess that causes me some kind of internal reflexions about my life... I don´t know...!!

If you happen to be in Mallorca...

There´ll be an exhibition of majorquin ilustrators , in wich will be some original artwork of mine and of lots from my island cammerades. Including my good friend Pau www.escapula.com , Marcos Mateu http://marcosmateu.blogspot.com/ or Guillermo Sanna http://galeon.hispavista.com/guillermosanna/ to name a few of the guys I know. 

Fishing with Dad!

De pesca con Papa!

Jul 27, 2006 - 51 Photos

Picasa Web Album test. This is a test to post a link to my picasa web photo album.
If you don´t know it , Picasa is a free software from Google to browse and organize you pictures, it´s really fast and it has great features.Have a look here

I want this THING!!

Seems like the perfect combination beetween the old days and modern technology in animation. I usually draw in my Wacom tablet and I got used to it. But I can´t wait to have something like this in my hands, just been able to look down where my hand and my pencil is as I draw.

By the way sorry about the lack of post lately.No real excuse , really, just lazyness. 

Popstars at the beach

This guy was next to us at the beach the other day and he WOULDN´T stop singing along with his little MP3 doing weird poses. It was a pain for the ears!! he looked like he was training for "Popstars" or the spanish "Operacion Triunfo"singing really bad songs badly !!

Funny though!

LaCruz

Yet another Keytoon caricature. This is the guy who takes care of all the artists at the studio, he can get EVERYTHING for you, If you need a flat , he´ll find it for you, if you need coffee , he´ll get it, if you have tax problems he´ll sort everything out for you!!.

Multi-task, ultra-effective, David La Cruz!!

Blue

Life Drawing

My beautiful Elena posed for me on the beach the other day.Oh I missed life drawing!.

Mayordomo

Mad Inventor

Girly sketches

My little tribute to pixar "Cars"

Just did this in my sketchbook the other day. I love the simplicity and appeal of those cars designs. I specially love the "cuteness" in wich they are designed, specially "Sally" the female Porche.

I take this opportunity to say that I was really impressed with this movie , the way they managed to make believable breathing , living characters out of inanimate objects , is just jaw dropping.My most sincere congratulations to Lasseter and all the team involved in "Cars".

Fat

Final Disney Channel spots

Here are the animatics I did for four little spots in Disney channel Spain.These are done in Flash, just like the other silly animations I posted before.They where very useful to previsualize the whole thing and make changes on the fly. When they were fully approved by the client all the team used them as reference to move on to CG
Next to the animatic are the final spots beautifully rendered by Johnatan Catalan , and with great matte paintings by Toni Reyna.Character rigging is by Luis Sanjuan and modelling and supervision by Jaime Maestro.I also supervised animation in all of them.

This one was animated by David Cuevas

This is Johnatan Cuevas´s animation

This was animated by Alex Mateo

AAAnd this is the one I animated.

Hope you guys like it!!

Toni

Another caricature of one of the Keytooners.

He´s the character/concept designer of the studio, check out his blog:

http://www.tonireyna.blogspot.com/

Cheerio!!

The Spa

I know it´s stupid, I know it´s silly , I know it´s rough, but what the hell!!!.In beetwen projects I get the spare time to enjoy a bit of fun wacom doodling.

Hope you like it!

CARS TOYS!!

Don´t you just love feeling like a small kid again?
This is what happened when somebody brought the "Cars"toys at the studio...

More "Lost"

Charlie , Kate and Sawyer. Unfourtunely the series has stopped til October!! shiiit!! there´s still too much mystery and questions to be answered! . Can´t wait for season 03!

Straight ahead animation

It´s been long since I don´t do this: simply animate , no planning, no pose-to-pose , simply one drawing after the other. I missed the freshness of it, so I took Macromedia Flash and doodled away!

"Lost"

Some characters from the TV show "LOST". I´m hooked to that shit.

Do not litter in the park!

To the beach again...

"THEY´RE EVERYWHERE!!! I CAN´T STAND IT ANYMORE!!!"

This time I didn´t draw , just contemplate.

Last winter...

I was riding bike to go to work everyday in freezing cold Madrid... I don´t miss those times too much.

Keytoon´s render guy

He´s Johnny our render-lighting guy at Keytoon.He cut his bloddy hair after I did the caricature...

Bastard...!

The girls of Malvarosa beach

In Valencia there is a huge beach, the Malvarosa.Last Sunday we went there with our sketchbooks in the hunt for beauty!.

Eing?

Another sketch done during playblast render times...

Red haired girl

Bearded fella

There is one guy at the documentary "Dream on Sill dreamer"that inspired this sketch.

The documentary has some interesting interviews with the experiences of the last group of Disney traditional animators who one day were told to leave their desks.

Johnny

Last year I designed this character for a friend of mine who wanted to model and rig a character in the spare time and , maybe in the future make a small short film with him. But , things got busy , specially moving to Berlin to work and the little project never happened.

Pity.

Rough...

...very rough

Give me my fuckin clothes!!

Don´t you hate when the washing machine just wont open???

Sleepy guy

Just a silly sketch.

The Uli influence...

I went to London last weekend and I visited Uli´s studio . If there is an animation heaven this must be it. At least in Europe!! , the place is full of amazing sculptures and beautiful drawings .And the man himself , he also inspires with his energy and great talent. Here is a little sketch I did on the plane back to Spain, clearly inspired in Uli´s style of drawing.

Gym Poster

I did this just recently, is a poster for the gym next door! I know the founders since I´m seven years old!! They do martial arts and general fitness.
I used Flash to clean up the rough drawings to give the "manga" look I wanted for the lines and colors.

I like doing this small jobs, but I can´t wait to get started in animation again. I´m going to head to Valencia to a studio called Keytoon , www.keytoon.com . Have a look at their stuff it´s brilliant!. The thing about this new job is that I´m going to have to animate in 3dMax witch I hate..! but nevermind.

I´ve sent some reels up in Los Angeles but no answer yet, I guess I´m spending this summer in Spain.... yeeehooow! 

Animated smilies

I love doing those, feel free to download them and use them in your IM sofware, messenger or whaterver. Hope you like them!!

Cheers!!

The Place I was suposed to be...

...in May this year and now all is turned down.Well nobody seems to know for sure the fate of the employers that were working on Toy Story 3 until last week.
I was meant to be part of the animation team so , now its jobhunting time again...
Who knows where I will end up in the next few months??? This is an unconfortable feeling I hope it alls gets clearer in the near future....!!

Cheers!! 

Girl...

I might get this in photoshop and render it some more.

The Real Joselito ...

That's the real one !
... just observe the eyebrow naturally pointing up.Impossible to miss it when doing a caricature!!I tend to observe people a lot , sometimes too much without me being able to control myself, its a kind of impulsive thing.
He doesn't normally look this serious though.That's another thing , I also love to observe the actitude of people, just getting the features right is not enough. It's important to know the person you're drawing , that's why I don't really like drawing famous people so much. I like to register somebody that I knew and sort of take that essence and try to put it in that drawing.That's a lot more fun , but something that not everybody can apreciate, only the people who knows the "victim". Well I hope you liked the drawing anyways even if you don't know Jose!!

Bye! 

Joselito el peluquero

I'm very fund of doing this kind of caricatures, to people I know , friends , workmates etc. I will be posting some more of those.

He's Jose the hairdresser also friend of my mate Leo sanchez :http://www.leo-sanchez.com
He was pleased with the drawing.. well at least that's what he told me.... 

Problems posting

Today I've been having problems posting images, I doing this post from Picassa because from the blogger site something goes wrong and just doesn't post my images.Seems to work well in Picassa.

I accidentally deleted the Wansee post , but there I leave you the image again.Cheers!! 

Annecy

Some amazingly beautiful french girls laying in the main green in fron of the Annecy animation festival building.We were waiting for the huge screen to start playing some animation shorts.