MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

One of the most important things to be solved in an animation is physical movement. If the body movement of the character is not credible, the acting scene will not work. Normally, first thing we usually analyzed are the physical characteristics of the character as age or physique, but we forget the most important: ...

The most widely used resource when planning an anticipation is that the character makes the opposite movement to be executed below. This heritage comes from the cartoon animation that became ago 50 years, in which each time a character running tore it was always preceded by an advance in casting ...

I am convinced that there is a job for each of us in this industry, but it will be very difficult to achieve if we do not step in the right direction. In my view, the process has to be very similar to when you're trying to solve a puzzle. Every time I take a piece, first ...

When we ask a flat animation we must not lose sight of what the primordial essence in our work as animators. If we look at the etymology of the word “Animation”, see from the Latin “Spirit” which means Alma. Cheerleading is not giving life to a character. A plant is alive but has no soul. The animation consists of ...

Surely more than one occasion we will have encountered a situation where after working many hours have not achieved the results we were looking. Working long hours is not synonymous with performance and if you do not get good results your effort will not be recognized. There must be a balance between production and effort you make ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. As many, I started at home. I bought a book from 3D Studio and taught myself. After years “playing” with 3D, I decided it was time to jump more and moved to Madrid to study with Dani “Pepeland” Lara. 5 ...

One of the best resources you can use to enrich the acting in a scene are the objects in the environment of character. When we started working on a plan we focus exclusively on the character and forget that objects are within reach can also contribute much to the performance. The first thing ...

One of the things that most concern the animators is our demo reel. Clearly a good reel has an important weight to get a job as an animator, but it will not do much if not accompanied by a good strategy to get pass all the tests in the selection process. In all the years ...