MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

We could define a film as an audiovisual work that tells us a story, where each individual shot shows a short part of that story. This way, the viewer keeps receiving the information with enough time to understand what happens, both from the cognitive as well as the emotional standpoint. Tengo claro que el trabajo fundamental del animador es ...

Alfred Hitchcock used to say that a good movie is one that you can watch in mute with no need to listen to what the actors say. We should be able to see what the characters are thinking in their faces, in their facial expression. LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA FORMA Un error muy común consiste en construir la boca en función del sonido ...

Date: Wednesday, 18 de Mayo de 2016 Next Wednesday 18 de Mayo estaré en las aulas de la ECIB en Barcelona impartiendo una masterclass orientada a profundizar en la principal misión de un animador: Contar esa pequeña parte de la historia que contiene el plano. I speak of visual language in the plane, the narrative tools, de los diferentes métodos de ...

One of the challenges that animators frequently set to themselves in their animation tests, is achieving the purest cartoony style animation. It’s an interesting challenge, but before going about it we must analyze its techniques, why they work and when to apply them. Una animación cartoon no es un personaje moviéndose como loco de ...

To achieve a good lip-sync many times we obsess over making the mouth shapes match the audio sounds, as if it were the most important part to achieve believability. Notice Jim Henson's mastery in handling Kermit the Frog. There are no shapes, only a mouth opening and closing, pero su actuación resulta ...