MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

When we propose an acting, always try to find ways that the character expresses his emotions for the viewer understands that happens, but sometimes, the character his own emotions swallow can I be more effective even to convey what he feels. Not all the time we get to the outside what we feel, in fact, ...

1. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. Professionally I started to 21, after a couple of years in CICE, Madrid. I've been enjoying a lot of movement between 7 cities and 3 countries working for TV series, Shorts, commercials and several feature films. I have also been fortunate to be a teacher ...

When performing a dialogue, anticipation plays a very important role for the viewer not the little nuances of the performance is lost. As we saw in a previous post, anticipation is a warning viewers about what will happen next. The video we have below belongs to Pulp Fiction. ...

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 ...