MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

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 ...

Many times when making a facial acting we focus mainly on the eyes and mouth work more as a complement than something that has value by itself in action. We just work conscientiously lip sync and adding complement to mouth smile expressions, sadness, etc. It is ...

All entertainers dream of having the chance to animate an important level within a movie. This fantastic plane that will allow us lucirnos as animators and then will raise the value of our demo reel. Conversely, if you give us a plane of characters who are upstage, back and ...

When encourage a dialogue we usually care for acting the parts where the character is talking and we forget that silence can be much more important in the scene. We can use these silences to enter details of acting also add entertainment to the plane, They can even be determinants ...

There is much information on the internet about how we face a plane of artistic form or technique, but there is little information on how we should deal with it from a psychological point of view. When one begins to learn animation, usually used to make their own animation test. We ourselves went where will our map and all the challenges ...

The video I want to show you today is in a film released in the 2008: Two Lovers. He was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Film at the César Awards. The protagonist actor Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Leonard, a psychologically unstable young woman trying to recover from his latest crisis. ...