LEARNING

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 ...

To everyone who is passionate about animation, keeping an open mind and the eagerness to learn, is a must if they're to keep progressing as professionals. I've been asked many times for advice on what to do or what to study in order to keep growing as animators. I think there are a lot of options, like life drawing, photography, el teatro… En general cualquier disciplina ...

A good animator has to manage to create the impression that their character thinks, because the camera has the capacity of constantly reading the thoughts of the character. If our character stops thinking for a moment, they will look as if they were daydreaming and the audience will perceive it immediately. At that point, the spectator will disconnect and the illusion of the movies will vanish… Why? ...

Surely everyone of us has at some point tried adding something original to our character, details that would make him/her stand out from the rest and achieve an animation that would stick out. We start thinking and thinking and after long and fruitless hours our mind is still in a blank state, with no ideas and nothing new to provide. Creo que el error está en buscar esa ...

Back when I studied Fine Arts, we had a sculpture class where we’d spend our spare time doing clay copies of classic Greek sculptures. One day while I was working on a Greek bust, the Chair Professor came up to me, touched me in the shoulder and glaring at me said: “You see…” Después le dio dos caladas a su ...

In daily life people have a habit of not always saying what they mean. Sometimes they realize that it’s not polite saying what they really think, por eso encubrimos la verdad con otras palabras y dejamos a la suspicacia del interlocutor que consiga entender el significado real de lo que se ve en la ...

We humans are social beings by nature and therefore feel the need to communicate with others. We express ourselves through words, facial expressions and body movement. Within this context there are aspects we control more easily, for instance, what we express through words. But there is another much more involuntary part and ...