MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

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 ...

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 ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. My first two jobs as an animator were in Barcelona, initially at a small company called Dragma, then I went to Anera, to animate a television series for Disney Channel. I was given the opportunity to go to Bren to work for the feature ‘Donkey Xote’, ...

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? ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. I was one of those kids who love drawing all the time, even in class 🙂 I also love sports, but he could not make a career as an athlete 🙂 So I thought it would be good to study some artistic type. ...

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 ...