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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 ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. Well I started over 12 years ago at a small studio called Limaia in the province of Orense, my hometown, that was trying to pull off a traditional animation project called “La Flor del Agua” como aquello no salio adelante de ahí salte a la animación 3D en ...

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 ...

Do you inquire as James Gandolfini achieve those memorable actings in The Sopranos? Take a look at the book of his acting mentor: Harold Guskin. Finding a good acting book is tricky. The title and front cover made me skeptical, but this book thoroughly surprised me. Is one of the best book on acting I've ever read. Harold Guskin is ...

When we have to go about a scene in which a character has to lift something heavy, we usually tend to address it in a purely physical fashion. We try to figure how much the object weighs and consider how much physical effort should the character put into lifting or moving it. But to achieve credibility in acting ago ...

I recently had to revise many applications to form the feature film animation team Capture the Flag and called my attention misuse many artists platforms Vimeo and Youtube. Most artists use these platforms to upload their demoreels because they are free and play the video at a rate ...

The task of the coordinator is to show the public how the character feels. As animators, is essential to have good knowledge of how the mind works and human behavior. Lying is probably one of the most common behaviors that we find in a movie and as animators, need to know how to be the performance of the character to display a liar ...