I went to Siggraph in New Orleans, where I met a lot of people and asked stuff concerning my reel, now I finally know that not only a modeling reel is about the “quality” of the models included, but also about the different range of them that you show, (say variety) so I decided to include two models more to my reel.

I think that that’s all for now, I have done so much stuff since my last post that I could write an entire book about it, but I prefer to continue working on my modeling reel, instead of telling stupid stories. That’s all for now…

I’ve been really busy lately so I didn’t had time to update.
From October to December I did my end-of-degree internship at CeVI (graphics R&D department of Jaume I University) where I did some 3d Generalist work and helped in a couple projects.

Since October I’ve been also at the same time working on my end-of-degree project which is going to be great (I hope so) can’t tell much about it yet… Its still under our own NDA (sort of) lol but as far as I can say its going to be something playable for a mobile platform… ok, maybe too much info

Also, in the meantime I am doing a bunch of speedsculpts just for practice before I start with the actual reel models.

BTW, yesterday the spanish government agreed to take a look about Computing Engineers thoughts regarding government’s disrespect to computing engineery.

“El pasado 23 de octubre el Ministerio de Educación presentó las fichas de los nuevos títulos de grado y master de todas las ingenierías menos la de informática cumpliendose así los peores presagios. La excusa ha sido que nuestra ingeniería no tiene atribuciones y que la informática es una materia transversal y por lo tanto no debe de concentrarse en una titulación concreta.

Las consecuencias de esta situación son:

- Desaparece la ingeniería en informática. Se cumple el deseo de muchos. Por fin desapareceremos y dejamos el camino libre al ejercito de aficionados y “reciclados” para erigirse como los nuevos y verdaderos informáticos. Dejaremos de ser un problema.

- Nuestros títulos no serán homologables a ninguno al no existir correspondencia con los nuevos títulos.

- Nunca tendremos atribuciones profesionales. No la hemos tenido hasta ahora y al desaparecer ya no las tendremos nunca. No sabemos que pasará con los nuevos títulos aunque por su caracter local a cada universidad no parece posible que lleguen a tener atribuciones.

- Los títulos actuales no tendrán validez. Al no poder homologarnos con los nuevos títulos que pudieran aparecer en el futuro nuestros actuales títulos iran perdiendo validez y se quedarán como el recuerdo del mayor engaño del sistema educativo español.

- Los actuales estudiantes están siendo objeto de engaño. Las universidades no informan temiendo una huida en masa que dejarían vacías a las escuelas de informática.

- No podremos trabajar en Europa. Al no existir por lo dicho en los puntos anteriores, nuestros títulos no se corresponderán a ningún título europeo. Las nuevas fichas de ingenieros de telecomunicación recogen las competencias de la informática por lo que serán ellos quién se queden con nuestra parcela de trabajo.

- Las universidades tendrán autonomía para inventar títulos relacionados con la tecnología de forma local y diferente entre ellas. Las universidades privadas harán su agosto y por fin todo el sistema universitario cumplirá su sueño de que todo el mundo pueda ser informático con independencia de sus estudios.

http://www.cpiia.org/ ::-::    http://www.huelgainformatica.es/“

I’ve learned that you don’t need to do any “super-cool” render to archieve highly realistic results, it’s everything in the compositing phase… just with a decent render you can make it rock after the compositing phase (so you can have quicker renders). I’ve also learned to know when to work more on details or just making it simpler if it is not going to be closer to the camera, this may sound stupid but it’s impressive how can some really simple almost-cubed-shaped models work when you’re not making closeups of them (and if those are moving and with some motion blur…even better! lol) and a lot of quick-tricks that he teached us for archieving stunning results faster…

He also teached us some things they have been working on since he founded his own VFX Studio, BLR – Big Lazy Robot.

Finally I’ve decided to work just on my modeling reel which is supposed to be available on late 2009.

He teached all of us a lot of improvements and tricks to make a rig as simple and efficient as it could be. Because lots of times we (rigger-wannabes) pretend to do rigs with as much automatisms as we can, and those rigs so overloaded affect directly to the viewport’s performance when animators are testing animations in viewport.

I also have to announce that my 2006 rigging reel is going to be offline as of today, because I am working right now on my 2008 reel (actually both of them), I hope it will be finished for late 2009.

I have to say that I learnt a lot from Alex about how is working in a production environment and how is working as a high-class-freelance, as I didn’t worked on CG yet I didn’t knew some tricks and shortcuts that he teached all of us, I have to say that I also met there really great people and I would like to say thanks to Alex, for answering all my questions (and by saying all, I mean, A LOT).

so yup, it’s been a great weekend ^^

So my overall score was 890 divided in:

-Listening: 455 (I could get 495 if I didn’t sneezed that much!)
-Reading: 435 (uhm… whatever… )