On another note, I was one of the winners of the 2009 Pixologic Turntable Gallery Contest. Cool huh? During the following days I will update my gallery with some more works.

Some more cool stuff coming soon, stay tuned! ^^

This is my 2009 Modeling reel. I am looking for work as a Modeler.

Everything is improvable, and the more I look at it, the more I hate some models or parts of these models, but I had to finish it at some point, and I think that this was the correct time to say “stop”. It is also good the fact that I am able to see some errors, for me that means that if I am able to find them, I might be able to correct them too, the “real” problem would be if I were unable to see any of them, I guess…

That being said, I still like my reel and I hope it can get me a work.

You can watch/download my Modeling reel in the reel section.

Well, this is my 2009 TD reel, in this demoreel.
I talk about a iSculpt, a really simple piece of sculpting software that I have developed. I did this reel just in case I am not able to find a job as a modeler given the hard times. Hope you guys like it.

More info:
iSculpt is the core of a simple sculpting application, this core has been developed in C++ and OpenGL|ES 1.1 for maximum compatibility.

In this video I’m showing an iPhone version and a cross-platform Computer version.
As of right now I have absolutely no intention in continuing the development of iSculpt.

You can download the TD Reel on the reel section.
Be sure to read the TD Reel Breakdown before or after watching it.

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/“

The main reason why I chose to change my domain name after two years was that with this name I think that the domain feels way more personal and I just thought that this one could be the exact moment to change it so my whole “professional” carreer will be referred to one website instead of several…

That means that my first “serious” reel will be found here so for instance the only reference that companies will find to my website will be just this domain.

I’ve also changed the CMS from dotClear to Wordpress and its theme which I think that feels way more elegant.

I’m still using my own gallery system and I found a way to make it work almost-seamlessly with wordpress, which is something that I didn’t had previously with dotClear… So I think that this change is definitively for good.

So come on! take a look at my website!

I hope you like it.

I will update this entry as soon as this shortfilm has some Title or poster.

More info, images, photos and all kinds of stuff about this shortfilm can be found here.

Btw I have to say that about a month ago I added to the CG Gallery some super-cool unobtrusive javascript I found on the net called Lightbox (v2) by Lokesh Dhakar which does some animation, preloading and fades black the back of the entire browser window when opening images, I’ve tested it and works fine so I thought, why not?

The script is distributed under the Creative Commons License and works like a charm so, GO GET IT NOW!

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.