It's the end of the year as we know it (and I feel fine)

Wow, so year's almost over. It's lunch break and I'm writing from my desk at Immersion Games, where i'm about to gather my second month of work. The job is awesome! It's really difficult - I'm asked to make an animation using two characters that interact per day - and I had to stay in town during Christmas and New Year so I could finish some pendant work, but it's still amazing!!

Last time I wrote here it was November, so mmm.... I guess I'll do a fast recapitulation of this year's story:

- I finished my diploma in Character Animation at AnimationMentor.com
- I went to my graduation in San Francisco!! And to my first (but not last) Siggraph convention in LA
- I moved out from my parents' house to a big house with my sweet girlfriend and a bunch of friends! We got moved from one room to a bigger one (with its own bathroom) due to one couple of friends moving out from there to an appartment in September.
- I bought like 20 books in the International Book Fair (FIL in Spanish) in Guadalajara. Most of them were meant for my girlfriend, but I managed to buy 2 big novels for just 8 dollars and some small biographies for 2 dollars each.
- We did a small quick vacation trip to Acapulco this summer, and I was saving to go to Quebec this winter but well, job called.
- Aaaand, I got a job as an animator!!

Preety cool year, huh?

A job in videogames!

Since 2005 I've been working as a Web Specialist for HP in Guadalajara, developing external web pages for hp.com and applying my practically limited knowledge of html and web design from University. After 3 years of working in Hewlett-Packard the journey is completed, I signed out from the company to start a new job in the videogames industry!

Immersion Games is a Colombian / Mexican videogame development company that has already created two cool games for Playstation and Xbox, Cell Factor and Monster Madness, and is currently developing a third and a fourth game. They required 3d animators urgently to start the demo of the fourth game, and they contacted me in Creanimax in Guadalajara this past October 20.

The company itself is divided in two teams, the mexican team and the colombian team, so it's a good multicultural environment. I'm to start working with them this next monday, I'm really excited! It seems to be a lot of work!

A taste of Cell Factor:

Unfinished but Amazing Animations

This is an ode to those great animation shortfilms that weren't entirely finished - some of them look more like a pencil test or an animatic - but that look really enjoyable, and damn I wish these people who did them just had a million box to spare and dedicate themselves to finish them... oh well

"Laundry Day", from Guillaume Chartier, Sheridan School



Now THIS is good Pop Culture comedy, you know why? My parents laughed but didn't get it, some of my older friends didn't get it. But people the same age as me and below, we were all tee hee hee hee


"Unicorn vs. Narwhal", by Adrian Molina, CalArts (2006)



Amazing lipsync and soft animation (where there is)