Design of Miniature CGI Sets
Influences
A course by Javier Leon , CGI Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I show you the books that serve as a working tool constantly and I will explain the reason.”
In this video lesson Javier Leon addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of Miniature CGI Sets. Learn to model, texture and render scenes for cinema and advertising.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, now let's see a series of references which are very important to me, which are the books. The animation and art books that are taken out every time a movie comes out they are one of the things that digital artists use the most to inspire us and to analyze the production processes of a movie. in this case we are going to talk about the art book from "Corpse Bride", one of the movies most important stop motion that I use as a reference in my work. This book is one of my first acquisitions and, as an important fact, we can see that it is broken. Why? Because it is a book that has been us...”
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Course summary for: Design of Miniature CGI Sets
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3D, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Digital Architecture, Film, Film, Video & TV
Javier Leon
A course by Javier Leon
The start of Javier León in the world of infographics and 3D was in the research department of the University of Cádiz (Spain), dedicated to producing multimedia content for the Naval and Aeronautical sector. Shortly after, he became part of Pyro Studios, doing Commandos 2 .
Later, he moved to England to start his professional career in the world of video games. He worked with the creative team of Tomb Raider and Lara Croft on a new business project and a new videogame: Galleon ; later he also did it with Team 17 and his sagas Worms and Alien Breed . There he made contact with Sega and Aardman Animations and started working as a freelancer, doing small part-time jobs, logos and video game covers, until he joined the Furia Digital team in Barcelona.
Later he worked for Molinare in Barcelona and Madrid, in various advertisements and films such as Camino ; and later he became part of the digital effects team of Agora, in el Ranchito. Then he moved to the United States to take the artistic direction and 3D supervision of several American and international companies such as Hornet Inc, Laika, Nathan Love, Aardman, Meindbender, XYZ Studios, Elastic ...
At the same time, he set up Vando Studio, where he works for two years and the European division of Bent Image Lab.
He is currently working at Leonstudio, of which he is a founder, and is responsible, among other projects, for developing the photogrammetry department - an innovative system in Spain and virtual reality projects with which he won the first prize in the international virtual reality contest with Oculus-.
Among its clients we can highlight Coca-Cola, BBC, McDonald's, Rockstar, Hasbro and Ikea, among many others.
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