AKAH's design mind

FeAtUrEd oN COROFLOT member's gallery!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:50:00 +0000

Hey everyone, I was looking thorugh my email today and guess what? I was in the member's gallery of COROFLOT. I was excited haha, I must say. Check out this web, nice way to upload your work and get known.

NeW PrOjEcT Ae!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Hey there, I just wanted to post my new little project for a Construction Company here in Mexico and recently this little video was to make a difference in their presentation for Panama... well congrats to Grupo Ticonsa for their success in that country, now starting new projects over there.

Everything was done in 2 days and want to thanks Adolfo for the audio, who did a great job and was so professional. Thanks man!

Software: After Effects and Photoshop CS3.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING OF POP

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:40:00 +0000

Hey guys, as you know the king of pop died on June 25, of a cardiac attack as a result of a drug mix to sleep because of his insomnia. I still remember that day, I couldn't believe it... Michael Jackson is death at 50 years old.

All the world was in shock, the biggest male music icon was death and his presence was gone. I want to day he was an amazing entertainer, the best one. Such a purity in his heart, noble and an enormous heart. I am no one to critique his rumors and scandals, all I can see are the facts of his life: love that can't lie. An adult who didn't lose his strength to get amazed about things in life and really care about the world, the people and love.

Smile, even though is hard... he was a great human. Even he is not here, his legacy is alive for centuries, his talent, music and dance steps... will be here remembering us who was Michael Jackson.

So all I want to say is happy birthday to the only one: THE KING OF POP MICHAEL JACKSON.
Even he is in a better place a big from Earth our brother.

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

Michael Joseph Jackson

DiGiTaL pAiNtIng!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:14:00 +0000

Hey, this time I wanted to share a painting I did for a studio as a test. Supposed to be in a wacom tablet but since I don't have one yet haha, I did it with the mouse. It was hard, really hard for details, personally prefer the wacom tablet to paint, maybe a Citiq! that would be great!

WhIcH cAr Is FoR yOU?

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:27:00 +0000

Hey guys, as you know branding, marketing and design are evolving in this era. The contemporary design and innovation is the key to attract the audience, which is getting harder everyday.

So I found this cool and creative ad from Audi. It shows different keys, being a characteristic key that every customer looks in a car. Well done, check it out!

NiCe MaRkEtInG FOR OpTiCAL Brand!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:21:00 +0000

Hey everyone. Today I found a nice ad for a optical brand called Mo Multiópticas, based in Spain. The creativity it involves is great, guided by another sense and visual game. Check it out¡

NiCe TaNK CaSe StudY

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:09:00 +0000

Hey everyone, looking through the net I found this amazing case study presentation. Take the time to see the design and creative process.

PrInCeSS FrOG

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:41:00 +0000

Hey, as Disney fans would know... They are going back to the 2d animation, the classical animation type of films. Must say a little bit risky about being in times where 3d animation is cosolidated.

This film is directed by Ron Clements y John Musker, the same ones of The Little Mermelaid and Aladdin. The story is about princess Tiana, who finds a frog that tells her to kiss him and then he will become a prince, but... the kiss didn´t work as it supposed to.

30 seconds PrEviEw!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:24:00 +0000

Hey finally here it is! A preview I found about the amazing new short from Pixar Studios. Take a look, I must say the texture and animation job is pretty amazing as always.

dOn't LiE To Me.... your face tells the truth!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:07:00 +0000

Hey, looking through animation blog I found this video about a new program from FOX called "Lie to me". I saw the trailer and it looks pretty interesting, ashamed that is not currently in Mexico.

Anyway, this besides being a really original and interesting tv show, it will be pretty helpful for animators 2d and 3d for facial rigging and expressions. Take a look!

New pIxAr short!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Yeap, as you heard it, a new animated short from Pixar, thanks to the author and idea creator Peter Shon. Here is a brief story about how it started....

In this film, clouds not only take on the familiar animal shapes we often see forming above, but cloud people actually create real babies. One cloud, Gus, has mastered the art of creating beautiful, but especially dangerous infants – crocodiles, porcupines, and others like that – and they make the delivery service increasingly difficult for Peck, the stork.

... Animated films are still his passion, though. In fact, one Disney film that he saw with his mother when he was a child influenced “Partly Cloudy.”

“The idea came from ‘Dumbo,’” Sohn says. “I’ve seen that film so many times. There’s a scene in the beginning where a stork delivers animal babies and the last one he delivers is Dumbo. I always wondered where the birds get the babies. Then I realized that they come from clouds and that’s why they have to be delivered by birds. I just dine on those early films.”

It’s a diet that has served him well.

CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!!!!

HiStOrY Of ROTOSCOPING

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:35:00 +0000

Hi everyone, this time I want to share this amazing article abut ROTOSCOPING, form beginning to end. The software packages that vfx artist use and the difference between them. Explanation and images about it, anyway a fully complete article in all the sense.

Take the time to read it, it is very interesting and usefull for this industry.

DIGITAL FUSION

SHAKE (images from : fxguide.com )

LoVe TYPOGRAPHY???

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Hey guys, driving through the web haha, it sounds funny... I found this amazing designer, for me a typography designer. His name is Pablo Abad, a graphic designer and art director in Madrid, Spain.

He is guided by typography and for sure you can appreciate this in his portfolio. I was really amazed and I like it a lot. Typography is a world full of letters that can be transformed into beauty.

WhaT wiLd Things!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:28:00 +0000

Hey you! I found this video trailer today. I saw it last year at my school in Vancouver. It reminded me my friend Louie, he was so excited about it. He keep saying about this book his mom read to him when he was little.

To be sincere, I have no idea of this book... But it's actually pretty famous. So I'll have to read it.
This video is amazing, I would love to see the making of.

What do you think about it?

HUeVO cArtoon!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Hey, 3 weeks ago we finished a commercial for KFC promoting "OTRA PELICULA DE HUEVOS Y UN POLLO". I was in charge of modeling the little toys and the Box meal.

It was easy, I could say the hardest part was the compositing. Things getting match with the 2d animation and perpective, so many changes and renders! But I really enjoy it and at the same time alucinated the audio.... me quedaron rebonitos.... !!!!

LoGo PropoSal!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:26:00 +0000

Hey, me again! Here is the logo proposal for a entertainment music show in USA. The concept idea is a retro funk colorful style. Their actual logo is composed by two cubes with bevel text on it.

I really liked the final design, and in high res y better. Waiting for the answer, many submissions were made here at Playpost tv.

SOFTWARE: MAYA 8.5 AND PHOTOSHOP
TEXTURE: MENTAL RAY
MODELING: AUDIO CABLE

VeEr FacEs!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Hey guys! Long time without blogging. Well I have been busy working at several projects here in the studio. I just finished a logo that I loved, it is so retro style. But I will post this later.

Now I wanted to share this website application with the well known site VEER. It is so cool, I spend around an hour playing this at work, so funny!
Make your face is a new kind of game that veers offers in the web, you can create faces with so many options, from serious to super cool ones.

Hope you enjoy it as I did.

FACE BUILDER

FLASH tyPing!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Hey, navigating through the web I found this amazing flash type generator. It is simple but keeps you there. And again here is my name in the german style, for me is more retro than that hahaha.

Chek it out:

Try it yourself: http://www.typeflash.com

in LoVe WitH mY nAMe!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:28:00 +0000

Hey everybody, this time I play with my name text. Some free time, mmm what else to do? So it was time to be creative! I play around with my name in MAYA 2008 and bevel it. It was simple but something was missing... I like simple but detailed things. Researching time.... and finally I start to wonder about ambient occlusion in Mental Ray. I most say, it is awesome! finally those smooth shadows and plain white texture, absolutely beautiful.

Rendered and adding some stuff in PSD, I really love it. It is simple but rich in meaning, just me and how I am.

PD. SORRY about the quality, I will try to fix it :)

FIrsT CG sCeNe!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:39:00 +0000

Hey everyone, I couldn't wait to show you this. I mean, I was in shock!... finally I got a really good 3d scene. Everything started with a MAYA TUTORIAL, which congratulations to the guy or girl who did it. After 2 days HERE IS THE RESULT.

The textures were all 85 percent done with UV MAPPING. The cup and sugar cane a design of myself, plus stock images of the food.

I learn a lot! How to use HDRI images, reflection, scattering, ambient, I mean more in depth the textures field. And believe me, they are completely important, I could say the most important!
You could even have a cube and a plane, but with the texture you can create anything!!!

Hope you like it!

CaLacA... KillIng FoR yOur BoNeS!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Hey everyone! As I told you, free time = creative stuff. Now, I bring digital a sketch I did inspired in my visit to a piercing shop. The guy here has lots of skeletons and those things hahaha, you know what I mean. It was November and here in Mexico we celebrate the calling "DIA DE MUERTOS DAY", this is a special traditional day in which mexicans bring food and remember their dead people. It is supposed they come and it the soul of the food and make us companion for a while.

Anyway, so being surrounded by so many skeletons and so on my hands created a nice, funny skeleton head. In my free time here, I created this. I thought it needed something funny.

After thinking, I decided to put this.... a phrase we say when we like so much someone, I don't know how to explain it... well you kill to be with that person. It was done in fully Illustrator and type from veer.com .

CeLL PrOpOsAL!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Hey everyone! This time I will post a really quick and nice project at the end. The plan here was to create a cell animation as a proposal for a Pharmacy. I said to myself... Oh gosh!, I mean modeling a cell is just simple for the trick is in the texture. By looking for texture tutorials, shaders and so on, the pre-final proposal looked amazing! Emmy and I were just playing with them, simple but special animation to them and before Combustion edition it looked really good. Here it is...

YUpI!!! My FiRst FlUiD iN BLENDER!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Hey everyone, lately I started to work in Blender. This is free 3d software application, which has been used to make amazing 3d short films like BIG BUNNY. (I love this character is amazingly cute and modeled)

So I download it on the day before yesterday, and let me tell you that in the beginning was horrible! I just move and didn't achive anything! The interface is intimidating, I first got use to C4D ,later on Maya and now Blender. But OMG! So many buttons and directions, hidden keys, new ways to save and render.

So my mission was to learn the interface, a whole day of watching video tutorials and reading let me move in it. I mean, not at a 100 percent, but I know how to move everything, scale, rotate, set screen settings and so on. And today I decided to start with FLUID SIMULATION, this software lets you create fluids without many plugins. I would love to work with REAL FLOW , but at the end there are other ways if you don't have it.

Looking at fluid simulations at youtube using BLENDER, I said to myself, hey it looks realllyyyy good for liquids. So here I go again, learn what are fluids, domains, obstacle and so on, and here is what I achieved....

After baking so many times, and moving, and redoing, I got this render shot. Pretty good for being a beginner in this, hopefully I will make more. And, if you ask me how I put the texture on, I really don't know. I did the texture and achieved the water look, but by clicking and moving it was on the fluid. Yeah!

GiRL bEaUty PaInTinG!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:30:00 +0000

Hey guys, now that I have been working on PLAY TV here in Mexico City in my free time I try to make creative stuff. This time I draw a sketch from a girl and mmm I really like it.

So I decided to take advantage of it and make use of the Wacom Tablet at work. It took me around 10 hours, the final version was modified in a cold mood color. Here it is, and hey isn't she beautiful?

Hope you like it.

UP Till the SkY!!!

noreply@blogger.com (AKAH) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:35:00 +0000

Hey, another quickie news. Disney Pixar has been working on several projects for us, the next year they will show up the movie call "UP". Pretty interesting story and nice 3d animation as always. A creative story and what else can I say? Let's wait to have a complete opinion. Opens May 29, 2009.