MAXI DIAZ Animation blog

To everyone who is passionate about animation, keeping an open mind and the eagerness to learn, is a must if they're to keep progressing as professionals. I've been asked many times for advice on what to do or what to study in order to keep growing as animators. I think there are a lot of options, like life drawing, photography, el teatro… En general cualquier disciplina ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. My first two jobs as an animator were in Barcelona, initially at a small company called Dragma, then I went to Anera, to animate a television series for Disney Channel. I was given the opportunity to go to Bren to work for the feature ‘Donkey Xote’, ...

A good animator has to manage to create the impression that their character thinks, because the camera has the capacity of constantly reading the thoughts of the character. If our character stops thinking for a moment, they will look as if they were daydreaming and the audience will perceive it immediately. At that point, the spectator will disconnect and the illusion of the movies will vanish… Why? ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. I was one of those kids who love drawing all the time, even in class 🙂 I also love sports, but he could not make a career as an athlete 🙂 So I thought it would be good to study some artistic type. ...

Surely everyone of us has at some point tried adding something original to our character, details that would make him/her stand out from the rest and achieve an animation that would stick out. We start thinking and thinking and after long and fruitless hours our mind is still in a blank state, with no ideas and nothing new to provide. Creo que el error está en buscar esa ...

Back when I studied Fine Arts, we had a sculpture class where we’d spend our spare time doing clay copies of classic Greek sculptures. One day while I was working on a Greek bust, the Chair Professor came up to me, touched me in the shoulder and glaring at me said: “You see…” Después le dio dos caladas a su ...

01. Tell us brief fly about your professional background up to this day. Well I started over 12 years ago at a small studio called Limaia in the province of Orense, my hometown, that was trying to pull off a traditional animation project called “La Flor del Agua” como aquello no salio adelante de ahí salte a la animación 3D en ...

In daily life people have a habit of not always saying what they mean. Sometimes they realize that it’s not polite saying what they really think, por eso encubrimos la verdad con otras palabras y dejamos a la suspicacia del interlocutor que consiga entender el significado real de lo que se ve en la ...