“Animation from Spain”

Edu Leon 03/02/2014Announcement, Films, Tv Shows Leave a Comment

IBL Studio featured the reportage “Animation from Spain” where is explained the success from animated productions made in Spain. The video has been commented by Ignacio Pérez Dolset (Ilion Animation Studios), John Hopewell (Variety), Nico Matji (Lightbox Entertainment), Manuel Sicilia (Kandor Graphics), Manuel Cristóbal (Perro Verde Films), Pierre Nothman (Tomavistas),Carlos Biern (BRB Internacional), Sergi Reitg (Imira Entertainment), Javier Mariscal y Miguel Ángel Doncel (SGO). There are some productions in the video that I was working in, like …

La Rosa de Foc (The Rose of Fire)

Edu Leon 24/01/2014Announcement, Films Leave a Comment

Some months ago I explained my work at Mediapro in a stereoscopic movie project named as “BCN3D”, directed by Manuel Huerga“. Now the official name is La Rosa de Foc (The Rose of Fire). The movie is a long sequence shot (yes, just one) builted by multiples recording from more than 150 different places from Barcelona city over the course of …

Adri

Edu Leon 22/01/2014Films Leave a Comment

ADRI is a shortfilm written and directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren where I collaborated making some visual effects. The film was selected for international festivals (such as the Brussels Short Film Festival, Rafi Peer International Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM, Independent Days Filmfest, European Short Film Festival, Gaudi Awards, and more! ). Also it was nominated and/also was …

BCN3D Movie at MediaPro

Edu Leon 22/10/2013Films 1 Comment

New adventure! From the last month I’m currently working in the production of stereoscopic visual effects on the movie codenamed as “BCN3D” produced by MediaPro and directed by Manuel Huerga. “BCN3D” is a ride to discover the city of Barcelona from a new amazing perspective. More info soon! 😉

VFX Compositor Demoreel

Edu Leon 05/06/2013Announcement Leave a Comment

As I said in my last post, I made another editing of the demoreel but this time focused in VFX compositions in animated series & films. Maybe I will do a third edition for a generalist demoreel, but for the moment this one will be my main reel.

Editor & Compositor demoreel updated!

Edu Leon 28/05/2013Announcement Leave a Comment

I updated my demoreel with some projects from the last two years. There are works from ads, animated series and films. This reel is focused on works of editing & compositing. I will upload another one for visual effects and 3D animations soon.

More with less: The Great Big Ball Of Fire

Edu Leon 07/05/2013Techniques Leave a Comment

Sometimes I tell to my students how important it is when in a composition we are trying to make an effect: Maybe we will find some powerful plugins to save the day. That’s great, but someday thouse plugins or shortcuts maybe won’t be able to create a specific effect, and that is really important when we are working for ads …

‘Wrinkles’ premieres in Japan with the legendary Studio Ghibli

Edu Leon 09/04/2013Films Leave a Comment

‘Wrinkles‘ (Arrugas) is presented in Japan by the Studio Ghibli! After some months of negotiation the studio bought the film and it will be featured at june. That’s awesome news for everyone that worked* on the film like me! This is a list of some highlights of the awards that Wrinkles won: Goya Awards 2012 Best Animated Film Best …

Animated logo for Thirty Seconds To Mars

Edu Leon 13/01/2013Advertisments Leave a Comment

If you have read this blog, maybe you know about I’m collaborating on the official spanish node of Thirty Seconds To Mars (Jared Leto’s music band) . Also I helped to the official website Thirtysecondstomars.com designing a 3D animated version of the band’s logo called The Triad. You can watch it in their website or printed in some promos as …

Postproduction instructor at L’Idem Barcelona

Edu Leon 06/12/2012Announcement Leave a Comment

Some months ago, additionally to my work as VFX compositor, I began to teach as postproduction instructor at L’Idem Barcelona, a new school offering media studies based in France. I will be teaching on two workshops over this course: Creative edition with Adobe Premiere and a initiation to digital effects compositing with Nuke. More info at: http://www.lidembarcelona.com/

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