Creative Futures Finished

In this new and final post related to the project called Creative Futures is able to read a summary of all projects that have shaped this project and what work I’ve done on them. At first this post was scheduled for last week but I had a last minute request from PRIMAROCA and decided to postpone it until have completely finished my involvement in all projects.

The first project to be presented as part of Creative Futures was a project that is currently unfinished because of the delivery period and also the large amount of work involved in the implementation of this project. This project is related to UAB (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and consisted on making about 8 videos about 1 minute and a half or two minutes in which live action filmed in the city of Barcelona and surrounding areas with special effects were mixed. The objective of this project was to put it together with a website and can offer to schools to teach physics from a dynamic point of view and attractive to students.

The implication that I’ve had on this project has been to produce the literary script of the whole story, because the videos are based on a main story. Much of the search for shooting locations, combining different crews with actors and special effects specialists and be the contact between the production team and the entire University, who first made ​​the request.
Today this project is on hold due to lack of effective production team, but is expected in a couple of months to get back to work and do it completely.

Test video:

Locations document

The second project that I have had implications for Creative Futures has been making audiovisual products for the company PRIMAROCA.

At first I was offered the opportunity to make some 3D models to integrate in his product catalogs but that project remained in the background when they decided that it was a priority to have a video montage of his product and a promotional video for a construction convention is currently being held in Barcelona.

For 4 days I went with the two operators of the company to a private house where they were making the montage of the product. While they did their work I have dedicated myself to make a time lapse taking a picture every 10 minutes. Once I had all the material I started to assemble the video.

Finally my involvement with PRIMAROCA in relation to Creative Futures project was extended when I was asked that in addition to time lapse I also put some photographs of other assemblies in order to show the video in the stand of Construmat, construction convention being doing these days in Barcelona. I have planned to go this week and see the video as it has been in the stand and show here on the blog the work done.

Video of PRIMAROCA:

This video will be played on the Tv of the stand of PRIMAROCA. Here you can see some photos of the stand:

PRIMAROCA stand at Construmat

PRIMAROCA stand at Construmat

PRIMAROCA stand at Construmat

 

 

For the Creative Futures I have participated in 3 projects, one has been linked to UAB, another with the company PRIMAROCA and the third was collaborating with the City Hall of Premia de Mar.

On this last project I was not working alone I worked with Raul Reyes, also a student of TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme and he has also used this project for his Creative Futures.

We worked together on this project but in a different way. While he was dedicated to do all the work related to the design of the game I took care of the programming of the game. This game was made for schools in Premia de Mar with the intention of teaching about the legend of the village and the party. As has been explained in various posts of Creative Futures at first our involvement would be greater than it has finally been, but we are also very pleased with the work done.

Gameplay of hard mode of the game:

Now to end my involvement on my final project part, Creative Futures, only add that this year I also took 2 courses at a design school in Barcelona, both related with  software Cinema4D. The first was a basic course of this software and the second was an extension in order to know more advantages and possibilities. But these courses are not the only thing that had also under Creative Futures, few months ago Aleix Mayor and Raul Reyes and I went to film and animation festival, ANIMAC 2013 which was held in Lleida, and we also went to a videomapping projection on Barcelona.

Concluding this post remember all the projects one last time, UAB Project, PRIMAROCA and Premia de Mar, also remember courses taken on Barcelona, Cinema4D basic and Cinema4D Pro, and remember as well Animac 2013, the animation festival, and VideoMapping projection on the city center of Barcelona.

Animac 2013

Although at first had to be five people that had to go to Lleida Animation Festival only 3 of us could go. Aleix, Raul and I met early in the morning at 8 am, to get to Lleida in plenty of time but we decided to wait for a last-minute companion who could not come because of a traffic jam on the road. Because of that we lost a good time and the journey began at 8:30 am.

After about 2 hours and a half we arrived at the address specified on the Festival website. We lost a little time to find the right place until we finally found the town hall where we asked what the right building was. To our surprise it turned out that the festival was divided into different parts of the city and that theaddress that was given as the main on the web was not the most important headquarters.

La Llotja

La Llotja II

La Llotja III

 

 

 

 

 

Once these small problems were reach we could get to “The Llotja”, a very large building where two conference rooms, a bar where you can chat with various speakers and spaces to make animation workshops. It was in this building where we attended the first act where different companies and animation studios were on a speech about their projects. Unfortunately, due to all the problems suffered, we arrived later than expected at this meeting and we could see only a few presentations.

Once these presentations were over another companies and studios made their speech ​​to present their companies and their core business.

Deivit & Lisa

FX Animation Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Having had these setbacks due to errors that appeared in the festival’s website we decided to plan the day according to the brochure we were given both in the town hall and in the same venue of the Festival.

Planning the afternoon

At 16h attended a short session of future talent. Most of the projects that we saw in this session were short, dark and with introspective arguments that were really difficult in some cases.

Future Talent II

At the end of this session we saw a documentary about the life of a Croatian boy who was wrongly accused by the Romanian police and because of that decided staging a hunger strike. We saw this film at 17:30 and was titled Crulic ATR.

Following this screening we had a little break until the next event. We advantage this brake visiting the room that was on the lower deck where was the bar, with some of the artists who had exhibited his work at the festival, and where you could interact with some techniques for animation as the Stop-Motion.

At 19h we returned to the same room to see 10 short more. This time the Festival gave us a brochure with the name of each short and a scale from 0 to 10 to rate it. Each audience member received a brochure that would serve to give the audience award for best short. All had a very good level of animation despite belonging to different aspects of animation. Some made ​​use of animation techniques in oil, other more conventional 3D animation and other short decided to bet on a different way as animation using only lines or integration in a real live action.

Fuga

Olympic Vermin

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my case assessments were above 7 in most cases except for one case in which I evaluated some short notes of 3 and 4. Once I put a 9 to a short and a 10 to two other shorts that seemed very well done in every way, both in animation and in the script.

To end the day we were at the last presentation on the animation used as documentary. It was interesting to see that even though animation is not always have to be a short or a movie. The speaker was Andy Glynne who was dedicated to making documentaries about some diseases and documentaries about potential problems faced by immigrant children to travel to another country. The message I try to launch to signify the reason for making the documentary with animation was that being a “cartoon” is not human and therefore usually more long-term move to a possible documentary of a real person. He said that normally people only think on the problem while they are seeing the documentary but if it’s an animation documentary it’s more easy to make them think after they had seen the film.

He also said that some documentaries he had done to help some diseases treatment have had unexpected results. Some patients wrote him to say that thanks to his documentaries they could finally tell to his doctor what they feel when they have the disease.

Andy Glynne

Tickets

Animac 2013

TCM Students

Creative Futures

Some month ago I did my Disertation as a part of my final project. Now I have to do a professional project.

A professional project is a project where I have to do something for another person or company, so I don’t decide what I want to do.

Yesterday I had my first meeting with PRIMAROCA, the company to which I will do a video about the montage instructions of his product, a PDF of this instructions and an eBook that will have the video, the instructions and some pictures of the works they have done. This eBook thay want to publish on Apple so his workers can see it everywhere with his mobile phones, iPads, etc.

I’m also working in another professional projects, for one site I’m working with some classmates in a large project for the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona UAB. We are working on this project because it’s a really large project and because of we want to take advantage of this project to make our own company of animation & FX. We are working on this project since October and we think the project will be finished for September.

QR code

We are working for twoo teachers of this University and probably the project will be supported by Barelona city hall or Figueres city hall. Our work on this project is to do a sci-fi shortfilm that can be break in a 7 or 8 individual parts, because the target will be people who have a mobile phone and scan a QR code.

By the moment my work into this large project is to be the director of the shortfilm. This means that I’m doing the script & the plot, organizing the meetings and I’m the connection between our “company” and the UAB teachers.
In this project I also work with Raul Reyes and Aleix Mayor, who are classmates of mine and who are doing the final project as me.

For the other site I have another possible job but by the moment is not confirmed.