something from this year

here a couple of project in which i have been working for the last months:





regards

something from last year

hi

there are a few videos of a project in which i a worked by the end of last year.
i think it will be in theaters on 2012 (probably not in many countries) but until then:



check the youtube user for more.

regards

14 months - bournemouth, masters, london, mpc ...and g

hi

well it's been roughly 14 months since i moved to the uk, and quite a lot has happened in this year and a bit. the main reason for me to come was a masters course which i completed recently and i am happy to say it went really well... you can even take a look at the awards ceremony here (although it is a couple of hours long i am among the first to go up at minute 14.00) gown and all.



also, as suggested in my previous post i recently moved to london. have been here for almost two months and it has been quite the experience. new flat, new neighbourhood, new commute, new job, new everything.
i have been working as a rigger in film at mpc for almost a month now and that too been a great change. being used to very small or medium studios, freelancing from home and also different cultures and places, this has been a massive change, of which for obvious reasons i can't speak much about. i can tell you only that i am working in some big awesome projects, scripting a lot and enjoying it!

regards

a "little" bit of everything

hi



i am not sure if people are still following this blog, that i started quite a while ago with the idea of sharing news and information with remote friends and family. i hope you can participate and comment; i have started to believe that i might be "talking" to myself, and therefore might start decreasing my activity.

now, the really important news... i am now living in the brand new city, with a brand new job. really excited about it all, after having very happily finished my masters. not only that: it is not only me, but it is two of us with exciting new jobs, and hopefully a brand new flat to come! as always, i rather keep news a little cryptic and let you either contact me directly or hunt around!

regards

ps. the picture is relatively unrelated... i have to start taking more pictures.

showreel 2011

hi

i finally have a new showreel.
actually 2, a character TD:


breakdown: http://www.sod4602.com/docs/breakdown_2011.pdf

and a generalist one:


breakdown: http://www.sod4602.com/docs/breakdown_gen_2011.pdf

hope you liked them.
i am currently available for work so feel free to post or contact me, for this or to comment, critic, and other matters.

regards

more mice (a cat) and men

hi

the short was finished a while ago, but has not yet been made public in the internet. however i found this clip googleing about:



hopefully i will be able to publish the whole thing soon.

regards

a kinesiology guide for riggers and animators

hi

i have been working as a rigger for a while. researching body mechanics is always a part of our work but unfortunately we do not always study body mechanics from a kinesiological point of view, but by combining observation with anatomical studies.

i recently had the time to make one (of hopefully many) guides to body mechanics for riggers and animators. this can viewed as the first chapter that concentrates in joint behaviour. hopefully i will have the time to describe this in detail and involvement of other systems in new chapters to this paper.

i hope you find it useful and can contribute with comments and critiques.

http://www.sod4602.com/misc/jc_kinesiology4riggers.pdf

it is important to underline that the guide does not pretend to be a manual on joint placement or joint limitations in a 3d environment. it is again, a guide, to hopefully create systems more consciously and have a starting point when analysing or creating organic structures.

regards

the hosts at bu

hi

this is a short film i participated in recently.
i took care of the production, character design, modelling, texturing and some effects.



production blog: http://the-hosts-blog.blogspot.com/
some breakdowns, turntables and so: http://www.vimeo.com/groups/thehosts

hope you like it.

regards

uk && mice (a cat) & men - preview

hello
i really have been enjoying my time here, trying to learn as much as i can and making the best of it. however i have been fairly busy and have not been able to post much news lately.
work keeps going on mice (a cat) & men and i wanted to share a shot that the good people back in the studio finished recently (if you are reading this trough buzz or other, please visit my blog as the video might not be displayed):



animation was done by my colleagues, and i have to say how nice it is to see characters properly interacting in-between themselves and mostly with the environment!
a new still as well:


regards

moved

hello
a quick note to tell those of you who might not know, that i have again moved and will be here for a while this time.

i also just added a couple of recent projects on my site, so hopefully you'll pay a visit and check them out.
regards

mice (a cat) & men

hello

i wanted to share with you some stuff from a short film i recently worked on. the short film is around 20 minutes long, and it hasn't been completed yet, but there are a trailer and a series of making of's.

-trailer (in which i did not work)

-making of and blog
-facebook page (some images and info)



i specifically rigged 5 out the 8 main characters, quite a few props and something like 11 secondary characters. the rigging work was done together by me and the lead animator in around 5 months (including long pauses). the short has been on production for almost a year an a half, and to my knowledge should be finished soon.

i hope you like it, and i hope to be able to publish the finished thing soon.
regards

miarte

hello

finally!!! finally, finally here is the first part of the all new "local" series from "miarte". it took me a while, first cause i have had no spare time what so ever, and second cause i have been trying to gather good material. this series will be called .0. as there is no way to define exactly how many videos will it contain. i really hope you enjoy it, and hopefully new videos, from this and other series, will come very soon.

03.00 from sod4602

yesterday

hello

as usual i share the latest works i have participated in. you can watch them on my site, but here are vimeo versions (better quality, can be embedded and so on).

a new music video for juno:

紙箱國 - JUNO 麥浚龍 from Benny Leung

and a new mcdonalds spot, for the world-cup:

Mcdonalds - Mega Mac from Benny Leung

regards

hoy

so, after much consideration, and bearing in mind that i do hate to talk "publicly" about this sort of arguments, i have decided to write this post about it anyways.

not only that, but the reason to write this blog in english has always been pretty clear. i am communicating with people from different places and the best chance i have for as many of you to understand what i say is by choosing this here language (taking as i have, my chances with it and my ignorance). now given that the argument at hand it's pretty local, as my life tends to be in the periods i spend here, this language choice is to be questioned and answered: spanish.

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estoy preocupado, tengo tristeza y miedo.

hace poco decidí que por primera vez en mi vida voy a votar en las corrientes elecciones presidenciales de mi país, colombia. voy a votar no porque haya llegado a creer en una maquinaria política o social siquiera, no porque piense que efectivamente mi voto pueda tener algún efecto plausible, o porque adhiera a un partido o crea efectivamente en lo que dice "mi" candidato, ni siquiera voy a votar creyendo que mi voto venga considerado legalmente (viendo la historia de votaciones y de legalidad en general de mi país); voy a votar, en cambio, como le contaba a un amigo mio recientemente, para no sentirme solo.

porque ahora? la cosa que sucede es muy sencilla pero al mismo tiempo, que yo sepa, es innovadora o por lo menos históricamente mas generalizada de lo que jamas se ha visto. como dice alguna película: las personas son inteligentes, amables y respetuosas; la gente es peligrosa, es odiosa y destructiva. esto algo totalmente exacerbado en mi país, y ademas, hace parte prácticamente de la norma que las personas se comporten como gente. eso es aterrador, eso da miedo y angustia y, una enorme tristeza teniendo en cuenta lo mucho que a fin de cuentas quiero y aprecio mi contexto. háblese particularmente de mi ciudad y de lo que la rodea.

ahora bien, eso es ser gente, eso es ser humano y eso es normal. pero aquí en mi contexto con ello, como decía, se llega a extremos inimaginables, cosas que todos sabemos y de las cuales solo las mal hechas son famosas. eso no es normal, eso no esta bien y eso no tiene ningún tipo de futuro o de continuidad. eso crea una maquinaria ensimismada en la mezquindad y dedicada la auto-conservación, la conservación de una idea de identidad aterradora, orgullosa e ignorante: gente.

ademas de los problemas a la mano, de la violencia, la democracia y la misma pobreza, hay algo que definitivamente no funciona. se suele considerar que este país lleva, 40 años en guerra, narco-guerra, guerra de guerrillas o lo que se quiera, pero efectivamente desde que existe como tal no ha habido un solo año exento de todos los problemas listados. y justamente las propuestas políticas responden a ellos, no a las personas.

ahora bien yo creo, que tengo un problema, yo creo, que hay algo en mi que tengo que tratar de arreglar, que esta violencia que vivo y en la que vivo no esta bien, yo creo que mi ansia e inquietud son producto de mi miedo que se explota en agresividad y en todos aquellos problemas. creo sobre todo que eso no esta bien y que tengo la capacidad de cambiar. quiero creer que puedo ser bueno (si, bueno) y puedo mejorar y puedo llevármela bien con el resto del mundo, puedo ser honesto, pacifico y social.

lo que han generado las corrientes elecciones es esto mismo. ese tipo de conciencia en las personas en pensar que arreglar los problemas de superficie sea conservar y alimentar mi peligrosidad, y que en cambio exista una inminente necesidad de replantearme a mi mismo y a mi contexto. en ello quiero no sentirme solo y me aterra pensar que yo no haga parte de la mayoría, pero me urge en este momento hacerlo, decirlo y compartirlo con la mayor cantidad de personas posibles.

saludos

17.26

hello

-the latest haven't been the merriest of days.

-the latest have brought up unpleasant thoughts and a rather bitter feeling about things.

-the latest have been unusually hot. this is just making everything more difficult. the air smells as if i were somewhere else. the falls have dried up and the mountains have burned.

someone once wrote "there is something terribly wrong with this world".

so, what else? i decided cheer my self up by finally finishing the 6th series. here is the 6th and last episode which i hope you'll enjoy:

17.26 from sod4602

regards

noia

hello

here is a short movie (noia - "boredom") i made back in 2003. i am planning on re-editing the whole thing when i have the time, but as of now here is the original version:

noia from sod4602

also a video i recently worked in, to promote tourism in flandre, in which i did some generalist work:

Flandre Tendance 2010 from Eric Delva

direct links to my site:

http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=202

http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=182

regards

inverno

hello

so i've finally found a way to view and transfer some old cassettes i had lying around. just a couple of old work assignments, which do leave me, however, with a smile after watching them... i hope they will be of your liking too.

maybe it is just the fact that they are live action, and as i have said before i am currently eager to be involved, participate or produce such outputs.

anyways, much much work lately but i will finish the "6" series and there will be others to come (hopefully someone does share my enthuthiasm). and as usual some animations. recently i've been working on some video clips, spots, educational and corporate videos that we will hopefully get to see soon.

now here is the video "inverno" i was talking about, back from 2004 or 2003 (i'll get back to you on this). if i remember correctly the video had no intention other than amuse my self. i hope i will have the time to put some subtitles in it. in the mean time i just felt like updating my blog and site:

inverno from sod4602

direct link to my site:

http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=201

on a side note: please sign your comments or they will be deleted, due to spam filtering.

regards.

new works

hello
here are a couple of works i have participated in over this here year of 2009:
http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=183
http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=184

...and a picture just to make these blog a bit nicer and colorful.

regards.

13.36

13.36 from sod4602

here is the 5th of the 6 series. i am almost done with this first chapter. i do hope that is someone has been following or has watched at least one video, and had something to say, will do so.
regards.

15.56

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01.16

01.16 from sod4602.

video

hello
in my effort to multitask and expand away from my daily chores and my work, i am in the process of outputting information on several formats or means. tonight i inaugurated my vimeo page with a couple of videos.
pretty simple idea that should need no explanation, but just in case, it's fair to say i am into displacement and i am into music.

http://www.vimeo.com/sod4602

00.06 from sod4602.

01.46 from sod4602.

Devenir la parfaite ménagère

i just loved this here image. and people wonder why there are so many divorces nowadays...
cheers

as of now

hello
a quick hello, to share some latest with you.
i am currently working in a short film called "mice (a cat) and & men" a french production involving several studios. here you can see the trailer: http://www.c-b-l.net/mcm/
also i have been trying to keep my website up to date with new works and hopefully some new pictures and illustrations (and maybe even some text) will come about soon. i've been very busy with work, so hopefully soon, will actually be soon.
regards

new short spot

hello.
here is a short spot i worked in, near the end of last year. a new mcd hong kong spot.


it was a 1.5 day project. i hope to upload it in my site as well as some other new stuff, as soon as i get a highres version. this was the last xsi based project i've worked in. i've working in paris for over 2 moths in maya based productions.

McDonald's 24 hours 2009 from mo-c

hope you like it.
cheers.

winter

Juno Mak Feat. Softhard

hello
just some quick news to let you know the music video i worked in recently as character TD, is finished and online.
you can whatch it at: http://www.sod4602.com/works.php?id=192
and view the whole credits here
drop any comments you might have right here if you wish.
thanks.

the place i live in

hello
i have been living in bogotá, colombia, south america for more than a year now. this is the place i was born in, and this is where i am from.
however i take some time now to write a few lines about it.
i've been having a rather great time lately, laughing a lot, drinking a lot, partying a lot, amusing myself. for me it is usually necessary to find people i like in order to bond with a place, in other words i believe i bond with places trough people. so fortunately i have now found great people here.
however this is a rather strange place. i believe "bogotanos" to be completely out of their minds, this is a very dangerous city, a very aggressive one, a very big one, a very chaotic one. i have put much thought into trying to understand what could have driven and still drives this place to be what it is. such selfishness, such hatred, such horrifying things that happen each and every day without a pause.
a girl that a friend of mine knows, was partying recently in one of the most common places to go to. at 4 am her friends accompanied her to take a bus back home. drunk and tired as she was, she got in. the day after she was found dead and raped in some field.
things like this unfortunately happen everywhere more often that you'd like to think. here however, things like this you hear every day, and much more happen which you don't even hear about. life has a very low price here, there is such much violence that things are counted by the dozen, the hundred, the thousands, so one more or less does not really make a difference. now what do you do? people have very different ways on going about life here, you might flee elsewhere, you might ignore the whole deal to be able to live a normal life, you live in fear, you might be always cautious, you might participate in chaos, you might become erratic and aggressive yourself, you might drink and drown in it as almost everyone does here, you might live happily cause it can be done, and it is done on a day to day basis.
i believe this things to be very important to be told, to be kept in mind, and to be "fought" in some way. therefore i decided to write this here today, and i might do so again in the future.
i believe people to be bad by nature; someone i know that works with children says people are driven bad as they grow. be that as it may, this place has no mental or physical boundaries that might help you keep or grow into "goodness".
hopefully i will be writing cheerful things soon.

thank you for the attention if you have taken the time to read this
.

flickr

hello all
just a quick update to let you all know i have started to really use flickr. so here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sod4602/ you can see bits and pieces of my work and non work activities...

page at frederator's awards

hello all!

so page d'ecriture has been nominated for a 2008 Channel Frederator Award in the "Best Foreign Film" category! to win this price would a great thing so hopefully you'll be voting for us at http://www.channelfrederatorawards.com/
congratulations and good luck to all the other nominees, especially "cocotte minute" and "anfang anzufangen" the other two runners for foreign film.
cheers!

hello
well it's been a while since i've written anything, or published any works. perfectly good explanation for that, as i've been very busy, and... very busy. however i finished my site, and intend to keep it updated, with works and such.
currently i am still working freelance in Bogotá and enjoying it. recently i worked in the theater festival of my town, which turned out to be a great experience.

my new website

hello!
finally i've put up my web site.
it is still under construction but you'll be able to find some info about my work there. hopefully i'll be updating it soon with short movies, works, links, personal info and misc.
http://www.sod4602.com/



special thank to giribu and meh. how have helped enormously with everything a specially with the website.
cheers!

juan

latest showreel version

hallo all!
i worked on some changes to my showreel a while ago. now i've been working for a month at a national TV called caracol. and i've been writing an article about CG in south america and differences with europe. hopefully i'll get the chance to finish it and publish it soon!

and a better quality version here
cheers!

recent news

hy i say.
good news i say.

recently rampicante won the first price at the arcipelago film festival, and best animation at the dervio film festival.

page d'ecriture won second price at dervio.
nice i say.

10000 reasons

i'm kind of in a hurry, but i have some news for you all.
as you know i came to colombia on holidays with the intention of checking out the whole situation here.
after probably a few days i had already decided i was going to stay. i waited so long to tell you all wating for some work things and such to take a firmer shape. now it's definitive.
i'll stay here for now and then, and eventually i'll move to a mountain with sheep and goats, fresh made cheese and snow on the winter.
i'm very sorry not being able to talk to you all personally and explain my self better, but this decision brings with it a lot of things to do right away.
in the meantime you can check out what me and kuark are doing on the evening: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9072544@N02/

some news

this place is really nice. in very short time i've gotten huge surprises here. it's just obvious that this is where i come from and this my home in the end. other places i might consider my house but there is an unexplainable connection with this environment.
it's somewhat of correct pole direction of sorts. just where your north should be, or if the center of gravity just matches. that does not diminish other places or makes anything better, just different, fortunately that is something i haven't learned. things just tend to be very natural for me here, and i love that. needless to say my gods are here.
as some of you might know, i dunno yet where will i end up, or when. i'm just writing now to share these nice sensations with you.
by the side you see the lake. this a 2 year old picture, but it sure is still there and hopefully i'll visit it soon.

now you see me, now you don't

stealing the structure: as said before the importance might not be winning (this comes within the core of the play: everybody wins) the importance surely resides on playing, and how you play. you might wanna keep the illusion for yourself of being always on step ahead, just for the sake of your own stability, and for enjoying the play as winner should. so the whole situation becomes lovable, as everybody is sure to be the center of attention, the main event, and the cleverest around.

she, as clever as she is, as detached as she is, is nevertheless amused, and she likes that, therefore she's surprised and why not, curiously teased. in her being like a "sponge", and in her great need to communicate, she documents; nice relaxing thing that helps her keep the higher ground and attack with ace. as we all know the best defence is a good attack, and i could easily rest my case on that note, but there's more...

here we come up with the "now you see me, now you don't" trick approach, which allows you to tease not only with the "cleverest strike", but with sporadicus glances of unrevealed innocence and honesty. the cool thing is that no one knows who they are dealing with, or at least they might wanna think they don't. the whole thing just closes beautifully which incredible clearness and forwardness.

what a laugh!

hopefully joy

not bad at all. hopefully joy:
http://www.digitick.com/ext/billetterie3/index.php4?site=rockenseine&langue=fr

softimage certified instructor

i am now officially a softimage certified instructor. very nice thing indeed i'd say.
thanks to martìn cabrera how tutored me.
by the way my amazement is still notorious after almost a week in bogotà. this place is crazy, in a nice and not so nice way. i really like it anyway, it's great to come back home after this years with no real purpose, just to re-check it out.
one thing that comes to my mind right away, and might be of interest... the weather, it has gotten very hot over the last years, but it's still amazing how it can rain for 30 minutes at 12c grades, and 2 seconds after it'd stop and reach 20c.
by the way i'll be making some changes to my showreel from to tomorrow on. after some great advise from rg there are a few things to reconsider. i'll post the new version asp.

the picture below is near to where i spent mother's day with my family. sorry for the cable in the middle of the picture, but it was just... there.

la petite bête!

bonheur!
bonheur!
bonheur!

bogotà

here i am.
not exactly the same view i've got, but same city anyway. rain and sunshine as i said before. strangest first glance of it: the colour of the ground from the plane. dark green, very very dark. now practically everything makes me wiggle, but unfortunately it wont last more than a week, and everything will become "normal".
cheers!

barajas

right now i'm in barajas, madrid's airport. my flight has been delayed but i'll be slepping at 2600 mts tonight! rain and sunshine, rain and sunshine! as soon as i get the chance i'll post some photos from the eagle's mountain.
cheers to you all!

colombia here i come

recently i was thinking about leaving italy and moving to somewhere else in europe. i think my european experience it's not yet over, and i'de like to work some more arround here. unfortunately not everything turns the way you'd like, or (hopefuly) not everything comes when you'd like it to. it seems that i'm gonna have to wait to continue my european tour, and it might take a greater effort than i thought... which i might add, it is not a small effort.
in the mean time i've gotta wait for some events to take place, so what better place to do so, than back home? i'm going back to bogotà. i dunno really for how long, and dunno really if i'll stay or do what. i know that i gotta spend some time there now, and move along with things. i'm happy about this.
sad thing is, not being able to persue your goals beacuse of external reasons. this really turns me down and tends to get me upset as well. i usually try and talk in riddles here, or metaphorically, today i'll say straight out that being a thrid world country cirtizen unfortunately narrows your reach for possibilities arround the world. or at least, here it is clear and denifite that people "like me" are not wanted, therefore treated in such manner. sad.
when i turn on my cellphone a message comes out in spanish, that says "today is a good day", like and old virus that attacked my father's computer and had a window popping out with the exact same message. well... not everyday is a good day. not by all means.

new showreel!

online interview

this is an interview i did recently:
http://guide.dada.net/cartoni_animati/interventi/2007/04/292747.shtml
hope it makes you smile at least. by the way, the image is not by me, it's an image i found in the internet and liked a lot. thanks to whom ever made it.

these days

so these days i've doing some publicity to my diploma stuff on the internet. and i've gotten great results, here are the links:

page d'ecriture:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/page-decriture
http://dekku.blogspot.com/
http://dekku.blogspot.com/2007/04/page-decriture.html
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=484157
http://www.renderglobal.org/forum//showthread.php?t=12305
http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=30008
http://www.loop.la/foro/viewtopic.php?t=1609
http://www.treddi.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37343
http://www.xsimilano.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=617

rampicante:
http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=30090
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=154&t=485620
http://www.renderglobal.org/forum//showthread.php?t=12313
http://www.loop.la/foro/viewtopic.php?t=1613
http://www.treddi.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=37388
http://www.xsimilano.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=620

rampicante

HERE an other short film i worked in last year. on this one i worked as character TD and technical director mostly. hope you like it.

page d'ecriture

HERE it is! one of the short diploma films i worked in last year. as you can see from the credits i co-directed and i worked as technical director and character TD. hope you like it!

verona

it's been three nights in verona... i dunno for how long will i be staying here, but i love this city and i've always had a darn great time here. so this is home (for now):
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θνῄσκω τῇ τιμῄ

alas! i finished Something! here i die for honour! therefore i die IN honour!

some greek spartanian enthusiasm lately... hope i could party like this every day.
LINK to one of the diploma shorts i worked in for my als year at school.

discrasia wip

just to show that i'm not on holydays and i'm not losing time... here are some wips from discrasia's shot 002 tube (the project i'm currently working on). there is no compositing. just shading and lighting. trying to get my favorite shaders to work together on this wanna-be realistic old dirty metal tube. in the mean time i wait for my windowed opportunity to persue what i want. change city now, change city later again when the window will open... my room looks like a room of some one who will soon move out, and i hopefully will, far and away.

baby food and psp

spring is at the gates. there will be some spring cleaning in my house, 'fo sho'. as brother brother would say.
now what could be better than some baby food and some good old-fashion-up-to-date technology? my grandmother used to feed my sister and me this... baby food, not technology.
here, where i live, the brand you see is probably the biggest in terms of baby products. hopefully i'll be doing some extended market research.

raven

i rather not talk about politics here... but just this once i'll make a slight exeption. i finished studying recently and i decided to take part of my social and political status, that i had never exercised until now. i wanna go to the north pole and volunteer in a animal helping organization, i'm just trying to find one that will not make me pay for working. if you know of any please let me know. this here is a test render for the ravens, from here on i think i wont be able to post anything more about this project.

no winter like last winter

there was no winter like last winter... no snow, no cold weather this year, just happy summer sea people. wating for theyr arses to burn under a hot spring sun, after two moths of dieting on tomatos and paranoia.
right now i'm working on a long feature adding some cg ravens onto live action shots. i'm finally happy about the feather shader and my rig is working nicely, so we will be animating for 1 week, aftewords rendering will be done in rome, and we'll be happy to meet up with the nice mediterranean weather.

curriculum vitae

curriculum vitae juan correa english version HERE

(thanx to valentina for hosting)

stretch xsi and illustration

in this LINK you'll find: an example rig of a lowerbody with stretch and footroll. developed for a project in the begining of 2006.
the emdl file it's an xsi 5.01 model.

this is a 3d illustration i did recently as graphic research for a project i'm working on. it took me about 4 hours (+ render):

showreel 2005

amperio 2005

this are some images from amperio.
short film in which i worked last year (2005) along with the students of the 3rd year at CSC , this project was theyr diploma.
at the present time i'm doing the 3rd year and i'm working in 2 new shorts.
my work in amperio consisted in (i quote form the film credits):
technical assistant
character modeling, rigging and shape assistant
bkg and props modeling and texturing
4th animator