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

15.56 from sod4602

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.

http://vimeo.com/2811262
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.
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 at: http://www.feedhere.com/?p=2735
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
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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/index.php



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.

creative gataux

sundays in the wilderness of rainy mountains near home. heavy doses of meat and laughter. "the beauty by the dinosaur is called M. as gentle as strawberries with whipped cream" i said, but it really sounds better in spanish and leaves the suspicion that you might be word-playing or straight-talking.

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!

new blog

i have oppened a new blog where i'll be putting stuff i like. hope you like it, and hope you give a hand filling it up with interesting things.
http://badperspective.blogspot.com/

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):

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