Juan Zubiaga 3D Animation Blog

Print Work

2012-01-09T12:41:00.006+08:00

Here are some images that I worked on this past end of 2011

Brownes Kick, I did the bottles and the glass. The Ice version was just a test.

This is a Christmas Star for Water Corporation,

HIF Dance

2012-01-09T12:03:00.003+08:00

This is another animation that I did for HIF(Third version of the TVC series).
Dan Moller help us with the model and lights of the 43 days help cover sign.

BedShed TVC

2012-01-09T11:56:00.003+08:00

This are the latest BedShed TVC. As you see between BedShed and HIF I finished the 2011 happily doing some animation.

Satterley Better Time

2012-01-05T16:42:00.005+08:00

This is the latest Satterley TVC that I worked on before Christmas.

HIF Dental

2011-10-17T11:09:00.004+08:00

After a Long month working on a project with Mango Blue, I did this TVC with John Cheese. I always enjoy do animation for this little bird.

Prometheus Lighting Test

2011-08-17T17:40:00.003+08:00

I create this image for test and try new ways(for me) of lighting in Mental Ray. The model is from Scott Eaton from a Renderman tutorial.

I'm using Area lights(No Physical), Lens shader for DOF and photographic shader for the camera. I'm not using Final Gather or Global Ilumination.
I'm really happy with the result, was relatively cheap render.

BedShed Delivery

2011-08-05T12:05:00.004+08:00

Here is the last animated Retail TVC that I work on, here my challenge was to work with the Trax editor and the speed of the walks.

YouYi Games Slam Dunk

2011-06-27T15:04:00.002+08:00

Here in John Cheese we did the TVC for the YOUYI Games, I was busy in others project so I did not had a chance to work on it, but I was able to work on the animation of the graphics that will be playing on the big screen during the YOUYI Games 2011. This is one of the animations that I did. Dan Moller did the Model of the characters and rig.

The YouYi Games bring together the national teams from China and Australia to celebrate the relationships between countries and provide fans in the region with a world-class basketball experience.

Brownes Chill Man Up website

2011-06-14T17:57:00.002+08:00

I did this scene last month for Marketforce, this scene is for the Man up website:
http://www.man-up.com.au
This scene have a small animation that is load it randomly.

HIF Saver Options

2011-05-18T17:14:00.001+08:00

This is the last TVC that we did for HIF, in this one my colleague and friend Dan Moller help us with the model and rig of the bird and with the rig of the cloth elements.

HIF 5 Years

2011-03-04T13:59:00.001+08:00

This is the last TVC that I did for HIF(Rare)

SteelBlue TVC

2010-11-01T10:25:00.005+08:00

SteelBlue TVC from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Bannister Downs Ad

2010-10-12T09:07:00.003+08:00

This is the latest tv ad that we did for Bannister Downs. I did the tracking, the CG Glass and the Milk simulation and precomp. James did the final comp and grade and Josh the edit.

Bannister Downs Milk from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is the track of the original shot:

Bannister Downs tracking of the Milk TV Ad from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Panasonic Snowman

2010-08-03T17:08:00.005+08:00

Here is the latest work that we did at John Cheese for Panasonic Air Network, I'm really happy with the final look given the short timeframe.

SnowMan TVC from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Coffin cinema ad

2010-07-30T12:24:00.004+08:00

we did this effective cinema ad. I like it because is simple.

Coffin stay off the tracks from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

SCITECH OLD ADS

2010-07-29T23:37:00.002+08:00

Today I found this test that I did with Merlin Cornish when we were testing different looks for the character of the Pixel tvc for scitech, I was really happy with the animated texture, but the Agency choose a different one.

Pixel Character Design from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Here are the final version of 2 of 3 TVC that we did for Scitech.

Scitech Pixel from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Scitech Moon from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

QBE TVC

2010-07-29T13:30:00.002+08:00

Early this year I did a series of TVC's for QBE, here are 2 of them

SteelBlue Boot 3d Model

2010-04-19T16:39:00.005+08:00

I did this model to show the different layers of the Steel Blue safety work boots. This is a model with black leather.

Most of the time I hate modeling but this time I really enjoyed the process of model the boot.

Image of a nice character

2010-04-12T14:33:00.004+08:00

I did this image for Block(they design the character), I'm really happy with the final look of the image, the model is so simple just with basic shapes(Spheres and Cylinders)

Cassette Tape for Curtin

2010-03-19T16:45:00.005+08:00

I worked on this image for a Curtin University print campaign, I'm really happy with the result of tape look, it is a double side shader with a random white cards reflection map.

Here is the final version with the agency treatment(Brand Agency)

Ellenbrook TVC Image

2010-03-03T13:46:00.004+08:00

This is an Image from the Ellenbrook TVC, I went to an OfficeWorks store and take photos of the main entrances, that was the map that we used for reflections.

Here is the final version of 15sec:

Ellenbrook "Choose" 15 Sec. from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Burswood, Print Ad

2010-02-25T15:53:00.003+08:00

I worked on this Burswood's illustration for a new What's on ad. I used Ncloth for the Dollar Notes and gold confetti.

Mental Ray Production Shaders Test

2010-01-15T15:14:00.003+08:00

I'm doing some test with the production shaders of Mental Ray, this is the back of the office of John Cheese. I created an HDRI images from the back.

This is with out any comp, straight from Maya, later I will create all the passes and do the comp.

Reel 2010

2010-01-14T11:52:00.002+08:00

Finally after long time no posting on this blog. I updated my reel.

Juan Zubiaga CG Demo Reel 2010 from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Week5, Term 3

2006-11-01T15:43:00.000+08:00

This is my final shot of the beach, I hope you like.

feel free to leave me comments and critics.

Juan.

Week 4, Term 3

2006-10-23T13:31:00.000+08:00

Well,

I'm still not happy that all with my shot but I hope that next week in my polishing pass every thing come right.

What you thing about it.

Week 2, I'm Back

2006-10-09T14:09:00.000+08:00

Hi,

well after one term break I started AM 2 weeks ago, My mentor for this Term is Raquel Cohelo, she is a really nice person and with a lot of experience. This term is "Introduction to Acting", so my first assigment I have to animate just with the body lenguage a contrast between moods.

This is the Blocking of my first Assignmet, I hope Raquel help me to push my poses further.

Juan

Week 6, ReBlocking

2006-05-17T01:42:00.002+08:00

This Week I reblock my assignment with the comments of Paul, now I'm ready to start to refining and polishing for next week.

Juan

Week 5 New Assignment - Blocking stage

2006-05-10T11:50:00.000+08:00

This is the blocking of my second Assignment, the important of this exercise is to play with the spine and weight.

Week 5 Final Assignment 1 - Class 2

2006-05-06T00:58:00.000+08:00

Hi,

This week we have to start the blocking for the assignment 2, but I did my final version of my assignment 1 with the critics that Paul did to me last week.

Juan

Week 4

2006-05-01T12:02:00.000+08:00

Hi,

This is the corrections and the refining of my Assignment. Still need minor tweak that Paul ask me to do.

I hope next week I can have the final one.

See you

Juan

Class 2, Week 3

2006-04-24T02:30:00.000+08:00

Hi, This is my second pass of Blocking, the comments that I received from Paul was that I need to exaggerate more my poses, so I add the jump and a little bit of energy on all my animation.

Class 2 First Assigment

2006-04-18T21:12:00.000+08:00

Hi,

This is the blocking pass of my first assignment of the 2nd Term.

My Mentor this 2nd. Class is Paul Allen: "Raised all over the map in Texas, I grew up loving to trace cartoons out of the Sunday comics and filling my eyes with Saturday morning cartoons. After deciding that chasing shoplifters in retail establishments wasn't a worthy career for such raw talents, I chose a path to animation (circa 1993 - 94) after seeing the short film by Pixar, 'Knick Knack'.
After graduating from a 2 year course of study at The Art Institute of Dallas in 1997, I've animated at DNA Productions, Inc. for the past 9 years on various projects such as 'Santa vs. The Snowman', 'Olive the Other Reindeer', 'Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius' (both feature and TV show), and the current feature 'The Ant Bully'."

Class 1 End.

2006-04-03T20:16:00.000+08:00

Hi,

well I did not had the time to update my blog during the term, I hope this term I will have more time.

This are all my assigments from class 1.

See you

JuanZ.

Session 3

2006-02-05T19:16:00.000+08:00

hi,

Finally I had time to update my AM blog, this week I had to make my first animation at AM, The Bouncing Ball, this animation supose to measure our sense of timing and space that we have as future animators; was fun because 3 years ago I did my first and last bouncing ball.

My second assignment was to pose Stu on an Excitment pose.

any critics is welcome.

JuanZ.

Session 2

2006-01-22T13:27:00.000+08:00

Hi,

Well this week we had to go out to the streets and find interesting poses. I had trouble to find some poses that I like. I went to Kings Park, a beautiful park in Downtown Perth, and start to take some photos from my surroundings, finally I got my poses.

See you Next Week.

Juan

Session 1

2006-01-15T11:06:00.000+08:00

Finally I start AM, I'm excited. This first week we just review a video of introducction to animation, it was just great how with this video and just been around the AM campus, I confirm how happy I'm with my professional career.