1st Explosion Text FumeFX and Maya

Here is my first test with FumeFX, Render with Mental Ray.

A few months ago I did this illustration with Maya and Arnold.
Final Photoshop retouching: James Hawkes
Creative Agency: Marketforce

YETI evaluation

This is my evaluation test of fur with YETI and Arnold. YETI works really well and you have a lot of control. I follow the basic tutorial from http://blaabjergb.com/yeti-tutorials/ (Bjørn, Blaabjerg Sørensen) Best part render time 47sec on a PC intel i7 3.30Ghz with 16gb ram.

Sunday Times FIAT

SundayTimes FIAT from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is the latest TVC that we did at John Cheese for Sunday Times. I did the Rig, Animation and Lighting, I used Maya and Arnold. Other Credits: Tony Bannan: Previz Video Animatic. James Hawkes: Composition

WA Housing Centre First Home Ownership

WA Housing Centre First Home Ownership from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is the latest TVC that I did at John Cheese, I used Maya and Arnold for render. I did the models, book rigs, animation and lighting. Stephen Grant did the storyboards and all the Texture work and Walter Cheung the final comp.

Child Care Rebate TVC

Child Care Rebate from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

I did the model, shader and lighting of the Train and Text. A different Post-production studio did an older version, but the client and agency change the text and content so they give us the new changes to us at John Cheese. I model, texture and light the train using the original video as a reference. Render with Mental Ray.

RARE Logo Animation

Rare Logo from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is an animation that I did for our friends of Rare creative agency http://rarethinking.com

Helicopter Arnold/Nuke Exercise

Helicopter Arnold/Nuke Exercise from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

The footage is from a fxphd VRAY training class. But I used to test the Arnold-Nuke pipeline. I tracked the shot in Nuke; the model of the helicopter was provided by fxphd; I did the textures, shaders, lighting, dust(maya fluids) with maya. Final render with Arnold(MTOA) and my final comp with Nuke 7. Conclusion Arnold Rocks!!

This is one of the latest illustration that I worked on at John Cheese. I did the AUD Notes and the particles. The chainsaw is a photo(I don't have the name of photographer). Final Retouch, James Hawkes. The art direction is from Block Branding(Mark Braddock).

HIF Easy

HIF EASY from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is the latest TVC that I did for HIF, I always enjoy to animate this little character.

IKEA New Year, The 2013 IKEA catalogue has arrived.

This is the last TVC that I worked on, I did the tracking, model of the mailboxes, the smoke and fireworks. The track was really difficult because once the camera was pointing the sky I was losing all my tracking points. The smoke was done with maya fluids.

My new 2012 3D Animation/VFX Demo Reel

Juan Zubiaga Demo Reel 2012 from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

Finally I made time to updated my Demo Reel, let me know what you think.

Department of Education WA, Wonder

Department of Education WA, Wonder from Juan Zubiaga on Vimeo.

This is the latest TVC that we did at John Cheese, the Fur on the Fish and Rabbit was a Challenge, I did the render of all the shots in Renderman for Maya. I did the 3d Tracking, Models, Rigs, Animation and Lighting. Tony helped me a lot with the Layouts while I was developing the fur. I did the model, animation and lighting of the IPAD Content too. Credits : Juan Zubiaga (3D Animator) Ross Tinney (Director) James Hawkes (VFX Supervisor, Color Grading) Tony Banan (Editor, Supervisor, Layout, Final Composition) Kate Downie (Producer)

2 Dollar Red Rooster

I work on the 2 dollar coin in this TVC, Tony Bannan directed and did the final comp. Dan Moller did the 2 dollar coin model and texture and I did the Coin Rig, Animation, Shader, Lighting and Precomp.

More BedShed(Minority Report)

Here is the latest TVC for Bedshed, I did the model of the jacket and character animation of Baxter. The footage of the mattress was provided by BedShed

Print Work

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

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

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

Satterley Better Time

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

HIF Dental

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.