Ernesto's Animation Blog

First look at the characters of Justin...

2011-12-24T12:44:00.005+01:00

Yes, it seems that a few weeks ago, this image came out with some of the characters of the film "Justin & The Knights Of Valour"

The guy with the sword and the green costumes is the main character, Justin :)

Your thoughts?

Justin And The Knights Of Valour

2011-09-25T13:27:00.003+02:00

This is the official title for the movie I'm working on Kandor Graphics

Here you can see more infromation Timeless

And this is the first Image

I hope I can post more things soon :)

P.D: Oh my god!! More than a year without any updates in this blog!!...... I'm ashamed :(

Fred Moore

2010-07-19T21:12:00.005+02:00

.....I don't know if you knew something about this page, but lately I was searching drawings, animations, interviews, anything about Fred Moore (one of my favourite animators of all time), and I found this awesome blog about him.

Fred Moore's Archive

Check this other blog (the author of Fred Moore's blog), is a great artist too!! ^^

Pedro Daniel

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No se si conocerías esta página, pero ultimamente estaba buscando dibujos, animaciones, entrevistas sobre Fred Moore (uno de mis animadores favoritos de todos los tiempos), y encontré este blog sobre él

Fred Moore's Archive

Mirad este blog también (del autor del blog de Fred Moore), un gran artista!! ^^

Pedro Daniel

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2010-03-12T01:12:00.001+01:00

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New Reel!!

2010-02-21T19:20:00.003+01:00

I spent the day creating a new reel, with some of my latest works, because the other one was very old, almost 2 years old!!

I hope you enjoy it!!

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Como tenia el dia aburrido, he decidido montarme una pequeña reel con algunos de los ultimos trabajos que he hecho.

Espero que os guste!!

-EE-

Reel_2010 from Ernesto Esteso on Vimeo.

To the Oscars!!

2010-02-04T22:52:00.002+01:00

We're nominated!!

Yes, The Lady and the Reaper, the short film in wich I worked as an animator, has been nominated for the 82nd Academy Awards

No words can describe the joy and happiness that we're living at the studio

As a gift, you can see the full shortfilm at the official website!

The Lady and The Reaper

Enjoy it:)

-EE-

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Estamos nominados!!!!

Si, La dama y la muerte, el cortometraje en el que trabajé como animador, ha sido nominado para los Oscars.

La alegría que ahora mismo se respira en el estudio, no se puede describir con palabras.

Como regalo, el corto se puede ver completo, en la página web oficial!!

The Lady and The Reaper

Disfrutadlo :)

-EE-

The Lady And The Reaper Making Off

2010-01-23T12:24:00.002+01:00

Here are some videos of the Lady and the Reaper's making off

We're pre-nominated for the Oscars and nominated for the Goya awards (most important film awards of Spain)

Enjoy it!!

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Aqui teneis unos videos del Making off del corto La Dama y la Muerte

Actualmente estamos prenominados para los Oscars y nomindos para los Goyas como mejor corto de animación ^^

Disfrutadlo!!

Alma is on the web!!!

2009-12-23T12:25:00.002+01:00

Finally, and only for a limited time, the shortfilm Alma is up on the web!!!

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Thanks to Rodrigo for this unexpected christmas present ^^

Enjoy it!

-EE-

The Lady And The Reaper

2009-11-02T13:13:00.004+01:00

It's finally on the web!! The website of the shortfilm in wich I've been working over the last months is finally released! You can take a look at the website, and see a sneak peek of the shortfilm, on the teaser section.

Enjoy it ;)

The Lady And The Reaper

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Finalmente ha salido!!!! La página web del corto en el que estube trabajando durante los últimos meses por fin ha sido subida!.
Puedes ver un pequeño avance del corto en la seccion "Teaser"

Disfrutadlo ;)

The Lady And The Reaper

Alma teaser!!

2009-06-17T21:43:00.005+02:00

La página web del corto se ha actualizado con el teaser del corto, por fin podeis ver algo en movimiento ;)

Si alguno está o decide pasar por USA entre el 23 y 29 de Junio, podrá ver el corto al completo en su estreno en el Palm Spring Shortfest ;)

Alma - Teaser from alma on Vimeo.

The website has been updated with the teaser of the shortfilm, so you can finally see something in movement ;)

And you can see the full short at his premiere at the Palm Springs Shortfest (June 23-29, 2009)

Enjoy!

-EE-

Alma

2009-05-25T20:43:00.007+02:00

Este es el título del primer corto de Rodrigo Blaas (animador en Pixar), que hace su debut como director.

Tuve la oportunidad de participar en este proyecto, como animador, cuando conocí a Rodrigo, mientras trabajaba en Keytoon.

Ahora mismo en la página web, sólo se puede ver una imagen de la protagonista, y una "review" hecha por Lee Unkrich, director de Toy Story 3!!! ^^
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This is the title of a new shortfilm directed by Rodrigo Blaas (Pixar animator)

I had the pleasure to participate as an animator on this wonderful project, almost two years ago, when I met Rodrigo while I was working at Keytoon.

Right now you can see the webpage, with one image of the short and a first "review", made by Lee Unkrich, director of the upcoming Toy Story 3!!! ^^

-EE-

The Missing Lynx reel

2009-05-12T00:42:00.009+02:00

At last the DVD is out in the stores, so I finally can show some of the scenes I did for this movie (the first one I worked ^^)

I did the animation of every character and props in the shots, and the animation was done in 1-2 days with character studio

I hope you like it ;)

Higher Resolution

-EE-

New images!! ^^

2009-04-01T01:18:00.003+02:00

A few images more from the shortfilm. One render, and three concepts of the characters

enjoy it ;)

Pd: I hope that I can post some animations soon :)

Death and the Maiden

2009-03-30T20:55:00.003+02:00

That's the tentative title of the next shortfilm, that Kandor Moon, is going to release through this year.

Directed by Javier Recio, tells the story of a "not too young maiden" and her meeting with the Death............ sorry, but I don't want to spoil you the story :p

I just finished to animate on this one the last week (right now we're in the preproduction of our next feature film "Goleor: the scales and the sword" )

In the shortfilm, we try to do our best, and I can swear you that the quality of the every aspect of the shortfilm are much better than of the "The Missing Lynx". I'm pretty happy with the animation we did. I learned a lot, and of course I had a lot of fun with these characters

Here's is the first pic

I will try to post as soon as possible some more pics or maybe some animations ;)

-EE-

The Missing Lynx

2008-12-06T16:26:00.003+01:00

This is the first feature film that I worked on, and finally the first official trailer is up on the web.

You can watch it from here :

Trailer

Unfortunatelly nothing of my work is showed here (just some inbetweening work done on the lynx, while he is talking with Antonio Banderas), so you will have to wait to the theatrical release :p

-EE-

11Second Club

2008-11-07T20:41:00.003+01:00

Finally, I had some time to make a few changes to the animation that I presented for the September's 11secondclub contest.

I ended the 8th one. Yuhuuuuu!!!. Next time.....better hehehe.

I've made a little improvements on the lipsync, and in some of the poses, for better silhouette.
I've made a basic render, and "voilà"

If you want to see a Higher Resolution video, watch it here:

Killed Him

Like always, any comment will be welcome ;)

-EE-

Testing Riggs

2008-07-12T21:56:00.000+02:00

Yeap!! This is a little animation I did to test the new rigg that Iker is doing for the new project at the studio.

It's an early version without all the features, but at this point the rigg is very friendly to work with it.

I can't wait to have the finished rigg, and start to making crazy animations ^.^

At last an update......an animation!!!

2008-06-12T22:03:00.000+02:00

I know this isn't the most updated blog, but you know..........I'm a busy man (more lazy than busy, hehe)

I finally finished a new animation. I've got the audio from the february contest of 11secondclub, but I could not finish the animation on time, and after a long time waiting, I got some extra time to finish it.

I hope you like it, and every comment you want to make me, will be very welcome ^_^

If you want to see the animation with better resolution, click here

James Baxter......The God.

2007-12-07T22:48:00.000+01:00

Oh my god!! I just read this in Victor Navone's blog, and I can't resist to share this with you. The astonishing work, done by James Baxter's studio, on the film Enchanted.

Absolutely inspiring. Seeing this, I only can pray for the return of the good 2d animation, and the classic fairytales.......I just, miss them so much...snifff.

Enjoy this little piece of art.

Enchanted

Airwick

2007-10-20T19:13:00.000+02:00

Here is the shots that I had to animate for some TV spot of Airwick.

Hope you enjoy it.

Veggietales

2007-09-30T22:31:00.000+02:00

I finally can put online some of the works I did through the last year.

At Keytoon, we made a shortfilm of the famous Veggietales series. This shortfilm is a part of the DVD called "God Made You Special".

It was an interesting project that I think the final product has some really good points, like the illumination, or why not, the animation :P

I put in here some of the shots I did ;)

Enjoy!!

-EE-

Ok, some photos.

2007-09-30T13:50:00.001+02:00

I did, this last summer, a great trip with my very good friends Dani,Jor,Manu and Sonia. It was awesome all the things we saw there.

We visit in just a week, three big cities. Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

I just have a few photos, because I lost a lot of them when my computer crashed. But well, at least I have a few of them......

If you want to see some more photos, you can view it here part_01, here part_02, and here part_03 ;)

Cheers!!

What's going on!!!!????

2007-09-30T01:56:00.000+02:00

Yeah......I was lost lately, but I have some excuses ^^

First, I have a new job, as senior animator, at Kandor Graphics, working in my first movie The Myssing Lynx (yuhuuu!!!).

While I was at Keytoon, I learned a lot from my bosses, and workmates, it was an awesome year there. I worked in a very interesting projects and I met a very talented people, thanks to everybody :)

But life's go on, and I moved to Granada (a small but absolutely beautiful city). I enter into an amazing team of people, that work very hard, to make this movie possible. I know we can do it ;)

Tomorrow, or maybe the day after tomorrow :p ....I will update the blog with some new works I did, and maybe with some photos.

Well, until then.......... cheers!!

-EE-

Just a Few Updates

2007-07-02T00:26:00.000+02:00

Yeap!. Just a minor updates.

I added my last animation into the demoreel, you can see it in my Animations section.

I make a new section with my resume in two formats (pdf and microsotf word)

And finally, I added the links of some friends (Edu & Jor), just take a look ;)

I hope to have something new to post soon!!!

-EE-

New Animation.

2007-04-19T21:46:00.000+02:00

At last I made a new animation!!!........yeah, I know, it's like a miracle :P

At work, I attended a great MasterClass by Dani Peixe. In that classes we have to make a "simple" exercise, and go through the whole process (Idea, sketches, golden poses, 2D animation for preview timing, 3D blocking, and final animation)

The idea, was very simple, we have to animate a guy, that see a box, pick it up, and........well, just take a look ;)

BOX

I hope you like it, and any comments will be welcome

-EE-

2007-03-19T17:31:00.000+01:00

I knew it.........in a few days, new trailer!! ^_^

It will be the same as the chinese trailer?....... It will have new scenes? arrrgghhhhhh!!! I can't wait to see the movie!!!!......... :P

Stay alert.

New Ratatouille Trailer!!!!! (with chinese subtitles ^^)

2007-03-16T10:58:00.000+01:00

UPDATE: As you can imagine, the video has been removed from Youtube. This time they were very fast :-P. I hope that a lot of you saw the video, if not........don't worry, I'm sure that in a few weeks they will release another one ^^

At least, We can see a new poster :P

Yeap, Watch it before Pixar-Disney, take out the trailer from youtube ;)

Or this link, if the above video don't work-------> Ratatouille

P.D: My opinion? Excellent like always. My only question........ Why the american or european trailers for these movies, are not like the oriental trailers.......they explain much more about the film, and makes you a more clear idea how the film will be?.

Well, enjoy it ;)

-EE-

Rapunzel Test!!!!

2007-02-13T00:28:00.000+01:00

I don't know how much time this video is gonna be in Youtube, but I think this is pure gold!!!!!

Have a look ;)

P.D: Thanks Mr Keane!! ^_^

Ratatouille Test.........

2007-02-09T01:29:00.000+01:00

Maybe some of you, have seen this test before, but I have to put it here.........because is soooooooo good!!

I'm fascinated again, by the guys of Pixar (this time, it seems that the "guilty" of this animation has been Doug Dooley). It's a little test of pantomime to test some characters of the next Pixar film (it seems that this character is called "Emile"). In the video we see, that they warn us, that the animation is rough, but................man, I want to animate like this "rough animation"!!!!!!!!! XDDDDD

Well, less words, and go to see the video ;)

Enjoy ^_^

-EE-

The Grandfather Of Soul

2007-01-11T01:32:00.000+01:00

At last, we can show you, the short film in which we putted all the efforts these last months.

I have not participated directly on this, but you can see the great effort that my workmates putted in this little piece of animation.

I hope you enjoy it ;)

P.D: Unfortunately, James Brown, died a few days ago. I hope that this little animation, serve as an homage of the true "Grandfather Of Soul"

-EE-

New spanish films....

2006-12-27T13:04:00.000+01:00

Seems like Filmax Animation is growing a lot in the last few years. They start with a decent film "El Cid, The Legend", and since then, they don't stop to produce and create one film after another.

Their new films, for the upcoming years, are very interesting products, and two of them in 2D!!!! (arrghh, I was praying for the return of the 2D animation, and seems like the guys of Filmax heard me....... ^_^ )

Mr.Collieu ----> Form the directors of Nocturna. The story seems very original, and the animation is pretty well done, plus the awesome design of the characters. I can't wait to see this movie.

And the Trailer

Nocturna, will be the first of this films, in to be released, hopefully. I love the design of the characters, and the animation. So, I hope, that this film wiil be a hit in the theaters.

Trailer

The last of the films, Filmax is producing, is Donkey Xote. They show us the typical story, told through the eyes of Rucio (Sancho's donkey). This time the film will be in 3D, and in the trailer, they show us a very beautiful backgrounds, hopefully, the story will be good as well.

Trailer

P.D: Oh, I worked on the game of this last movie, so I hope that in no time I can be able to show you some of the animations I did. :)

Coming Soon!!!.......

2006-12-15T01:32:00.000+01:00

..... Yeah!. In no time, will be able to watch, the new work we made in the studio. I've not participated directly on this, because I'm working in other project, but I can swear you,that the work of my coworkers is absolutely awesome.

Take a look at ---> Keytoon

More news, soon!! ;)

-EE-

Flushed Away.

2006-12-02T12:33:00.000+01:00

At last this movie has been released in my country, here they call it "Ratonpolis"............I've never understood why in my country translate the titles of the movies in this weird way.............

Well, I left the theater with a big smile in my face, because this time the movie is good, very good. The principal mistake in this animated movies is the story. But this time we are talking about Aardman, and like in Wallace & Gromit, the story is simple, but is told in a marvelous way. I never thought, that the movie is boring or not interesting, nooooooooo, the movie is full of ingenious and ironic gags, and I was hooked for the full movie. The characters are very well definite, and I loved the character of Rita, an independent but very charming character, I simply loved it. The funniest character/s for me were without doubts, "Le Frog", and his gang of frogs, they were simply awesome characters with the most funny animation I see in the last year. :)

In the other hand, the slugs (the characters that Dreamworks sold us as the "funny" characters of the movie)..............well, for me they are funny, the first two times that they show us, but the other 100 times they are............I don't know...........typical??..........well, I guess it's me....but I don't like them.

The technical aspects.........blowed me away. The animation is awesome, full of marvelous poses for the characters, and they catch, very good, the "stop-motion" style for the body and the lipsync. Very good work :)

In a few words........The movie is a very good movie......for me is better than "Ice Age 2", "Over The Hedge" and "Open Season", and funnier, but not better, than "Cars" (sorry, I'm a "pixar-freak".... ^_^)

If you have the opportunity, don't lose it, and go to see it on theaters, I can swear you, that you are gonna have a very good time ;)

Flushed Away

P.D: Thanks a lot to Sonia & Manu, for their help with my english. I love you guys!! ;)

-EE-

I know, I know........

2006-11-27T12:28:00.000+01:00

I know, that ultimately I don't update this blog very often..........and I know that I don't have any excuses, but............the only thing I can say, is that we have a lot of work at Keytoon, that's reminds me, that we've created a little blog, where we are planning to put all the crazy stuff we do, to relax ourselves. Take a look ;)

Keytoon Team

So, when I arrive to my home, the only thing that I'm doing, is playing Kingdom Hearts 2, an awesome game, that I recommend to everyone who loves Disney, Square, and good games. The story is simply astonishing, and the animation very, very good. I'm in the beginning of the game, but I'm completely hooked. :)

In other things, David Llopis, has updated his blogs, and he puts there a lot of animation resources. You can see it at--------> Llopis Animation Blog

Ok. Until the next update..................maybe in a year or two :-P

Pixar's new short!!

2006-10-16T01:30:00.000+02:00

Yeah, at the Chicago International Film Fest Pixar has showed his latest shortfilm..... Lifted!

This time the story is about aliens, abductions, and sleeping farmers. If you wanna know something more about the shortfilm, you just have to read the extensive review that Ain't It Cool News has made about the film. Warning: spoilers inside!!!

And here are two images of the short.

The poster:

And an image of the young alien:

Enjoy it!

-EE-

Navone's Tutorial

2006-10-09T17:52:00.000+02:00

I know, that this tutorial has been released, by Victor, a few weeks ago, but until now, I had not be able to take a deeper look at it........... and I think it's pure gold!!!

Seriously, you have to take a look at this awesome tutorial. It clarifys some aspects of how to use the classic principles of animation in a short shot of just 10 frames. There you have a clear explanation of how and why to use the squash & stretch (in a subtle way), the arcs , the overlaps on the eyebrows, the anticipation..........as I said, pure gold!!

Here's the link ---> Navone's Tutorial

Enjoy!

-EE-

Just a little update......

2006-10-08T20:06:00.000+02:00

Yeah.......just a little update, making new links in my friends section, to some of the coworkers in Keytoon.

I added some links to a few more blogs, I usually see through the day. You can find them, under the "links" section.

Until the next update ;)

-EE-

Back to the normality (more or less)

2006-10-01T18:46:00.000+02:00

Ok, at least I fixed the old posts. You can access to them by the "Previous Posts" section, under my "links" section.

You can't post any comments in the olds posts, but anyways, if you want to post some comments, just write in the newest post ;)

Well, from now on, all will work nicely........ I Hope :P

-EE-

A Few Problems

2006-09-30T13:22:00.000+02:00

I've been having some problems with the blog these days..... I'm not sure how, but it seems that I deleted the old blog from blogger, and i lost all the old posts.

Right now, I'm trying to recover all this posts (they aren't necessary, but I'd like to have they).

Well, back to work. Hopefully in a few days, all will be back to normality