pablo lizardo - digital artist

little update!

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:23:25 +0000

Hi everybody!, as is being usual in the last time I leave my blog away and abandoned :S

I want to write because i have been doing a few interesting things in the last time and i want to share with you!.

Also my time here at Northampton working in tube project is ending so there’re coming times of changes, back to my lovely country and keep working and living my normal life close to my family and friends.

One good thing that happens a few days ago is that i participate in the contest to model the backpack of sintel and with the help of Jarred de Beer ( http://www.jarred.co.za ) doing the textures we get a very good result! I only do the mesh. I don’t know what happens with it finally but we are very happy with the result! check it:

Also for Sintel I made this proposal for the logo contest, very difficult because there’s a lot of very good and cool works posted.

I’m my free time I help to some cool projects like advertool which is managed by my big and best brother Santiago Lizardo. I only do the logo , and it’s very simple because they are just starting.

Talking about design, when i went to Harvard for the LibrePlanet Conference I had the possibility to know a few cool people who shows interested in people who design using only free software like inkscape or gimp. So my first collaboration was on libre.fm a project to bring free music trough the web! I made the logo a few weeks ago and recently i made a proposal for the web.

Meanwhile i was working too in my own short project, called Victor, i have been doing a lot of improvements, now the main set is almost done! I’ve modeled a lot of houses and cars and props to “fill” the blocks of the city. The main character receive a lot of fixes too, in the mesh and in the materials, now looks nicer! Now I’m finishing some problems in the script that i need to solved before I keep going forward in the project :/ Here’s some images of the movie production:

I dont have too much images from tube, I’m going to write a full post about Tube in the next few days. Anyway here’s some random stuff i did:

Last but not least, a few days ago I bought a pogo stylus for draw with the iphone and i made some silly sketches in the bus

Well, that’s all folks!

new drawings!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:27:23 +0000

In some free time in argentina and then here in US I did this drawings, hope you like it!

All the images are made in myPaint, only the last one has a few effects done in gimp.

my first post from Tube project!

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:13:40 +0000

Hello friends!, I copy/paste this post that I write for the Tube project Blog:

Well, first of all, I’m gonna to introduce my self: I’m Pablo Lizardo from Argentina, to be more accurate I’m from here! sooo far away!! As Fateh and Bassam told in the latest post, I was accepted as intern to “work” for the next 3 months in this awesome project called “Tube”

I came just six days ago, so all is new for me, luckily all the people in the team and at the hampshire college are great and really kind. So there wasn’t problems with the adaptation time. Before I start talking about the project, I want to make a special mention to Bassam, Fateh and Jarred who give me all I need, and are always asking if there’s all going right!

Well, do I’ve mentioned that the town/city (Northampton, MA) is really beautifull? i think not! All the buildings and houses are like the movies

Another little thing to mention is that all has a lot of patience with me , because my english is really bad XD, I guess that get laughs at my back! But i think that i’m learning a lot, so i think that in … 3 months I’ll be ready to communicate with english people

Lets talk about important things! The food is really strange, I miss the argentinean food! but I must adapt to this new forms of eat! I feel lucky because I came with Yerba Mate.

From the first day I start to work in the Nerdodrome,It’s a very nice place where a lot of cool things happen!, There’s also a project called Caldera which is produced in the same place, fortunately here we have a lot of new computers to do all the work together without disturb to anybody.

In the project, I’m mostly dedicated to draw some boards for the animatic. So I’m doing a lot of 2d stuff, sometimes i have things to do in 3d but not too much. I don’t have problem with that because I love to draw and make sketches!

Here’s some images that I did in this few days. Keep on touch for more blog updates!

- Pablo

new method to do camera projection in blender 2.5

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:14:26 +0000

till now there are two ways to do camera projection in blender: Sticky textures and UV Projection modifier. Both work well but the way to use those in a bit confusing. Now you can simply press U when you are viewing form your camera and click on the “Projecto from view” option, and blender will generate a map from what are you viewing with your camera, so no more than that!. Then just place a texture and set the coordinates as UV.

Tutorial de Mapeado UV para blender 2.5

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:32:22 +0000

Hace aproximadamente 2 años (!) hice un tutorial para mapear mediante coordenadas UV una caja de Té. En esos tiempos todavia para aplicar texturas mediante uv existia un modo de trabajo llamado UV Face Select que se encargaba especialmente de esa tarea. Sin embargo con el tiempo ese modo desaparecio y la funcion de Unwrap y seleccion de caras para UV se incluyo en el modo edicion (sabia decision!)
Hoy en dia con la version de desarrollo de blender 2.5 hay un par de diferencias en el modo de mapeado de la textura pero son solo diferencias en cuanto a la ubicacion de los botones y nombres de algunas funciones.
Prepare entonces un video mostrando como realizar en blender 2.5 esta vital tarea para todo usuario y entusiasta del 3d!

antes de que sea demasiado tarde…

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:07:30 +0000

Uf!, ya no sirven las excusas! en estos tiempos ya deben saber que soy un colgado!
Bueno, tenia ganas de publicar al menos qué me mantuvo ocupado durante este tiempo, que producciones estuve realizando.

animatica – victor despierta!

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:16:25 +0000

Luego de varias charlas con gente por IRc como venomgfx y malefico me terminaron de convencerme de que me deje de boludear con el 3d y antes de seguir perdiendo el tiempo me ponga a desarrollar la animatica. Es cierto que uno siempre piensa que lo tiene todo en la cabeza y entonces lo vas haciendo sobre la marcha en blender, pero en realidad no es tan asi, de hecho por algo no terminé ningun proyecto, es porque nunca escribi ni dibuje los planos necesarios, nunca determiné las acciones que el personaje va a desarrollar (ni expresiones,shapes faciales), y ovbiamente tampoco sabia cuanto iba a durar porque no tenia idea de la duracion de cada toma.
Entonces hice un stop en la produccion y me propuse hacer la animatica, claro que no es tan sencillo como decirlo!, paso como un mes de esa charla y recien hoy me puse a laburar en el storyboard y el sonido (sugerencia de malefico tambien) y mi sorpresa fue muy buena al notar que la cosa empieza a tomar forma y me deja en claro muchos aspectos que me harán la tarea mil veces mas sencilla de lo que era antes.
En fin, no mas palabras , les dejo lo que pude hacer hasta ahora en la animatica. El corto no es mucho más prolongado que esto, se extiende masomenos 1 minuto ó 1 minuto y medio más.

EDITADO: Ooops! hubo un problemita con el video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XP_potw8fY
http://www.vimeo.com/7270922
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pablolizardo/4047203033/

Multi Camera Edition in Blender Sequence Editor – Mockup…

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:36 +0000

Hello, this post is in english because the topic is focus in the blender developer community!

Recently i see how Edius work when has multiples cameras or shots of the same sequence. Edius has an multicam feature that let you to choose which camera do you want to get active seeing all the others cameras as well at the same time.

So, i made a mockup for blender to see if there’s a posibility to someone work on it.

In fact, i don’t know if it’s a good idea, but i feel that i like to have it on blender.

Well, nothing more, sorry by my poor english.

Here’s an explanation of how it works…

First, you have to select what strip (or channel) will be ready for multicam feature. I think that a button in the properties panel will be the best choice, whatever, an icon or tag must be visible in over the strip.

Then, have to change to MultiCamera Mode (it should be in the “combobox” with “Image Preview”, “Sequencer” , “Histogram”, etc). When you enter to MultiCam Mode the other strips get muted.

We are now ready to start editing the sequence! Press Play and by pressing the numbers of the channel in your Numpad you will be setting which strip will be the active! As simple of that!

Press Pause or Stop to finish your live editing.

I hope you understand and like the idea!!

modelos para proyecto!

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:10:58 +0000

Hace un tiempo cuando se termino el taller de blender que di aca en casa tiramos la idea de hacer un cortometraje cortissimo, tiramos una idea, una estetica y sin guion ni mucho mas empezamos a modelar como para juntar todo el material un dia y ponernos a mezclar recursos, finalmente la super juntata de blenderheads no surgio vaya a saber uno porque, hay gente que tiene mas entusiasmo que otra supongo, ya nos juntaremos!…

En fin, en ese intervalo de tiempo, hace unas semanas prepare un par de modelos para el proyecto, son elementos que van a componer el escenario (parque de diversiones, carnival, circo, etc… de miedo claro! )

Siempre me gustaron las sagas de lucasarts y cuando dijeron carnaval + deviertido + macabro + deforme se me vino a la cabeza ese escenario de Sam&Max. Mi honor y humilde homenaje blendero a aquellos artistas tan geniales!

Aca van las imagenes! saludos amigos!

proyecto caminar – part II

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:01:45 +0000

bueno, aprovechando el envion cuelgo más capturas del estado en el que quedó el proyecto caminar … si, otra vez lo dejé por cuestiones de laburo.

Cada vez me falta menos!

un abrazo y espero sus comentarios!

chequeen esos tiempos de render!

Frecuentemente realizo anotaciones sobre renders para recordar los detalles y poder corregirlos luego.

El personaje principal, estilizado y algo riggeado … (me acordé! @malefico: tengo que pasarte este rig!)