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3DTotal: Hi could you tell us a bit about yourself?
Jorge : Hey, my full name is Jorge Enrique Baldeón (A.K.A. JEB). Im 26 years old, live in Guayaquil / Ecuador / South America. I graduated in Graphics Designs at ESPOL University in 2004 and I'm about to get an Audio Visual Production degree also there. Currently working on my own mini freelance studio called ramp02 doing mostly web game graphics and some broadcast animation.
3DTotal: What first got you started in 3D?
Jorge: Its a little weird story because I used to hate 3D graphics. Always been a traditional artist (drew, paint, even sculpted a little in the old days) and I always thought that the computer did all the work, I didn't dislike computers in fact I have used Photoshop and Corel Draw a lot but I didn't like the look of old chrome spheres 3D graphics. A couple of months before I started Graphics Design at college I saw that I |
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had to take a 50 hour 3D class. I wondered what it was going to be like, I have never used this kind of thing before, so I went onto the web to see what I could find to try for free and be prepared for the class. I found a little program called Anim8or (www.anim8or.com), its small but very powerful... you can do anything with it from modelling to final animation with a nice looking render. To my surprise 3D graphics gathered everything I liked of traditional art: sculpture modelling, 2D painting, photography techniques and if that wasn't enough I could make it move. I felt like it was a natural step in my art learning curve. As I advanced my 3D knowledge I also advance in software. I went through some programs until I settled for 3ds max, It was the one that felt more natural, Maya has great tools too, but i guess its just personal taste. All the way through college I practiced 3D as a hobbie, while my classmates where learning Photoshop lens flare I was doing my Ik rigs, 3D taught me more about computer graphics than anything else. After I finished and graduated I started to get calls from people that wanted me to work with them in animation projects, mostly TV commercials. So then I started my career as a 3D artist. Totally unexpected.
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3DTotal: Where do you get your inspiration from to create your characters?
Jorge: All over the Internet, classic art, movies. Some of my favourite 3D artists are James Ku, Pascal, Wiro. Classic painting will always be an immediate source of inspiration for example Degas, Diego Velazquez, Ingres..to name a few.I know they have totally different styles from mine, but their art got me thinking. |
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A mixture of all the world´s art and the society I live in make me create stuff. People tell me I tend to mix totally cute stuff and make it evil, I guess that's a good view on what I do, I like the contrast.
3DTotal: Out of all of them, which one is your favourite?
Jorge: I guess the Napalm Chicken is my favourite character, as it is for everyone else that has seen it. Funny thought, that it was one of my earliest models when I was totally new to 3D, I'm always thinking I could improve stuff in my models, but not that one, I wouldn't touch it. It was inspired by a salt dispenser a friend had in her house.
3DTotal : You used your characters Malo, Feo and Gordo in your very cool animation Squik, do you think your will do a follow up to it or do you think you will create another animation with some of your other characters?
Jorge : They where created for the animation, it was my graduation thesis. I decided to let them rest for now because I have a new script in the works for a new film I want to produce, this will be totally free so I can get to do whatever I want. Ill be sure to post it when its done. Most of my other characters are going to be
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merged into a game project I have started
with a friend of mine
(including sqüik characters), I guess with time all of them will have their
screen time in one way or another.
3D Total : Do you think Malo, Feo and Gordo will go on any other little adventures?
Jorge : Hopefully, if i ever get the chance, money and time, I would like to redo the animation with more eye candy and better effects. Would love to see them in a TV series or something.
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