JAVIER LEON

DVein / Chello Odisea.

2011-07-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

One of our first projects at VANDO, but one of the most beautiful ones.
Direction, Art Direction and Modeling by DVein.
CG and Compositing Supervision by VANDO.
My Role CG Supervisor. Also did the textures/shading and lighting of the whole spot.

DVein / Terminix

2011-07-06T18:30:00.000-07:00

At VANDO we worked with DVein on Terminix 2011 Campaign.
It was such an amazing experience to work with them. They directed the 4 spots and also did the Art Direction.
VANDO did the CG and postproduction of the spots. Making of coming soon!
My Role was CG Supervisor.

LEGOMANIA

2011-07-06T18:20:00.000-07:00

Worked on this commercial produced by Hornet Inc, and directed by Guilherme Marcondes.
I helped to win the pitch. The idea was to produce the same results using CG that what we would had got shooting the real LEGO characters. So I modeled, textured, lit and shaded the character for the pitch and we won it. The commercial used real life backgrounds and composited CG characters.
My role on the spot was to model and texture the main character, all the giveaways, most of the hero characters and the base LEGO man.
Here we have the images used on the pitch and the animation test on the pitch and the Director´s cut of the commercial.

LA NOIRE

2011-07-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

I was commissioned by Hornet Inc. to do a 3D logo for Rockstar game LA NOIRE.
It was a huge 10K render including the neon lights on and off, and so much more detail that what we can see on the game cover art.
It would had been amazing to see the huge billboard at Times Square in NYC.

Gabe Askew´s Uncle Ben.

2011-03-25T02:31:00.001-07:00

Another brilliant commercial from supertalented director Gabe Askew. If you haven´t seen it, you have to check out immediately his version of the Two Weeks videoclip, from Grizzly Bear. One of the most inspiring CG pieces I´ve ever seen.
So, I collaborated with Gabe and Hornet on this Uncle Ben´s spot. My responsibilities were modeling, texturing and lighting on the living room. I also helped Hornet to win the pitch. Here´s the final spot and one of the images of the pitch.

LAIKA. Toys R Us.

2011-01-07T15:09:00.000-08:00

I got another dream come true. Finally got work at Laika House. Laika is always been one of my favorite companies in the world, along with Aardman Animations.

Laika House is the Commercials division of Laika Entertainment, the people who made Corpse Bride and Coraline.

Worked on these spots for Toys R Us, directed By Nicholas Weigel.

My Role was LookDev Artist, and modeled, textured and shaded some of the props, vehicles and characters. Also did some hair system on characters.

I really look forward to work with them again in the future.

Toys R Us from Javier Leon "Karry" on Vimeo.

Hershey´s Carolers.

2010-12-11T11:24:00.000-08:00

We modeled the characters for this Hershey´s commercial. Produced at Aardman Animations and Directed by Bobby Proctor.

Beardworld. Nathan Love.

2010-11-03T02:38:00.000-07:00

I was so lucky to work again with the super talented people at Nathan Love, New York. The spot was directed by Anca Risca. My role was Lead CG Artist.

Oregon Lottery "Beard World" from Nathan Love on Vimeo.

AEP Grid Smart.

2010-11-03T02:32:00.000-07:00

I made these images for Director Peter Sluszka, from Hornet Inc. These are the renders I made for the pitch that we won. I´ll post the 8 spots that were produced soon.

The Flintstones 3D Pitch.

2010-11-03T02:26:00.000-07:00

made these images for Director Peter Sluszka, from Hornet Inc. The idea was to recreate a full CG version of the animated series The Flintstones. We didn´t win this time, I believe the spots were never made.

British Gas Call Back and Upsidedown.

2010-11-03T02:23:00.000-07:00

More spots we made at Hornet Inc. Directed by Guilherme Marcondes.

My role was CG Art Director on Call Back. And I modelled/textured the planet on Upsidedown. Also most of the interior elements were modeled by me on previous spots.

British Gas Call Back from karry on Vimeo.

British Gas Upsidedown from karry on Vimeo.

Aardman Centra.

2010-11-03T02:13:00.000-07:00

We made these 4 spots for Aardman Animations. Was a great chance for us to produce full spots for such a reputated company. The 4 spots were produced in 3 weeks.

McDonalds Happy Meal.

2010-06-23T20:32:00.000-07:00

This spot was produced at Hornet and an amazing team was put together to make it possible. Directed by Guilherme Marcondes and Character design by Peter de Seve (Ice Age, Finding Nemo, Bug´s Life). I´m responsible for the environment look development, and also modeling it and texturing.

McDonalds Happy Meal from karry on Vimeo.

Nathan Love / Chips Ahoy.

2010-06-17T08:09:00.000-07:00

I finally got a chance to work for Nathan Love. A really awesome studio in NYC.

My role here was Look Development, modeling, texturing and lighting on the beach shot.

Chips Ahoy! "Limbo" from Nathan Love on Vimeo.

Stopmotion set.

2010-03-02T16:32:00.000-08:00

I made this project as part of my personal demoreel. The intention was to recreate the feel of a traditional stopmotion set. I wanted to create an environment that was something in between Coraline and Wallace and Gromit, and that looked hand made.

Here we have some frames of the project and a Video. I made 100% of the design, modeling, texturing and lighting myself.

Thanks to Molinare Madrid for helping me rendering and compositing.

Stop-motion Set (CG) from karry on Vimeo.

British Gas / Hornet Inc.

2010-03-02T16:23:00.001-08:00

I started working for Hornet nearly 1 year ago, initially for the first British Gas spot to introduce CGI interiors and then moving successfully to full CGI spots including the exterior of the planets.

Produced at Hornet Inc NY and directed by Guilherme Marcondes.

I´m responsible for the CGI Art Direction and Supervision on them.

Bug Snuff.

2010-03-02T15:06:00.000-08:00

I modeled/textured these scorpions for Big Lazy Robot, for the video Bug Snuff. Presented on AMD´s Cinema HD at Siggraph 2009.

Compositing by Big Lazy Robot and animation by Hugo Garcia.

Snuff movie from Hugo Garcia on Vimeo.

Agora.

2010-03-02T12:02:00.000-08:00

Agora was directed by Alejandro Amenabar. It´s a really epic movie, the dimension of the sets and also of the visual effects was something we had not seen before in Spain.

The movie got 7 Goya awards including the Best Visual Effects for the team leaded by Felix Berges.

My job in the movie was to recreate part of the Library of Alexandria, and it was a very demanding job.

These are some pictures of the shots I worked on with Kepa Casado. I´m responsible for modeling, texturing and lighting.

There´s also the VFX Demoreel of the movie from El Ranchito VFX.

Making of Agora. from karry on Vimeo.

Camino.

2010-03-02T09:42:00.001-08:00

Camino is an amazing movie from Javier Fesser. I had the honor to work on it a couple of years ago. It really was a great experience. The postproduction was made at Molinare also.

We got nominated for a Goya for the best visual effects and the movie got 6 Goya awards.

I can´t recommend enough to everyone to watch it, but beware....it´s not a happy movie.

My work on it was to develop a photorealistic mouse, including modeling/shading/lighting and also hair system. I also worked on other shots of the movie, like the Cinderella´s castle that i also designed/modeled/lit and I helped developing the look of the Limbo sequence (the flowers sequence).

Making of Camino. from karry on Vimeo.

CG mouse from Victor Vinyals on Vimeo.

His Majesty Minor.

2010-03-02T03:53:00.001-08:00

I worked as Lead CG Artist for Molinare on the postproduction of this movie from Jean Jaques Annaud (Enemy at the Gates, The name of the Rose, Seven years in Tibet, The Bear...).

It was my first attempt to create CG that was looking like scale or plasticine models, and my responsibility was to develop the look of a sequence in which the main character was having a nightmare.

Look Development 3. from karry on Vimeo.

Look Development 2. from karry on Vimeo.

Look Development 1. from karry on Vimeo.

Furia Digital 2.

2010-03-01T06:34:00.000-08:00

We worked at Furia on this commecial for Sci-fi Channel that never got broadcasted.

I designed/modeled/textured the robot dog.

Directed by Carl Erik Rinsch.

Furia Digital.

2010-03-01T06:17:00.000-08:00

I joined Furia Digital in September 2005. It was a fantastic experience and I absolutely loved Barcelona.

We worked with RSA and Director Carl Erik Rinsch on different projects but these are my favourites.

El Rasca de la Once. I designed this character for the TV spot, also modeled/textured him and lit most of the shots.

My Blog.

2010-01-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone.

My name is Javier Leon. I´m a visual effects artist and I live in Spain with my wife and my lovely two daughters. I´m starting this blog to put together some of the work I´ve been doing during all this years.

I started my career 15 years ago as a graphic artist working for Cadiz University. When I was there I leaded the art department at Interdis, an investigation group that made Multimedia Software focusing on technical english and welding techniques.

After that i joined Cesiga, S.A., a software company in Pontevedra, in the north of Spain, as Director of the Multimedia Department.

Then I moved to the games industry, working on games like Commandos 2, Galleon, and Worms. I´m quite proud that the Worms franchise still uses the logo I designed 8 years ago.