This time I’m not going to write about rigs, nor animation, nor Blender nor Plumiferos.

She sleeps peacefully, laughs, sings, plays with her toys and I can’t do anything but staring at her with a silly face and my eyes wide open and sometimes watering of happyness. When she sees I’m working completely concentrated on my computer she comes by and ask me with her little sweet voice “Qué eshtásh hashendo ?” (whash aresh you doinsh ?) and the complex bone chain and the million constraints I had in my head go to hell. I grab her and seat her on my lap, and we start watching “bibujitos” (toons) as she says.

Serrat sings that no one can save them for suffering… would that be true ? Isn’t it just too cruel for us parents sentenced to constant and eternal worry ? When she was born we had to leave her in the hospital a couple of weeks. The longests of my life. I spend her first year waiting anxiously for her to grow up and overcome all the “baby” diseases. Now I wish she stays as she is: little, naughty, warm, loving…. and with me.

Her name is Rocío Muriel, I call her “la churu” because she’s my “churumbela”.

As you probably know the Blender Foundation is producing another Open Movie following the same scheme as in Orange Propject. This time it’s called Peach and again, teh quality of it is overwhelming.

So in order to reach the deadlines they have recruited external animators to work online (this is no salary and via internet).

I was blessed to join the “second unit” a dream team that includes Bassam Kurdali, Lee Salvemini, Bastian Salmela (all ex-Elephant’s Dream) and Daniel Martinez Lara (”pepeland”) one of the best animators I know. A real honour to work with these guys (more…)