Ok, so here is my first post in spanish, this explains a bit why I don’t want to work as a computing engineer, at least in Spain, basically what this whole thing says is that we don’t have any legal rights:

“El pasado 23 de octubre el Ministerio de Educación presentó las fichas de los nuevos títulos de grado y master de todas las ingenierías menos la de informática cumpliendose así los peores presagios. La excusa ha sido que nuestra ingeniería no tiene atribuciones y que la informática es una materia transversal y por lo tanto no debe de concentrarse en una titulación concreta.

Las consecuencias de esta situación son:

- Desaparece la ingeniería en informática. Se cumple el deseo de muchos. Por fin desapareceremos y dejamos el camino libre al ejercito de aficionados y “reciclados” para erigirse como los nuevos y verdaderos informáticos. Dejaremos de ser un problema.

- Nuestros títulos no serán homologables a ninguno al no existir correspondencia con los nuevos títulos.

- Nunca tendremos atribuciones profesionales. No la hemos tenido hasta ahora y al desaparecer ya no las tendremos nunca. No sabemos que pasará con los nuevos títulos aunque por su caracter local a cada universidad no parece posible que lleguen a tener atribuciones.

- Los títulos actuales no tendrán validez. Al no poder homologarnos con los nuevos títulos que pudieran aparecer en el futuro nuestros actuales títulos iran perdiendo validez y se quedarán como el recuerdo del mayor engaño del sistema educativo español.

- Los actuales estudiantes están siendo objeto de engaño. Las universidades no informan temiendo una huida en masa que dejarían vacías a las escuelas de informática.

- No podremos trabajar en Europa. Al no existir por lo dicho en los puntos anteriores, nuestros títulos no se corresponderán a ningún título europeo. Las nuevas fichas de ingenieros de telecomunicación recogen las competencias de la informática por lo que serán ellos quién se queden con nuestra parcela de trabajo.

- Las universidades tendrán autonomía para inventar títulos relacionados con la tecnología de forma local y diferente entre ellas. Las universidades privadas harán su agosto y por fin todo el sistema universitario cumplirá su sueño de que todo el mundo pueda ser informático con independencia de sus estudios.

http://www.cpiia.org/ ::-::    http://www.huelgainformatica.es/“

These days I’ve been moving the whole website to this one, my new domain (javieredo.com).

The main reasons why I choose to change my domain name after two years were that with this one I think that the domain name feels way more personal and that right now that I’m pretending to get a work by next year (2009) I just thought that this one will be the exact moment to change it so my whole “professional” carreer will be referred to one website and not to several ones.

Which means that my first “serious” reel will be found here so for instance the only reference that companies will find to my website will be just this domain.

I’ve also changed the CMS from dotClear to Wordpress and, for instance, the theme which I think that feels way more elegant.

I’m still using my own gallery system and I found a way to make it work almost-seamlessly with wordpress, which is something that I didn’t had previously with dotClear… So I think that this change is definitively for good.

So come on! take a look at my website!

I hope you like it. Continue reading ‘New domain! javieredo.com (formerly cgexavi.com)’

During these days I’ve been helping out a friend with the recording of his new shortfilm (untitled) where I have been production assistant (kind of).
I absolutely loved the idea of being in the set during the recordings, there was a great team of people, more than 30 people (I think the final count was 37 or so), which I think that is a really large team when it comes to shortfilms (at least in spain) unfortunately, (for me) there weren’t going to be any VFX (there are FX, but not VFX ) so I couldn’t help him as much as I would liked, anyways this shortfilm is gonna rock! we all know it, I hope I can help him out for his next shortfilm with some VFX stuff hehe

I will update this entry as soon as this shortfilm has some Title or poster. more info, images, photos and all kinds of stuff about this shortfilm can be found here.

Last two days I’ve been working on a small update for my own gallery system (CG Gallery). Unfortunately I don’t have much time to spend woking on it, taking into account that right now I’m studying stuff for college and working also on my modeling reel. So this small update was just to fix some bugs I’ve found since last version when working with users.

Btw I have to say that about a month ago I added to the CG Gallery some super-cool unobtrusive javascript I found on the net called Lightbox (v2) by Lokesh Dhakar which does some animation, preloading and fades black the back of the entire browser window when opening images, I’ve tested it and works fine so I thought, why not?
The script is distributed under the Creative Commons License and works like a charm so, GO GET IT NOW!

Last weekend I attended a vray & compositing workshop conducted by JJ Palomo (a.k.a 3DBlasphemy) in PepeSchoolLand.

I’ve learned that you don’t need to do any “super-cool” render to archieve highly realistic results, it’s everything in the compositing phase… just with a decent render you can make it rock after the compositing phase (so you can have quicker renders). I’ve also learned to know when to work more on details or just making it simpler if it is not going to be closer to the camera, this may sound stupid but it’s impressive how can some really simple almost-cubed-shaped models work when you’re not making closeups of them (and if those are moving and with some motion blur…even better! lol) and a lot of quick-tricks that he teached us for archieving stunning results faster…

He also teached us some things they have been working on since he founded his own VFX Studio, BLR - Big Lazy Robot.

Finally I’ve decided to work just on my modeling reel which is supposed to be available on early 2009.