StudioFael

Watch our Motion Graphics Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:50:00 +0000

This is a selection of Motion Graphics that were created using Photoshop and After Effects. We were hired by a Digital Signage company called SmartNet.

Watch our Animation DemoReel

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:30:00 +0000

Here is a compilation of the work we've done for Animation, Motion Graphics, Digital Signage and Game Design. StudioFael started off as a lab so we have a variety of types of jobs, you can expect us to focus more on our niches in the future.

StudioFael Demo Reel 2009-2010 from Palifael on Vimeo.

Watch our Illustrations

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:19:00 +0000

Here you can see some Illustrations we've made this year. We do anything From Concept Art to Promotional Illustration to Character Design.

Illustration Tutorials by Charles Bernard

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Mon, 30 May 2011 04:16:00 +0000

I've been looking for videos that can help people from my hometown improve their drawing skills (improving mine in the process). I found these Charles Bernard videos I found tremendously useful. you can find more at his ArtTrek website.

Form & Gesture.

Illustrators and Graphic Designers here aren't always aware of the influence Gesture Drawing can bring to the positions of a character. These affect the quality of the animation directly because greater gestures can bring a better illusion of Life from it.

Composition.

The Mexican Film Industry is a rough one because filmmakers have limited resources. This limits them to producing films where they can use resources they have at hand. However, this doesn't mean writers can't develop a great storyboard, register it and pitch it to a producer, or even crowdfund it. I believe this tutorial can help artists & writers create better illustrations for their concept art & storyboards.

Check out the rest of his tutorial at his youtube channel, so you can check out some samples.

The #gamedesign Daily publica contenido de StudioFael

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:14:00 +0000

The #gamedesign Daily, una revista formada de los tweets de miles de personas a través del internet. Publicó nuestras notas de Ficción Interactiva en su sección de Arte y Entretenimiento. Estamos más que agradecidos.

Agradecimiento de Vlambeer: Un tweet que aparece en su página principal.

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:09:00 +0000

Vlambeer nos menciono en su twitter y aparece un link a una ilustración que les hicimos en su página principal. Son los desarrolladores de Super Crate Box con el que Ganaron el Bytejacker Free Indie of the Year award, "BEST OF 2010 FREE TO PLAY PC" DE IGN, FRIDAY GAME OF 2010 de EDGE, BEST DEVELOPER OF 2010 de Blendo Games, HAPPIEST GAME de Solipskier y otros premios en lugares como Gravitybone y Flotilla.

STUDIOFAEL REEL 2009-2010

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:49:00 +0000

SUPER CRATE BOX, BYTEJACKER INDIE GAME OF THE YEAR 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:01:00 +0000

A Jewel from Richard William's The Animator's Survival Kit

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:45:00 +0000

Anyone that animates faces animating too much. We need to make sure that we do things simple, readable and with a correct staging. I find this Extract from Richard Williams' Animators Survival Kit VITAL for anyone wanting to improve and get more done simply.

Interactive Fiction (Storytelling)- 2 Scott McCloud and Character Profiles

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:32:00 +0000

When we started producing our own indie videogame one of our team members shakingly told us this: "Uhm, I don't mean to spoil anything for you guys, but I think the character needs more personality... Snake from Metal Gear used to smoke cigarrettes..." This along with Scott Steinberg's Video on Interactive Fiction and Jesse Schell's Book ART OF GAME DESIGN, made us stop on our tracks and evaluate the story we were telling, and the character gamers would have to use.

MORE STORY = NEW CHALLENGES

All teams have strengths and weaknesses, in our case, we have more people in the artistic department than in the programming department. Gameplay was our main concern at the beggining stages of production, power-ups, the whole gaming aspect. As gamers we recalled what things were gratifying about games similar to DENSO, but when it came to story there was a lot of work left to do.

BEFRIEND A WRITER

Ok, so I started as a comic book artist, not as a writer. It's easier for me to direct something by conceiving the storyboard first and then developing the story around it. I could easily say: "I'm an ASPIRING WRITER and will do a great job with absolutely no help" but that woul be falling into a trick by my ego. Writers are Writers, you CAN learn how to write by studying, but when it comes to doing things right, you need a Writer's perspective on your story AT LEAST, that way one can use the feedback to create something more interesting.

In the past, I have attended a couple of screenwriting classes as well as reading Syd Field's Screenplay: The Foundations for Screenwriting. An old employer also is pretty good with scripts and he helps out by giving us some feedback too. He always gave me tips on story, on character traits and motives as well as changes experienced by the character. However I have to admit... I was going to tell the story through cut scenes, more or less how Ninja Gaiden used to do on the NES, but changed my mind to a more dynamic approach:

TELL THE STORY THROUGH PLAY

BY ALLOWING THE PLAYER TO USE A MEMORABLE CHARACTER

Memorable (if not iconic) Characters have to relate with your player, that way they will keep on playing so they can have new experiences (all made through play), these experiences or this activity of PLAY is the way in which the narrative develops. The mind of our player is a creative jewel, I will paraphrase something Scott McCloud said in Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (watch image at the top to see the original).

1. "Closure in Games, is FAR from Continuous and ANYTHING BUT INVOLUNTARY".

2. "Every Act created in your GAME is PROGRAMMED for a SILENT PARTICIPANT TO PLAY OUT"

In our case, we are opting for a linear approach to presenting the main character of our videogame. The last game we played that had a mostly linear approach BESIDES USING INTERACTIVE FICTION was Uncharted 2. What can we, as indie game developers with absolutely no budget do to make to help the Industry? the industry is pretty much alive, even though it's not stable at the moment.

We believe that as indies, what we can do for the industry s is provide a PLATFORM for writers of interactive fiction to experiment on. We will humbly try to do so in at least one of our projects. We are still working on the way we will mix cutscenes with gameplay to never stop the action, we are also still working in our gameplay environment so we can ensure fun and engaging gameplay. I'll post some info we consider relevant and helpful for our venture, I hope this proves helpful for people out there too.

CREATING CHARACTER PROFILES

SCOTT MC CLOUD'S TALK ON TED

EXPLORE INTERACTIVE FICTION

STAN LEE ON MEMORABLE CHARACTERS (HALO WAYPOINT)

STAN LEE'S MESSAGE TO HIDEO KOJIMA

There is a previous article on Interactive Fiction I wrote, you can read it here.

Interactive Fiction (Storytelling) - 1

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:35:00 +0000

Ok so I read an article over @ Destructoid where Danny Bilson from THQ says that Cut Scenes are a last resort. I won't argue why, nor try to explain why, I think I'll try to share some of the things that have been done that are a little different than cut scenes.

Hideo Kojima

Split the Screen, Play while story unfolds at the same time. If you have people around you while you play they get immersed in the story also.

Eric Chahi

Though it has cutscenes, this word uses NO SPOKEN language to tell its story, it relies more on the language of cinema and ambience both graphically and in sound. One of my favorites.

Retro Studios

Whatever BioShock did for Interactive Fiction, MUST have been concieved first by Retro Studios in Metroid Prime for the GCN

Charles Cecil

This game sets the scenario instantly, then tells the story by NARRATING as if it were the main character remembering.

Last but not least I include a video where the guys Behind MASS EFFECT Talk about Interactive Storytelling.

Denso Indie Game Production- via Livestream

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Denso is StudioFael's first Videogame. An Arcade Shoot-em-up/ Side-Scroller that takes place in the year 2,500. All sprites are animated by people that were trained for free in our Studio. All people involved are from our hometown of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Some pictures of the training period:

"L'homme qui Plantait des Arbres" y "ROWLF" Recomendaciones de Hayao Miyazaki

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:47:00 +0000

Hemos estado muy ocupados trabajando en nuestro videojuego "DENSO". La naturaleza y detalles de este Videojuego Indie están siendo documentados y se presentarán al mismo tiempo que lo liberemos al Internet. Contamos con un pequeño equipo de colaboradores, mismos que por colaborar reciben diferentes tipos de capacitaciones prácticas.

Durante la producción del videojuego se reducirá la cantidad de posts a un par por mes, si bien ya no serán tantos como antes, pretendemos que tengan contenido un poco mas valioso para compensar el cambio en la frecuencia en las publicaciones. Bueno, al grano con el contenido:

He estado leyendo un libro de ensayos de Hayao Miyazaki, no se si todos lo conozcan, es el creador de peliculas como El viaje de Chihiro, Naussica & the Valley of the Wind, Conan el Niño del Futuro y Heidi. Sus mejores obras fueron distribuidas en américa por DISNEY gracias a John Lasseter, cabeza de Pixar. Su libro de ensayos me ha dado una visión más amplia de como debe nacer una organización como Disney o Studio Ghibli.

Día a Día, capítulo por capítulo, me he topado con un par de recomendaciones del grandísimo señor, tanto de historieta como de peliculas animadas. En esta ocasión les voy a compartir 2:

ROWLF- RICHARD CORBEN (1970) USA-

Esta historia revive a los clásicos cuentos de hadas según Miyazaki. En un ensayo dice que si su arte fuera pulido y "masajeado" podría pegar como una película en el mercado de los jovenes japones.

Descarguen ROWLF dando click AQUÍ.

L'HOMME QUI PLANTAIT DES ARBRES - FRÉDÉRIC BACK(1987) CANADA -

Miyazaki se sintió un fracaso al ver los cortometrajes de Back, en especial por la manera en que captura la naturaleza, menciona en un ensayo que Studio Ghibli pasaba por el infierno para poder capturar los movimientos de la naturaleza y se quedo abrumado al ver como Back inventó esta técnica de animación en su primer cortometraje "CRAC"(1981) y verla tomar perfección en "L'HOMME QUI PLANTAIT DES ARBRES":

Denso Game: Carlos Camacho

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:28:00 +0000

Carlos Camacho (http://subcultura.es/user/Dago) es ilustrador, diseñador gráfico y creador de historietas como "La Ultrateoría de Dago" y su futura proyecto "Skuller-o", reside en Culiacán, Sinaloa. De momento esta colaborando con StudioFael realizando animaciones y diseño de unos enemigos del videojuego "DENSO". Aquí mostramos unos bocetos que hizo para enemigos. En un futuro esperamos notificarles de sus proyectos de animación.

Watch us Working: The Making of Denzel Denso

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:02:00 +0000

Denzel Denso is StudioFael's first Videogame. An Arcade Shoot-em-up that takes place in the year 2,500. All sprites are animated by people that were trained for free in our Studio. All people involved are from our hometown of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Chiptunes-. The Guardian Legend de IREM

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:14:00 +0000

Chiptunes- ANAMANAGUCHI - Another Winter

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:53:00 +0000

Banda Chiptune de New York City, haciendo música con un Nes hackeado de 1985. Han hecho la música de Scott Pilgrim y tienen su canción Airbrushed en RockBand. http://www.myspace.com/anamanaguchi

Chiptunes: ENDLESS BATTLE

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:41:00 +0000

Chiptunes: HORNET MAN

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:36:00 +0000

Grandes Animadores: Miyazaki & Moebius

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:58:00 +0000

Un genio artista de la historieta francesa, Mr. Moebius y el mejor animador vivo del mundo Hayao Miyazaki, nos hablan de su amistad, y mutua influencia en sus trabajos. Les comparto esta joyita.

Chiptunes: CONCRETE MAN

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:30:00 +0000

ChIptunes: SPLASH WOMAN

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:17:00 +0000

Chiptunes: SLABB- INSTEAD

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Del Disco Glitter & Bleep

Chiptunes: Blademan

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:46:00 +0000

La tribu urbana del BitCulture está infectando al mundo entero, así que decidí postera toda la musica Chiptune de calidad con la que me tope:

Ilustración para Tributo a Megaman de UDON COMICS

noreply@blogger.com (Miguel Angel (Palifael)) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:13:00 +0000

Watch live streaming video from studiofael at livestream.com