Archive for April, 2009

Well, here I present you the latest work I’ve been doing. This is the video clip of  Begging the waves, the latest single from Lídia Pujol, a Catalan singer / songwriter that I did not know until this work and whose music has pleasantly surprised me, highly recommended. In her latest album released to date, “Els amants Lilith” she collects songs from the folk tradition, collected around the villages of Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Isles, from the mouths of those elder women who sang to her. Those songs are sung in Catalan language but even  though, they are beautiful and… how many of  us hear a lot of music without knowing what they are saying?. Anyway, this single Begging the waves move away a bit from popular music for something a bit more ….actual and it is the germ of a new album.

In this case, the video clip is directed by Jesús Manuel Montané (at the time, my boss) and produced by Grupo Estudio. I have been in charge of production design, making the initial sketches to define the aesthetic of the video (was not that hard because  Jesus has the ideas quite clear from the beginning) and been responsible for the matte painting and the “flying objects” that you can see in the final video. For the moment, given that it is in promotion I can’t show you the full matte painting that was used for the video, but you can see quite well at the end of the song (as well as in the back of the single). I was also responsible for redesigning the cover of the single, based on a photo of Lídia taken by Santi Yaniz.

You can download the song for free (for now at least) in Lidia’s site  www.lidiapujol.com, where you can listen to some of her songs (attention to the beautiful and dramatic La nina i son germá). Also available through iTunes.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

¿Do you remember the matte painting that I showed in this post?. Well, finally I managed to find the trailer of the movie  the matte painting was made for, so here you have the video. As you’ll see the matte was used as the background at the begining of the sequence (though the guys at Neorender put it to 3D, they are cracks, period). This trailer shows part of a 10 minutes sequence we shoot some time ago. I also designed part of what you can see at the inside of the club, as the flags and the sword used by the main character….. What do you think?