Jose Burgos Technical Director Reel 2006

[AndreKling]

AMAZING!!! You hv worked in some really nice projects, very good work. congrats.
Andre

[jdburgos]

Thanks Andre

[Goro]

Awesome Reel,
Do you have a shotbreakdown available?

*****stars from me

[Ajouz]

man, i don't want this reel to end... it is that good! Thanks for posting

[Silverwing]

Wow absolutely amazing work!
Phantastic and absolutely photorealistic
shots. Just stunning... I think that is
frontpage stuff! I´d give you 10 stars
it they were avaliable...

[jtico]

Great work there. :thumbsup: Congratulations!

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great reel.

Plugged.
-R

[Zork]

Crazy man, THAT IS AMAZING !
Please tell me what is this music?
And how soft your used maya, max ?

55555 :)

[rebolt]

Really awesome reel man. You have worked on quite big projects. I really liked the X-Men sequence.

[JmTm00]

Haha...thats the work :] I liked projects that You work for

[NyneDown]

Cant go wrong with an animation of a mouse humping a nintendo controller :P

I can honestly say that I had no idea that those enviroments in The Da Vinci Code were cg...great work man, and congrats on the front page plug...well deserved stuff for sure.

[PeterSanitra]

Can you explain to us, how much of the work in those shots was done by you?:rolleyes:

[Tut Ankh Amon]

haha awesome!
I never even noticed those sets on The DaVinci Code were fully digital :D

[kabojnk]

Absolutely fantastic work. I remember loving the visual effects in the first episode of Stargate Atlantis. It was amazing to see someone involved with it! Brilliant work all around.

[FRENZIEDmind]

Spectacular! Thanks for sharing!

[baiyusong]

Hey Jose ! this is Tony.
happy to see this reel turned out, amazing collection. And we know it shows up only small part of your ability. Great to work with you man :D

5 stars !

[ma11ohad]

Aside from your amazing work and skills. This reel was very entertaining to watch. Beautiful editing! But I am sure you don’t need me to tell you that.

Thank you for sharing!

[jdburgos]

Crazy man, THAT IS AMAZING !




Please tell me what is this music?
And how soft your used maya, max ?




Music: is from Bajo fondo Tango Club, and the song name is Montserrat.
software: Mainly Maya and LW, in general I use LW for modeling and sometimes for rendering.
and Maya for animation, particles, and mental ray for rendering.

I used MDD (point oven)to transfer animation from LW to MAYA and MAYA to LW
I used LW to render the particles from Maya with Hyper voxels

Thanks for the feed Back

Jose Burgos
Lead Technical Director
Rainmaker
www.jdburgos.com (http://www.jdburgos.com/)

[jdburgos]

Hey Jose ! this is Tony.




happy to see this reel turned out, amazing collection. And we know it shows up only small part of your ability. Great to work with you man :D

5 stars !
__________________
Baiyusong




Hey Tony,

thanks a lot man, is great to work with you too :thumbsup:


Jose Burgos

[darthmaya]

Wow, amazing reel! Defintely worthy of the frontpage. Congrats!:)

[thE-AzRaiL]

Amazing! really great work

[shtl]

waow, just wow !

[ChristopherP]

Awesome reel, Jose! :buttrock:

And the Nintendo-loving mouse was the perfect finish, imho :)


Greets
Christopher

[Delude]

any other words than great, awsome and astonishing would be misused....
though i dont like the music the visual part is astonishing.
you must bee an escapee, am i right?

ps: when i heard that the davinci was full of visual effects, i had always wondered where they were since thats not properly action or sci-fi... now i know. and makes me feel stupid as hell.

[DimitrisLiatsos]

This really defines the meaning of the term REEL. Very pro stuff and amazing reel.

Also thanks for sharing those shots, i didn't know that those shots on Da Vinci CODE where digital.

:)

[loocas]

Amazing work mate! :thumbsup: I really dig such reels like yours!

Awesome skills shown there!

Keep the great work up man! :buttrock:

oh, btw: http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif from me ;)

[TAVO]

congratulations !!, awesome vfx, i really love it. :bounce:

[FreespaceFilms]

Awesome demoreel.

That's some amazing work, and most of those shots I thought were made by entire teams. Now I find out it was made by you alone. Did you model the whole Atlantis city? How many polygons are in that city, I was always curios.

[KINGOFPAIN]

awsome! :thumbsup:

[traspies]

awesome!

what did software you use? 3d, compositing,...a lot of work...great work.
congratularions!



----
I'll keep diggin'
'til I feel something

[maxspider3000]

realy amazing real ... It's so greet to know the man who did this vfx works on this movies ...
but I hope that you tell us the things that you did in every shoot ... and I hope If you put a downloadable link for the real ...

5*****man ... but if there is more you deserve it :D


- Yusuf

[VonMarsch]

Impressive CV :thumbsup:

[Bao2]

Siempre me había preguntado cómo la iglesia había dejado rodar imágenes en esa catedral asi que supuse que primero se rodó la catedral y luego fue usado en composite más tarde con la toma de los actores en una habitación verde. Pero que la catedral fuera CG no me lo esperaba. Impresionante la catedral, voy a volver a ver la peli de nuevo...

Wow the cathedral... I am going to see again the movie... I was thinking it was a real background to composite with actors in green background, but It is totally CG!!!

[elnady]

Awesome reel mate :)
I would love to see some making of
Good job

[MiguelAngeloCBT]

Really great dude !! o_O

[Spc]

Simply amazing!
I am speachless.
You did some really amazing projects and everything is top edge quality.
10 stars!

:bowdown:

[InAction]

I would also like to know exactly what you did in those scenes, if it were you alone or a team more of?

The demo reel makes it look like you were the only one behind all those shots, especially for people who doesn't know what being a lead technical director is about. Cheerios. :arteest:

[PINTERGIRL]

so oooo well,,,,good!1

[JakeJK]

My only critiqe is I think you should add your e-mail to your reel. That way you'll get spammed by job offers!:thumbsup:

[flyingP]

man, i don't want this reel to end...

lol was thinking much the same while I was watching it, impressive stuff

[Rod Seffen]

Obviosuly this is highest quilty material, but I dont quite see the point in showing the reel unless you tell us specifically which pats are your work.
I'm not entirely certain what a technical director does, so I don't know what to congratulate you for.

[webhead]

Nice reel! Would you be able to give some details about how the effect of the lovely Mystique turning into a normal human was acheived. Thanks in advance.

[ringzero]

Like others I`d like to point out your reel could be considered misleading untill you describe your part in the shots.

TD may mean you just did camera matching - it may mean you did none of the modelling - perhaps you did all the modelling - who knows?

No point saying "I used MAYA"

[Quantium]

Great work Jose! I wanted to know, during the before & after parts of Firewall, how was that prismatic wipe effect done?

[Pasargad]

Amazing job, lots of details:thumbsup:

[Shogunato]

fantastic work !!!
congratz !

[jdburgos]

Awesome demoreel.




That's some amazing work, and most of those shots I thought were made by entire teams. Now I find out it was made by you alone. Did you model the whole Atlantis city? How many polygons are in that city, I was always curios.




The number of people working on the shots would depent on the project.



this is not 1 man project, I had to do a lot of the work but not all the work is done for me.

I will explain more in depht soon, I gotta go right now :buttrock:

Thanks
Jose Burgos
Lead Technical Director
Rainmaker
www.jdburgos.com (http://www.jdburgos.com/)

[ipdesigner]

*KUDOS to all involve for this Amazing Work:thumbsup:

[Gord-MacDonald]

just beautiful!

5 stars

Gord

[maantas]

wow... that's totally incredible...
i liked the mouse, at the beginning i didn't recognised its not real, of course til it started "playing" with Nintendo, or whatever that was...
i have a question if i may...
the shot from davinchi code, u show ware frame of Church interior, is it just a "dummy" mesh, like for fast viewing? i mean the capitels(top part of pillar) (if that's English word) of pillars where very detailed, but in were frame those look like dummies, is it correct, or u did some miracles with displacement or smth? would be hard to believe...

[liquidcol]

fantastic work... congratulations !!!

[PhuongDPh]

:eek: :eek: :eek: awesome !
I like X-Men 3 the most, and I must see Smartparts
Thanks

[Wongedan]

yeah!!
you know what is my most favorite part??

the breakdowns!(wires) , I have the same taste like you, put the wire less than 1 sec :p

[KaDDD]

excellent reel demos
in parts ,i'm very suprised by the environements , perfect job :)
keep it up !

kadeg

[DigitalChameleon]

Love your work, great job :thumbsup:

[rcronin]

Hey Jose, stick to soccer o.k.?! Kidding. The mouse steals the show. But hey, I'd do the same thing in a maze, all by myself with nothing to hump but a usb slot. So are you looking to move on to bigger things these days or just posting your reel for feedback?
R.

[Maya4fun]

Hello Jose,
it is an excellent piece of art you present here.
What do you use for modeling ? Maya? Max?
By advance thanks.

Emmanuel.

[Menesis]

Hey Maya4fun, he already answered that question on page 2 or 3 (the answer is maya and lightwave :P)

And VERY impressive reel indeed! :applause:

[Bartek|3D]

Great work Jose! It was a pleasure working with you at Rainmaker. You not only have talent but you're the uber-technical directing-all rounder! Killer editing on the reel too. And for you all who are asking, Jose may not have done specifically everything in each shot but I'm sure that's the case for some of these...TD's can call shots their own since they have their hand is most of it.

Good luck on your killer next project...arrrgh matey ;)

Ciao,
Bartek

[jaxxxirons]

Is amazing, I wanna be like you

[PureMoxi]

The work is amazing. As others have said, I would really dig seeing a shot breakdown as well as a little more detail on your involvement and perhaps a little "making of" to see how you pulled off such great effects on some choice shots. Don't take it as negative, however, just thirsting for more knowledge and to see more of your thought process. Great editing and music choice by the way...

[jalingo]

It's nice to see top caliber CG work. I mean, except for the robots, you would never have guessed what you're looking at was CG. Combined with the excellent camerawork this stuff is amazing. I will be watching for more fantastic productions from you. Thanks for sharing your reel.

[XianPalintir]

Don J!! :D Felicidades!!! Muy buen trabajo. Cuando fui a cine no me di cuenta de los escenarios de Da Vinci (porque se opto por esto y no por grabar?) y me mato, me hizo cagar de la risa el raton!, jaja, buenisimo. Me siento orgulloso mostrándole a mis compañeros lo que puede hacer un colombiano :) Hay algun prospecto de volver a Colombia?

Congratulations!!! Excellent work you've achieved. The little mouse! jaja

Felicidades, en serio,

Xian...SuEtEr

[AndresArango]

Jose, Felicitaciones, you are the best man.

....de Video base a rainmaker... Y Judy... me dijo para donde vas despues :) ! AMAZING! :)

Can't wait to see your future projects... and of course, I predict now.. Academy Awards in a few years. :thumbsup:



Thanks for your work! Great inspiration :)


Saludos!



Carlos Andres

[M-TUNE]

amazing works..!!:eek:


felicitaciones compañero muy bueno el reel.

[HappyCalaveras]

Congratulations, that's a very nice variety of high-quality work - your showreel goes in my "inspiration" folder!

Out of curiousity, about how much time would you say you spend experimenting/R&D before for effects versus how long it takes once you have the look you are trying to acheive? I know it would vary from project to project, but it's something I'm always curious to hear.

[flyingjay]

Very cool ,buddy! It must take lots of time to finish these .

[pearl3d]

amazing reel, you're very talented

[mboden]

Thank You so much for posting this reel. It just reminded me why I up this late tonight and why I'm in school doing what I'm doing.

[jdburgos]

Congratulations, that's a very nice variety of high-quality work - your showreel goes in my "inspiration" folder!

Out of curiousity, about how much time would you say you spend experimenting/R&D before for effects versus how long it takes once you have the look you are trying to acheive? I know it would vary from project to project, but it's something I'm always curious to hear.


Good question, as you said, it depends on how technical the project is and how much time you have.
For the water for example, was hard to find the line between RND and real project.
I normally start doing RND on a shot and slowly start building geometry for final approach.

If is a new project where you don’t know how to do, I would say 75% RND and 25% finishing the project.

If you already know how to do it , I would say you should expend some RND time to upgrade the techniques maybe 25%.


Thanks for all the feed back, is good to know what the people think about the Demo Reel


Jose Burgos
Lead Technical Director
Rainmaker
Vancouver Canada

[ringzero]

So you did everything on the reel with no one else helping?

Well done - impressive!

[masterx3k]

Simply amazing. I envy you for working on Atlantis. I love that show.

[paultheplumber]

Fantastic reel. Kudos on a job well done.

[Maximusb]

Really is good stuff..... I have to know what the sound track is too.... please let us know.
The quality of your finnished images are perfect, great presentation.

[jdburgos]

Really is good stuff..... I have to know what the sound track is too.... please let us know.
The quality of your finnished images are perfect, great presentation.

thanks

Music: is from Bajo fondo Tango Club, and the song name is Montserrat

[LukaStellwag]

Great real, great music ... Wow.

[raven0us]

A very nice reel..Very professional..can you give us some insights into how you did the water fx with spray....proprietory software or standard tools??? ....Forgive my ignorance , is the water fx is from a movie.... or commercial?

[bazuka]

great work 10 stars, and i have the same question about software, as far as i know some shoots from 'Code' were done in Lightwave but i dont know how many studios were shoothing the vfx for 'Code' so i would like to know what 3d soft. you used?

10x and keep the good work...

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