From time to time I do freelance work for Sveriges Television (SVT). Great place, great people. It's really cool to work with news graphics, you really feel that the work you do matters. Often you only have a couple of hours to do the graphics, animation and rendering so you have to be smart about the decisions, specially take it easy with a lot of filters in After Effects that can take forever to

Sayonara. I'm going to start posting some of the screens and animations that I do for SVTs news shows, Aktuellt and Rapport. These graphics were for a news story about the increasing problem with hooliganism within elite swedish soccer. I like to work with rusty colors, it's one of my favorite color palettes and it goes well with news graphics. All images are courtesy of SVT.

Greetings summertime! I have the fine luck to be part of the team behind the news graphics over @ swedens biggest TV channel, the great SVT, working with Rapport and Aktuellt. I'm there as an substitute over the summer and then some odd days here and there. Suits me perfect actually.It's very different from what I'm normally used to, the tempo is very high and you have (if your'e lucky) three hours

I put together this little presentation about myself instead of writing a boring letter recently when I applied for a job. It sounded really fun, the work was to design childrens applications and games for the iPad and iPhone, something I have been wanting to do for some time now. And no, I didn't get the job but hey you can't win them all. Jessss.What I Like (animated presentation) from Juan Fernando

Animation & Motion Graphics Showreel 2010 preview from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.Here's a little preview of my new showreel that I'm working on, it features work from EA & Dice game "Battlefield Bad Company 2" and other goodies. Chekkk it out.

I'm thrilled to be back working for Thelma/Louise on a very very exciting project that has something to do with cheese and very stupid games. By far the most rewarding job I have done as a freelancer ever and I'm glad that they gave me this chance to really shine!

LDTF-Style-Test from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.Work in Progress. This is a style and animation test for a music video I'm working on currently for american hip hop artist DCAP WON, the track is called "Lay These Fools Down". He approached me via my Myspace, I like these kind of projects were I get to freak out and experiment with interesting techniques, in this case heavy use of both the mograph

SH Pitch - Motion Graphics and Logotype Design from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.A pitch I did together with Johan Sondestedt from Cinematic for a swedish TV-show about the history of Sweden. They liked everything but the symbol in the logo. Later they went for a bigger production company.Normally I'm against pitching, I have to work for a living food doesn't automatically fall from the sky onto my

I have several new very exciting projects coming up over the horizon, of course I can't speak much of them for now, thats the nature of this business but I will post details asap.Learning more and more Cinema 4D and I really love it, I have tried several 3D packages but never came close to the fun I have with C4D. The new MoGraph Dynamics is amaaaaazing and very easy to use. Greyscale Gorilla has several

Work in progress - Motion Graphics Intro Movie from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.This is related to the post Autopsy of a Failure.

Can't say more than that it has to do with videogames and that it's really cool. I always wanted to work with these kinds of things so I'm very excited. More on this later stay tuned!

So I thought to myself one late evening some weeks ago: "Juan you need to update your PDF Portfolio and make it more interesting, ok?". How?? Maybe if I make it 4,2 meters wide? Why not? Funky wide like Jabba.Download it here boyaaaakaaalaaasshhh...

Motion Graphics, Compositing & Animation Showreel 2009 from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.