Take everything away from me but never never take my sweet Reaktor Gaugear :-D I made a bunch of tracks using sounds from this marble of a soft synth during my year in Buenos Aires. Two of the tracks are featured in a short animated story by famous argentinian animator Elena Laplana. 


Listen to the tracks here.

I worked as a junior compositor on this project doing tracking, keying, 2d textures, rotoscoping and basic compositing with After Effects and Fusion for visual effects supervisor Christian Bergquist. The commercial was done with a mixture of 2d, greenscreen and 3d animation and was produced by Raw Film in Stockholm. I will post the whole commercial later.

I did some of the animations in the gallery for this Ikea Soft Toys Campaign during my internship at extremely successful production company B-Reel.

Go ahead and join the choir :D

Audi Car Commercial from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.

I did this project together with my mates Simon Victor and Gustaf Gustafsson during our studies in Eksjö, we used Maya, Eyeon Fusion, Shake and After Effects. Turned out nicely.

I did this all CG 3D Animation intro movie for Optea AB a couple of months ago, I only had 5 days for this HD project including animation, compositing, editing and rendertime so I used already built 3D models purchased from Turbosquid and built the 3D City with excellent free Cinema 4D plugin CityGen. I also used a track of mine called "Morning After". I had some problems with the well known GI flicker error in C4D R11 but due to tremendous time pressure I just blurred everything a bit in post. It turned out alright for a 5 day production.

Work in progress - Motion Graphics Intro Movie from Juan Fernando Maguid on Vimeo.

This is related to the post Autopsy of a Failure.

I think failures are interesting. Painful, yes. But it's only in failure that we really learn something about ourselves and in this particular case, the industry I work in.

Company X called me and asked me if I wanted to do a motion graphics piece for their client, an event company arranging an event were the best lawyer firms in Sweden were given prices for Best Agency etc etc. I thought to myself "Yeah this sounds like my cup of coffee, I'm good at these kind of things". One thing, the timeframe was really tight, I had only a week to make a several short movies, a 30 second long intro movie, nomination and winner movies. I had nothing to go on more than "something discreet with the tone of lawyer firms". All the art work had to be created from scratch. I sat the whole weekend and send them Photoshop sketches. All was fine. They liked it. Just some changes. I started animating stuff in After Effects, moving the camera around. Still all was fine. Suddenly the client of company X dropped the whole thing just days before the event. "It will not work, it's not what we want, we want something in a party mood". "We will go to someone else because you can't deliver". Whaaaaaaaaat?!!!

What the f**k happend? Party mood? What about the strict sober lawyer business look they were talking about in the first brief? I worked my ass off putting this thing together in just a couple of days and they drop the A-Bomb on me.

I will not bore you with further details just give you some tips on how to avoid these kind of work related failures:

1. Contract.
2. Contract.
3. Get a contract. That way even if they drop the whole thing like Hiroshima you will get paid.

I will post the unfinished unpolished 30 second intro movie soon. So you can see what they rejected.

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!