Behind the great success of ‘Love, Death + Robots’ there is a lot of creativity and great artistic work, but also a very important part of management, production and business, which is what Able & Baker and Blow will share firsthand. In this talk, they will reveal what it is like to work for the USA and what challenges a study faces working at a distance on a project as complex as this. Blow Studio has made the animation production of the episodes “Three Robots” and “When the Yogurt Took Over” of Netflix’s anthology of animation “Love, Death + Robots”. On the other hand, Able & Baker has made the animation production of the episode “The Dump”.

Co-founder. BLOW STUDIO

ALEJANDRO JIMÉNEZ

Alejandro Jiménez is co-founder of Blow, the animation studio that recently has made the animation production of the episodes ‘Three robots’ and ‘When the Yogurt Took Over’ of Netflix’s animation anthology ‘Love, Death + Robots’. Over the last 8 years he has made the production and animation direction for international advertising campaigns. Meanwhile, as a director he has written and co-directed the short films ‘Project Shell’ (2012), “5” (2015) and ‘Alleycats’ (2017).

Co-founder & C.G. supervisor. ABLE&BAKER

CARLOS TSCHUSCHKE

Self-taught who is interested in 3D from a very young age and at age 18, in 1998, he began his professional career in the infoarchitecture sector. In 2004 he gets into Kandor Graphics, where he begins to work on what he really loved, 3D animation. After a time collaborating with different companies as a freelancer, in 2009 he began working at Vodka Capital, a place that aroused his curiosity for the creation and development of content. After having worked in practically all the departments involved in an animated production, he decided to found Able&Baker, where he could integrate his experience from executive production.

Silly Walks is a 2D animation and visual development studio located in Valencia, Spain. They have been working together since 2013, producing nice art for TV, films, video games and advertising for clients from all over the world, such as Nickelodeon, 11 Bit Studios or Lorenzo Jovanotti. As a creative production team, they love the kind of projects where they can explore and design cool stories while they deploy and squeeze their production skills. They also find very enriching working and collaborating with other great artists and professionals.

Founder & Layout/Composition Director. SILLY WALKS STUDIO

ALBERTO GIL

Silly Walks is a 2D animation and visual development studio located in Valencia, Spain. They have been working together since 2013, producing nice art for TV, films, video games and advertising for clients from all over the world, such as Nickelodeon, 11 Bit Studios or Lorenzo Jovanotti. As a creative production team, they love the kind of projects where they can explore and design cool stories while they deploy and squeeze their production skills. They also find very enriching working and collaborating with other great artists and professionals.

Founder & Character/Storyboard Artist. SILLY WALKS STUDIO

JAVIER SÁNCHEZ

Silly Walks is a 2D animation and visual development studio located in Valencia, Spain. They have been working together since 2013, producing nice art for TV, films, video games and advertising for clients from all over the world, such as Nickelodeon, 11 Bit Studios or Lorenzo Jovanotti. As a creative production team, they love the kind of projects where they can explore and design cool stories while they deploy and squeeze their production skills. They also find very enriching working and collaborating with other great artists and professionals.

Founder & Animation Director. SILLY WALKS STUDIO

JOSEP BAÑOS

Silly Walks is a 2D animation and visual development studio located in Valencia, Spain. They have been working together since 2013, producing nice art for TV, films, video games and advertising for clients from all over the world, such as Nickelodeon, 11 Bit Studios or Lorenzo Jovanotti. As a creative production team, they love the kind of projects where they can explore and design cool stories while they deploy and squeeze their production skills. They also find very enriching working and collaborating with other great artists and professionals.

Founder & Artistic Director. SILLY WALKS STUDIO

MARTÍN MARTÍNEZ

Silly Walks is a 2D animation and visual development studio located in Valencia, Spain. They have been working together since 2013, producing nice art for TV, films, video games and advertising for clients from all over the world, such as Nickelodeon, 11 Bit Studios or Lorenzo Jovanotti. As a creative production team, they love the kind of projects where they can explore and design cool stories while they deploy and squeeze their production skills. They also find very enriching working and collaborating with other great artists and professionals.

In this presentation, we will analyze the business opportunities that exist for European producers in Latin America and present the results of the Spanish presence in Pixelatl thanks to the collaboration of ICAA and other institutions

General Director. ICAA

BEATRIZ NAVAS

She is the General Director of the Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts Institute ICAA of Spain. She started collaborating with the La Casa Encendida de Fundación Montemadrid in 2003 and ran the audiovisual department from 2008 to 2014, and the music and art performances from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 she became the executrive producer at Sayaka Producciones developing projects for movies and televison. She is the co-founder of the online platform for independent cinema plat.tv, specialized in Spanish and Latin experimental films. In 2018 she published her book ‘Y ahora, lo importante’ (Caballo de Troya).

Director. PIXELATL

JOSÉ IÑESTA

Human being in construction… Tireless searcher of spaces and moments that allows human beings to connect. Director of Pixelalt, an Association dedicated to the construction of platforms for the creation and promotion of narratives and multimedia contend inside and outside Mexico. Passionate about art and technology.

Creator & Director. 3D WIRE / Developer. PREMIOS QUIRINO

JOSÉ LUIS FARIAS

Consultant and adviser for several entities and international events like Proimágenes Colombia, CARTOON, Annecy Festival, Cine Court Animé Roanne and Pixelatl. Meanwhile, he also develops his career as a producer through his production company Paramotion Films, dedicated to animation films, digital post-production and audio-visual training since 2002

Coordinator. VENTANA SUR ANIMATION!

SILVINA CORNILLÓN

She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently the coordinator of Animation! at Ventana Sur Latin American Film Market, organized jointly by INCAA and the Marché du Film / Cannes Film Festival. Silvina has worked as a producer specializing in animation for more than 15 years. She has developed and produced independent short films with directors such as Juan Pablo Zaramella and Santiago Bou. These films have received international awards and participated in the official competition of prestigious festivals such as Sundance Film Festival (USA), Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France) and Hiroshima Festival (Japan).

Marketing Policy Director. ICAA

TITO RODRÍGUEZ

Tito Rodríguez has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Pontifical University of Salamanca. In 2009 he joined the Press Department of the International Film Festival of Gijón / Xixón (FICX), of which he was part until 2011. Since then, he has worked in the organization of more than 25 editions of film festivals and events in Spain and The Netherlands, among them, serving as Communication Manager and Publications Coordinator at the Holland Film Meeting (Netherlands Film Festival Industry Forum), where he was also a member of the project evaluation committee under development for the HFM Co- Production Platform; Press agent and Guest Management at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR); Head of Communication, Press and Marketing at World Cinema Amsterdam (organized by Rialto) and at (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico (A Coruña, Spain); and Interdepartmental Coordination at the Seville European Film Festival (SEFF) between 2012 and 2016. In 2017 he returns to the Gijón / Xixón International Film Festival as a member of the new Management Committee, to work as a Programmer, Head of Institutional Relations and Industry In this second stage in the FICX, he founded the program of activities for professionals (FICX Industry Days). He is currently Director of Marketing Policies of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts of Spain (ICAA).

‘Silly Sundays’, a preschool TV series created by Nuria González Blanco and currently in development at Cartoon Saloon, follows an Irish-Mediterranean family in a world where school and work are out for the week and a day of family fun lies ahead.

Producer. CARTOON SALOON

NURIA GONZÁLEZ BLANCO

Academy Awards nominee producer and a BAFTA New Talent nominee director and writer working in Ireland-based animation studio Cartoon Saloon. Nuria studied Animation at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland and for the last eight years she has worked across the full spectrum of animation production roles in children’s television, advertising and film. Past projects include the award-winning short film ‘Violet’, the International Emmy® Kids Award Nominee ‘Puffin Rock’, the Golden Globe® and Oscar® nominated feature ‘The Breadwinner’ and the IFTA Winner and Oscar® nominated short ‘Late Afternoon’.

Humble Bundle is a distribution platform for video games, ebooks, software and other types of digital content. Since Humble was founded in 2010, its mission has been to offer exceptional digital content at great prices, and thereby facilitate support for non-profit organizations. With the help of its clients, Humble has raised more than $ 145 million for NGOs worldwide.

VP, Business Development. HUMBLE BUNDLE

EDUARDO APARICIO

Vice President of Business Development of Humble Bundle, where he has been working for 6 years. During that time he has been key in the launch of the Humble Store, the Humble Monthly subscription and, for 2 years, has led the Humble indie video game publishing team.

Danish animation studio with offices is Viborg and Copenhagen. Tumblehead was founded in 2011 and since then they have worked to explore and refine their own approach to style, design, animation and overall production and to push the boundaries of 3D animation. Their last projects have received several awards like Emile Award to Best Commissioned Film with ‘Rob ‘n’ Ron’. Nowadays they have just finished the short film ‘Tales from the Multiverse’.

Founder & Art Director. TUMBLEHEAD ANIMATION STUDIO

MAGNUS MØLLER

Founder and art director of the Danish animation studio Tumblehead with offices is Viborg and Copenhagen. Tumblehead was founded in 2011 and since then they have worked to explore and refine their own approach to style, design, animation and overall production and to push the boundaries of 3D animation. Their last projects have received several awards like Emile Award to Best Commissioned Film with ‘Rob ‘n’ Ron’. Nowadays they have just finished the short film ‘Tales from the Multiverse’.

Founder & Animation Supervisor. TUMBLEHEAD ANIMATION STUDIO

METTE TANGE

Founder and animation supervisor of the Danish animation studio Tumblehead with offices is Viborg and Copenhagen. Tumblehead was founded in 2011 and since then they have worked to explore and refine their own approach to style, design, animation and overall production and to push the boundaries of 3D animation. Their last projects have received several awards like Emile Award to Best Commissioned Film with ‘Rob ‘n’ Ron’. Nowadays they have just finished the short film ‘Tales from the Multiverse’.

Founder. TUMBLEHEAD ANIMATION STUDIO

PETER SMITH

Founder of the Danish animation studio Tumblehead with offices is Viborg and Copenhagen. Tumblehead was founded in 2011 and since then they have worked to explore and refine their own approach to style, design, animation and overall production and to push the boundaries of 3D animation. Their last projects have received several awards like Emile Award to Best Commissioned Film with ‘Rob ‘n’ Ron’. Nowadays they have just finished the short film ‘Tales from the Multiverse’.

We live in an exciting time where technology is increasingly at the service of creation and artists. The integration of technologies is and will be a trigger for the coming years, what will the animation and video games studio of the future be like? Here you will find a clue with Project MPX: Mouse, Pen and XR in the same workflow in Blender.

MPX project is a quick implementation to try to integrate the VR/XR inputs in an unified workflow with mouse and pen in Blender.

Director. PEPE-SCHOOL-LAND

DANIEL M. LARA

Goya Award for the best animated short film for ‘Alike’ in 2016, performs his professional activity in three areas: teaching with his school Pepe School Land, on the other hand he combines the creation of his own short films and finally designing and developing animation tools. He has worked in films, advertising and series with several companies such as Ilion Animation Studios, Pyro Studios, REM Infográfico or Furia Digital among others and usually participates as a speaker at conferences and festivals.

Board games have become a very attractive and lucrative market where professionals from many sectors end up collaborating to create great projects. One of the fundamental aspects is art direction and graphic image, being in many cases true masterpieces full of creativity and technique. In this talk we will see the ins and outs of this industry through the trajectory of two great professionals with international recognition, delving into how they develop their work but also in key aspects to start in this sector.

Concept artist & Cofounder. MONSTERS PIT

IGOR HERAS

Founder of Monsters Pit, an illustration and concept art studio that offers service to different areas of the audiovisual entertainment industry. With more than 15 years of experience he has worked in important titles in the video game industry such as ‘Castlevania Lord of Shadows 2’, ‘Castlevania Lord of Shadows: Mirror of Fate’, ‘Runaway: A Twits of Fade or The Next Big Thing’. In the world of board games, he has collaborated on titles such as Corvus Belli ‘Infinity’ or ‘Smash Up’. In addition, as a studio, they have been primarily responsible for the art of ‘Heroquest 25th’ and are currently working on the expected card game ‘Flesh and Blood’.

Illustrator. GAMES WORKSHOP

PEDRO NUÑEZ

He has 14 years of experience in advertising, animation, video games and illustration as a digital and traditional artist. He has collaborated with clients such as Cartoon Network, The SPA Studios, Mercury Steam, CMON, Tindalos interactive and Games Workshop, among others. As a lead artist in video games he has worked on titles such as Castlevania Lords of Shadow 1 and 2, Castlevania Mirror of Fate for KONAMI / Mercury Steam, BloodBath of Freedom Factory, Legend of the Cryptids of Applibot and Battlefleet Gothic Armada warhammer 40k for Tindalos interactive.

* In collaboration with Monster Pit.

Don’t forget to buy your lunch and dinner with your accreditation before September 20th! Remember that meals cannot be purchased during the event.

Many Animation professionals want to make a personal comic to enjoy the creative freedom it offers, as many comic professionals dream of working conditions and the support of the animation sector, but very few have had the opportunity to jump from one side to the other, much less work on both at the same time. This is the case of our guests.

Our guests have found a way to reconcile a professional career in one of the Animation cinema stalls and successfully publish a comic book.

Is it possible to alternate both work profiles? What skills are transferable from one area to another and which have to be totally different? From the professional point of view, what are the advantages and disadvantages? Are Animation and Comic really connected or are they just two different work areas in which there are cartoons?

Character Design Supervisor. PASSION PICTURES

ANDREA TORREJÓN (ANDRE!)

Character designer for animation and video games, comic book artist and professional idiot, works as a character design supervisor for ‘101 Dalmatian Street’ (Passion Pictures / Disney) in London, and when not, she may find herself drawing nonsense, reading about history, or trying to learn something useful for when there is a zombie attack. As archery or macramé. In her more than 10 years in the entertainment industry, she has worked (and published) with Spaceman project (Nothin ‘Personal), Rovio (Angry birds), El Jueves, Boom Studios, Nikodemo and a lot of companies whose name is not she doesn’t remember and neither you do. She likes to talk about herself in the third person, the animals, and to teach character design at Escape Studios (London) where she is paid to talk incessantly to a group of hard-working students for three hours a week.

Senior Animator & Previs artist. THE THIRD FLOOR

JAIME VISEDO

He has been working for 15 years as an animator, previs artist and cartoon storyboard artist for both animation (‘The Secret Life of Pets’, ‘Asterix’, ‘Love, Death & Robots’, ‘Wonder Park’ …) and VFX. He currently works as lead previs artist in The Third Floor London, participating in the preproduction of well-known Marvel, Lucasfilm, Disney or Warner Brothers projects among others. Although mainly dedicated to his work in the audiovisual sector, he has always remained involved in the comic world with sporadic collaborations. Recently he published ‘Life father 1: Diary of a rookie father’, his first solo work but not the last since, as he says, his ‘little writers’ have stories for a while.

Illustrator. FREELANCE

KENNY RUIZ

He studied at the Escola Joso, worked as an illustrator for Disney in the Salvador Simó Artwork studio, performed the trilogy “The Lightning Hunter” and “The Mystery of Captain Nemo”, the one shots “Barcelona”, “Malefic. Soum”, and the series “Two Swords”, with a script by Víctor Santos has drawn Outrage, a manga set in the Infinity universe and the Miniatures game of Corvus Belli. In 2018, he participated in the Japanese publication Tezucomi, with a story inspired by the Boku No Songoku manga by maestro Osamu Tezuka. Make all this compatible with storyboard’s work for studios such as “The Impossible Journey”, 737 Shakers, BRB, AnimaKitchen and Ilion Studio. He was a professor at the ESDIP Professional Drawing School in Madrid. He currently works with the script of Kid Toussaint and the color of Noiry in two series for Dupuis: Magic 7 and Telemaco.

Video game engines have arrived to stay in the world of animation. Beyond the technological part, a new way of working from the point of view of production opens up. What challenges do we face? What is the positive and negative about this change? How does it affect our workflow and pipeline? Thanks to two real cases we will solve these and other issues from the most practical point of view.

B Water Animation Studios in its latest production the series ‘Treasure Trekkers’ has developed with Unity a unique hybrid pipeline in the world. On the other hand, ‘Hero Dad’ by Wise Blue Studios is one of the world’s first animated series produced in real time with Unity.

General Manager. B WATER ANIMATION STUDIOS

ANGÉLICA GARCÍA BELTRÁN

She is an enterprising and dynamic woman, who has reinvented herself several times throughout her professional career. She studied Higher Architecture and worked in CAD / CAM systems applied to design. Then she discovered to have the makings of entrepreneurship and she dedicated herself to construction, real estate development and hospitality. She took a new turn and investigated in the area of ​​personal development and personal relationships. Finally, she returned to her origins of design and image and found a new way to express herself through the audiovisual world, where she has developed different works in different areas. Currently, adding to her new facet her business knowledge, she is General Manager of B Water Animation Studios, a group that has positioned itself in Europe as an innovator thanks to its latest production “Treasure Trekkers”, where they have developed a unique hybrid pipeline in the world. Its philosophy is the search for better quality and greater productivity through technical innovation and process optimization.

Producer. WISE BLUE STUDIOS

NATHALIE MARTÍNEZ

Executive MBA from the European University and Senior Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Working in the audiovisual, film and television sector, since 1999, in 2003 she produced her first feature film. After producing the independent feature films ‘Gabriel’s Voicel’, ‘Four Seasons’ and ‘The Butterflies Man’, critical successes and awards, Nathalie redirected her career towards animation production more permanently. Producer of the animated feature film ‘Animal Crackers’ (2017), she founded in 2017 her own studio Wise Blue Studios, based in Valencia, Tenerife and Los Angeles (USA). Since the beginning of 2019, Nathalie has been immersed in the development of her next animated feature film ‘MiBots’. In addition to this project, the company’s flagship, Nathalie is currently producing the television series ‘La Fossa’ (TVC, À Punt Media, Bausan Films, Wise Blue Studios), directed by Agustí Vila, the animated short film ‘The Watchmaker’ by Maxi Valero and the first two seasons of the children’s series ‘Hero Dad’ for À Punt Media, who also directs with Maxi Valero, while preparing its international launch.

Get out of the cave to look for new audiences! There are hooks that can attract other audiences to your project that you might not have thought of, through music, humor or kawaii aesthetics. This is the case of The Rivers of Alice from Delirium Studios, with which they got many fans of Vetusta Morla’s music to put themselves in front of a command for the first time or the irresistible aesthetic and kawaii subculture that he uses in all his Platonic Games games until the posthumor of Héctor Bometón and how he has taken it to the video game in the daring bet of Superego, a documentary graphic adventure.

Founder & Creative Director. DELIRIUM STUDIOS

ARTURO MONEDERO

He has a professional career as a video game designer with more than 15 years, Professor of Video games Design and Projects at CreaNavarra, Vice President of Development of AEVI (Spanish Association of Video Games) and freelance designer. With his development company Delirium Studios has achieved more than 18 national and international awards and recognitions, among which 5 Academy Awards, 2 Titaniums F&S, a 3D Wire Award for the best national production or being the first national studio to be selected by the prestigious independent Indiecade festival. The most outstanding works of the company are ‘Alice’s Rivers’, the graphic adventure co-produced with Vetusta Morla or the game for the Nintendo 3DS ‘The Delusions of Von Sottendorff and his Squared Mind’.

FREELANCE

HÉCTOR BOMETÓN

He studied Audiovisual Communication in the extinct City of Light of Alicante attracted by cinema, but he has never gotten to shoot. He has published two books of graphic humor with the publisher Libros de Autoengaño and he has done pixel art for television, cinema, video clips and advertising. For a few years he has been combining his work as a graphic designer with the development of his first video game, ‘Superego’, which he has been able to devote full time since June of this year 2019, when he has managed to finance the project through Kickstarter.

Founder & CEO. PLATONIC GAMES

VALERIA CASTRO

Founder and CEO of Platonic Games, a Madrid video game studio founded in 2015 by Valeria Castro and Álvaro Gutiérrez. They specialize in kawaii games and pretend to fill the world with happy, accessible and adorable games! She is the current president of the Spanish video game association DEV.

The ability to run processes remotely and stream them is a revolution that changes everything. Google Stadia is a clear example, and Google’s experience with Machine Learning is critical to further dilute the concepts of audience and user, of static and limited experience. In this talk we will discover with Raúl Rubio Munárriz what Stadia brings from the point of view of design, engineering and software creation, and how everything changes.

Creative Director. TEQUILA WORKS

RAÚL RUBIO

Creative director and CEO of Tequila Works. He was a co-founder of MercurySteam Entertainment (Castlevania: Lords of Shadow) before founding Tequila Works (Deadlight, RiME, The Sexy Brutale, The Invisible Hours, WonderWorlds….). and becoming a world-recognized creative director. Tequila Works will be releasing two games this year : Groundhog Day Like Father like Son for PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and GYLT for Stadia later this year.

Sometimes we get obfuscated with our animation or video game project and we reach a point where we ended up abandoning it because it does not get ahead. What if instead of leaving it we think a little further? What if we have not chosen the proper format of our project? After all, this is about creating experiences, isn’t it? What if our project we had thought for animation really is a great video game or vice versa? This is what is happening with #Blud, which was born as an animated short film and along the way it became a video game. At Exit 73 Studios, everyone loved the characters and style of the original #Blud pitch, but the turning point came when they got together with two programmers to turn everything around and reinvent their project. Now as a video game it has generated a lot of expectations, even having reviews in prestigious journals such as EDGE and will soon be a reality thanks to thinking differently and synergies with other sectors.

Co-Owner & Animation Director. EXIT 73 STUDIOS

CHRIS BURNS

Chris Burns is the Co-Owner and Animation Director of Exit 73 Studios, a small boutique studio, specializing in short form animation, with a focus on traditional animation. Chris has been in the animation industry for 16 years. In addition to having worked on animated content for Cartoon Network, Adult Swim,and MTV, Exit 73 has produced several original pilots with Nickelodeon and Disney, redesigned and animated several General Mills cereal commercials,and animated in-game cut scenes for ‘OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes’. Exit 73 studios, has recently decided to dedicate their time to making a fully traditionally animated video game called ‘#BLUD: A cartoony vampire hunting adventure!’

The 1st WEIRD GAMES is here! Do not miss the opportunity to participate in these Olympics outdoor freaks where you can promote networking while having fun. Stop by the WEIRD GAMES Office in the courtyard of the Quintanar Palace to sign up for competitions! there are very limited places! but if you run out of championship, don’t worry we have several “sports on display” in which you can participate. And yes, we will have an open bar to liven up ? sponsored by Welaw.

Attentive to the networks, we will soon announce the juicy awards

ACCESS FOR PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION ONLY

Registration and WEIRD GAMES information:

– Patio of the Palacio de Quintanar, WEIRD GAMES Office

– Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th and Saturday 5th (only in the morning)

Olympic and exhibition competitions:

Garden of the Zuloaga

Saturday 5 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Olympic sports (with prior registration, final and juicy prizes)

Croquet (Sponsored by HP)

Garden chito

Table football

Street fighter video games

Duck fishing

Exhibition sports (without prior registration)

Pinball

Slot (Miniature electric car racing on track)

Board games

And others…