Una llama en medio del camino...

Una llama en medio del camino... a Jr.canest blog... that's me, I drink orange juice out of a wine glass. And what about me? I'm a Bolivian Motion Designer (you know, animation, design, that kind of stuff) a lover of music, someone that wouldn't be here...

[behindkeyframes]

Jorge R. Canedo Estrada http://www.jrcanest.co http://www.giantant.ca

[jrcanest]

Making these type of videos is becoming a family tradition, and we love this tradition :)

I went to Hyper Island with Claudio to give a workshop on animation, so I brought the whole family along and we made a video!

Sweeeeeedan.

[fiveredballoons-blog]

We walked through the beach with the waves at our side and ice cream cones in our hands. Mango yellow dripped down my cone as my boots scuffed the sand, and two yellow leaves lay beside my feet. If I had instagram, I would have taken a photo combining the yellows of ice cream and autumn leaves.

[jrcanest]

Today they announced the winners of Art Director's Club Young Guns 12 and I feel like I shouldn't be among so many more talented people, but it's a blessing to be one. 

[jrcanest]

We have a son & he’s awesome & he likes to hiccup and smile at random objects. So we travelled to Portland and down to the Oregon Coast. Long weekends and ice cream are nice. Pretty homes are nice. Sunsets are nice.

[jrcanest]

It was a random day in which me and Mike grabbed lunch together and talked about the idea of working together... a few months later, here we are!

The story of this video is kinda weird, After Mike told me there was the opportunity for this Telus grant, we got to work on a quick pitch (made in one night) with me, mike and the help of my wife emmy lou... and a few weeks later, they told us we got i!

I was going to animate the whole thing at first, but then, the more I talked to Mike about it, it felt we were going to need some expert help... that's where Henrique came in, working with him at giant ant made him the perfect fit for this, with his amazing character animation skills.

Shortly after that, my life started going crazier, and I only had a few weeks with my wife before our baby was going to be born, so after arranging some of my priorities, I decided it was best to step out a bit, and find more help and take the role of producer/director and overseer.

And so, after convincing Mike everything was going to be OK. I brought in a couple other friends, Cesar for the design and Arm for the compositing (both amazing and talented dudes)... and then, just to complete the team, Henrique suggested Breno to help out.

And off we went, with a bunch of weird ideas, storyboards and trying to teach/learn baseball while doing it, we made this little video... enjoy :)

mikeedel.com jrcanest.co henriquebarone.com behance.net/eldiablo  armmotion.com instagram.com/brnemo

PS. see if you see my little me in there :)

[jrcanest]

We love our son, Matthias, our gift of God.

[jrcanest]

I had the privilege to collaborate with Desiring God once again. And since our awesome son was born two weeks before anticipated I had to ask for help and the always smooth Phil Borst with the help from Joseph Dunlap jumped to the rescue. Look at the Book is a new online method of teaching the Bible. It’s an ongoing series of 5–10 minute videos in which the camera is on the text, not the teacher. You will hear John Piper’s voice and watch his pen underline, circle, make connections, and scribble notes — all to help you learn to read God’s word for yourself. His goal is to help you not only see what he sees, but where he sees it and how he found it. http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/no-book-like-the-bible

[fiveredballoons-blog]

My husband and I just had a baby boy.  His name is Matthias (the Shmeeus - or Shmee for short) & yes he’s kinda ridiculously adorable.

See more photos on my blog here.

[jrcanest]

Visit Original Link

The always awesome "La Blogotheque" made a film about Johnny Cash's "Out Among The Stars" With Brandon Flowers, Father John Misty & Local Natives. 

And the Local Natives version of Out Among The Stars is absolutely amazing. I had to post it independently.

[jrcanest]

Visit Original Link

Beautiful Eulogy by Beautiful Eulogy

"How sweet the Gospel sounds to ears like mine. Well acquainted

with pain and strained relationships. Friendships that suffer from long distances, or even worse they get severed from something more severe. And He still hasn't wiped away all my tears yet. My cheeks get wet every now and then. Even when I give my best, I know I fall short. I get scared when the balls in my court. Focussed on, my performance, wretched and poor. It makes the message more real when I preach it. I'm not there yet so I'm reaching, reaching for a goal, to stand before my King and be speechless. Then, never again, will I question if his grace is sufficient to cover my sin. Cause death is gone, and all the effects of, evil and wrong will be conquered when His kingdom comes. So this is my hope and my prayer. The air that I'll breath in eternity with lungs that never fail me. If it pleases my Lord, and only by Your grace, use my life till it's poured out for Your sake. Until then I'll remain where You have me, with joy when I feel unhappy. And a peace that surpasses all my understanding, my life is in the hands of Your love everlasting."

Beautiful words. Beautiful Grace.

[jrcanest]

Apparently this tire is orange, and I got to direct my first live action ad!

Yokohama approached us ants to make a cool little piece for their tire that has orange oil in it, the opportunities seemed endless and we wanted to do all sort of crazy stuff, so we did.

Orange Craziness!

It was amazing to have basically the whole team making amazing stuff and having (too much) fun. So check them out:

The amazing multi-talented, rally car racer Robin!

Matt the orange suite man.

The guy who did mova: Nicholas

Shawn not-shaun-white, shawn hight! He knows about art.

Henrique the cel master,

And all the most amazing ants ever that I wont have time to list them all with cool adjectives!

Client: Yokohama Canada Directed by Giant Ant Creative Direction: Leah Nelson & Jay Grandin  Script: Leah Nelson & Jay Grandin  Producer: Teresa Toews Production Coordinator: Cory Philpott  Art Direction: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada On-set Direction: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada Set Production: Robin Leveille, Matt James, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada Camera Operator + Lighting: Robin Leveille Design: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Matt James, Shawn Hight Animation and Compositing: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada, Matt James 3D Animation: Nicholas Ferreira, Henrique Barone, Shawn Hight Cel Animation: Henrique Barone Music: Ryland Haggis

let's do it again.

[fiveredballoons-blog]

I like the rain through the sunshine & the way people stop to talk to other people when they see a rainbow spilling into the ocean, or two eagles sitting on a pole. I like the bravery of small purple crocuses; their haste to open to the world, and their graceful necks that stretch to the sun. I...

[jrcanest]

I am so blessed with a beautiful wife that writes beautiful things.

[jrcanest]

I've been working on this verse for this project that involves a ton of amazing designers, I chose the beautiful Psalm 37:3-4.

Trust in the Lord, and do good;

dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Delight yourself in the Lord,

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

some sketches: 

[jrcanest]

One beautiful 2013 in the eyes of my awesome and beautiful wife.

"And this was 2013" by Emmy Lou Virginia

[jrcanest]

New year, new video!

Jeroen from animography.net approached me with a pretty cool idea again, the last being Franchise animated (vimeo.com/70470864).

This time it was an empty canvas, with the only requirement to use one of the typefaces on the site. I was honored to be the first one to do Animography Monthly! But It was a crazy December for me and I was running out of time, so I had to give myself a few restraints: · Had to be done 1 day. · Had to fit the style of the Isotype font. (designed by Ryan Locke) · Had to somehow tell the story of being a dad or becoming one. (since our son/daughter will be coming to this world in a few months :D)

So "Being A Dad" was born, an animated experiment on the weird but awesome blessing of being a dad.

Design & Animation: Jr.canest Animated Typeface: Isotype by Ryan Locke Music: The Books

Huge thanks to my wife Emmy Lou (emmylouvirginia.com/) for helping me come up with ideas for this and to Tatalab for making beautiful numbers (tatalab.com/Yorokobu-numbers)

& most importantly thanks to God, for the wonderful gift and miracle of life.

For Animography Monthly: January. (And I can't wait to see what the rest of the group comes up with for the next months!)

[jrcanest]

It was around June last year (2013) when I got an amazing surprise on my email... I've always wanted to work with desiringGod, in my opinion, one of the awesomest Christian ministries out there today and I remember sending them a vimeo message years ago telling them that I would love to collaborate. So when Stefan Green from desiringGod contacted me, I was so incredibly happy.

It took some time for the video to start coming together, They provided with the great script and my first worry was going to be that it was going to be around 4 minutes long and I also had this other awesome project going on for another amazing ministry: Ligonier.

So I know I needed help, and I reached out to a number of designers and animators and eventually I ended up meeting the amazing Ben Weeks (through Tom Froese who unfortunately wasn't able to help on this one)... So the design and concepting process started:

But we spent so much time on the thinking of the hard concepts and trying to make the visuals not steal from the message that we were running out of time, so I got more involved on the design and revised the storyboards a bit...

And got a few days worth of help from the also amazingly talented, James Graves.

And with two weeks left, we went full steam ahead, and on the animation side, we had the help from Joe Dunlap & Kasey Lum.

On the music, John Poon made a beautiful beautiful song that fit the video just perfectly. And eventually, defacto sound added some SFX.

And somehow... we finished on time. And for that and many things I need to thank my awesome and wonderful wife, without her help in those stressful days and her help to come up with with ideas, that would have been impossible.  

Turned out that the video was going to be launched with the new desiringGod site, but the launch got delayed a couple months but on January 1st. desiringGod.org looked like this for a few hours:

The team that made this possible was an amazing team, and I think we were all blessed at the end to be able to work on this together and our hope and pray is that this will be used by our LORD for His glory.

Thank you all again.

Art Direction & Animation: Jorge R. Canedo Estrada Concept & Design: Ben Weeks, James Graves, Jorge R. Canedo Estrada Additional Animation: Joe Dunlap, Kasey Lum Music: John Poon SFX: Defacto Sound Voice Over: John Piper Written and Produced By: Desiring God