Nested within a large, loving family, Dan grew up in one of the most depopulated region of Spain (< 4 person/km2). Since was 8, every night he waited anxiously to watch a "Behind the scenes" TV show. He was mesmerized with all the processes needed for making a movie! It wasn't any film school in hundreds of Km away and he couldn't afford to move so far, so working on film industry was only an unrealistic dream back then! (that's why he start studying science, other passion of him)
But the call was louder so he leave science path on the side after finishing Biochemistry high school and he went to Zaragoza to study film, getting the top of class rates during higher education in Film, TV and Media. He got hired even before finishing his internships as head of a space dedicated to teaching filmmaking to young people. Dan loved being teacher and he learned lots from the experience, but he needed to grow profesionally, that's why he decided to move to Barcelona!
In Barcelona he deepened in different areas and industry crafts (lighting, camera op., color grade, visual narrative, editing, postproduction, photo, among others). Finally his heart chose the VFX path as it offered the perfect balance between artistic, technical, creative and logical-mathematical aspects. Also most of this knowledge was super useful towards VFX! When focusing on his VFX training, most of his expertness comes from online resources, short courses & master classes, with tutors like: (see here)
Once choosen the career of VFX, he decided to move to London with plans of saving enough money to afford advanced VFX studies, despite he barely spoke any english and no money to survive un such a city... Still he went for it, looking for his own VFX projects whilst working full time in a fast food company to pay the rent, and deepening on the VFX through internet resources ... before of being able to afford a vfx degree, He found himself working more and more regularly as a VFX artist, with recurrent happy clients, so he decided to quit his job and entering the joys (and pains) of a freelancer lifestyle!
Orange is a very special color to me:
Not only because the obvious relationships with buddhism,
Not only because twice every 24h the sky becomes completely orange during the minutes with most beautiful light of the day (with all the psychological and anthropological connotations that entails)
It's a color in between warm and cold colors (depending if it contain a bit more of red or yellow), between bold and calm looking. Red is always aggressive, blue is always cold and green always evoque nature... orange could become anything that he proposed!
The exact same orange will feels completely different If you combine it together with a navy background than if it's displayed together with yellow, but with the ability of not loosing radiant and optimistic traits! Because of this relation with other colours, we could say that orange is a very "friendly and ductile" color, able to adapt himself according to the situation.
The choice of mixing it with large amounts of white and light grey it represents to me the pleasure of working in a team, knowing your place and collaborating with others in favour of something greater than oneself, with no intention of been the main character of the show, but without passing through totally unnoticed.
The human being has always been attracted to overlapping images:
Negative handprint in prehistoric rock art... ancient art of shadow puppetry... photomontages like "the two ways of life" by Oscar Rejlander... films by Alice Guy, George Méliès or Segundo de Chomón...
But also you was attracted to it once painting fake moustaches on your schoolbooks pictures! or once using the instagram face filters... Everyone loves to overlap images!
Everyone
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Overlapping
Regardless doing it using a painted glass in front of camera, manipulating the fotoquimic frames, or using software with interfaces based in layers or nodes, to overlap images allow us to create fascinating universes, amazing realities that you can't find in any real place!
