New blog entries

January 12th, 2010

Phew end of 2009 was fairly business, now it’s 2010.

My website got an overhaul, due to response from customers, and I plan on making some blog entries which will provide an insight in my insight, starting from today (since January is a bit dead, work-wise) so today I’m starting a bunch of small series of tutorials, 2D, 3D, animation and some compositing…. to display my way of working, thinking and to improve my portfolio ;)

In the brewing:

3D tutorial – A concept beer glass (Maya modeling and MentalRay renders)

2D Tutorial – an ISO-metric view of the street I live in (Vector)

Web tutorial – fast setup and usage of WordPress

Multimedia – webcontent, avoiding Flash.

Mundraub.org for a greener place between here

November 3rd, 2009

I’ve been so lucky to have meet the people behind mundraub.org and I’ve joined into their project.

My role in this project will be as developer with focus on geotagging, google maps and iPhone apps.

The site will launch its version 1.0 on 23rd November and we are currently working hard to make it a user friendly experience. In the beginning of 2010 the iPhone application will launch.

My work with Parzival

October 1st, 2009

In summer 2007 I met with the very carismatic lead singer of the band “Parzival” from Denmark, we agreed that I would help them making a music video and some multimedia material for their, then, upcoming album Zeitgeist.

At first we finished a music vide, which was not the piece I am most proud of, but compared to what they wanted it fulfilled that.

YouTube Preview Image

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The Line by Xavier Agudo – Premiere

September 28th, 2009

The short movie I’ve been helping out with (Visual effects), The Line by Xavier Agudo is premiering on 6th November 2009 in Prenzelauer Berg, Berlin

Read more about the event as details come up here: The Line’s official homepage

A Place Between Here – the name

September 10th, 2009

I decided to explain my decision of name, because I seem to have to explain what is says every time I speak to potential customers over the phone.

Some time ago I was sitting down brainstorming on some names for something that wouldn’t indicate exactly what I do (since I do not want to limit myself) plus it shouldn’t be specific to language or location (I was living at that time in Sweden).

A Place Between Here, was choosen for several reasons.

  • simple words (easy to spell, hard to spell wrong)
  • easy pronunciation (even though I tend to say it faster and faster every time)
  • abstract yet simple ( a place between here ?).

Well until now I’ve been using a logo consisting of APBH, but was thinking I needed something more.

So I’ve been looking into the meaning of the sentence, and it turns out it was a pretty good decision of name.

Oxford Dictionary on each word:

A

ORIGIN Middle English weak form of Old English ān [one.]

Place

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, from an alteration of Latinplatea open space,’ from Greek plateia (hodos) ‘broad (way).’

Between

ORIGIN Old English betwēonum, from be [by] + a Germanic wordrelated to two .

Here

ORIGIN Old English hērof Germanic origin; related to Dutch andGerman hier, also to he .

So in conclusion One Open Space/Broad Road 2 here

Even better than before considering my broad spectrum of services.

Now for design-thinking a logo for that :)

Terms & Conditions

September 4th, 2009

I’ve also finished a Terms and Conditions for future works.

It’s fairly standard any deviations from this have to be agreed on in advance.

Terms and Conditions v1.0

Maya – my experience

September 4th, 2009
Image by Meats Meier used for Maya 7 and copyright both of them

Image by Meats Meier used for Maya 7 and copyright both of them

Initially at my former employer we needed some PR images, which I did in the CAD system’s visualization application, but the need for moving images came quickly thereafter.

I started to look into solutions for realistic renders and animation. Several softwares were tested and I felt that they all did pretty much the same, I liked Maya’s GUI and therefor decided on Maya (6.0 back then).

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Unigraphics – my experience

September 3rd, 2009
NX5

NX5 splash screen, Copyright UGS

At my previous work I started working with Unigraphics v.17 shortly after I was hired (march 2001).

My main focus was in the applications Visualization and Drafting, since I was working with illustration for documentation.

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The Line by Xavier Agudo

September 3rd, 2009
A Place Between Here (aka Daniel Nielsen) will be making the visual effects for this short movie by Xavier Agudo.
“The project is his Thesis graduation film for the Master of Arts in Media Production program at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. The film is intended to be made at the highest standards of quality possible, using state of the art technology and pure storytelling to produce a strong film festival contender.” – from his official site.
You can read more about the movie here:
Official Site
Facebook
MySpace
WordPress Blog
Hopefully this movie will be featured in short film festivals in Autumn of 2009.
Update: Xavier got the highest grade possible at his masters degree and the premiere of his movie is set for 29th september 2009, after the premiere the movie will be featured at autumns short film festivals, so keep an eye open for “The Line” by Xavier Agudo

A Place Between Here (aka Daniel Nielsen) will be making the visual effects for this short movie by Xavier Agudo.

“The project is his Thesis graduation film for the Master of Arts in Media Production program at the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Germany. The film is intended to be made at the highest standards of quality possible, using state of the art technology and pure storytelling to produce a strong film festival contender.” – from his official site.

You can read more about the movie here:

Official Site

Facebook

MySpace

WordPress Blog

Xavier Aagudo finished his Masters degree with this film scoring best possible marks.

The film will premiere 29th September 2009 and can be seen at short film festivals over Europe late 2009.