Julio del Rio Hernandez

Phone: ++44 (0) 7958632259

E-mail: julio@juliodelrio.com
Webpage: www.juliodelrio.com

Nationality: Spanish

Julio del Rio Hernandez was born in Pamplona (Spain), in september 1969. Fine Arts degree at the University of Pais Vasco (Spain), he works in professional animation since 1997, and has worked in Spain, France, Luxembourg and England as animation supervisor and traditional&3D senior animator in several feature films, TV series, videogames and TV commercials. 

He also writed, animated, directed and produced three animated shortfilms, "Visiones de Eunate", "The Incredible Invasion of the Green Plants", and "Brothers", 

Professional experience

2008:  Senior animator on the feature film "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince" at The Moving Picture Company (MPC), London (England).

2007-2008:  Lead animator on the feature film "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" at The Moving Picture Company (MPC), London (England).

2006-2007:  Senior animator on the feature film "10000 BC" at The Moving Picture Company (MPC), London (England).

2006: Senior animator on several TV commercials at The Mill, London (England). 

2006: Animation supervisor on the GORILLAZ show for the 2006 BRIT AWARDS at Mac Guff Ligne, Paris (France). Production: Passion Pictures. 

2005: Senior animator on several TV commercials and promos, including the GORILLAZ MTV Europe Awards show at Passion Pictures, London (England). 

2005: TD/Lighter & animator on Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet TV series at The Indestructible Production Company, London (England). 

2004: Lead 3d animator on 3 TV commercials for 7UP at Partizan Midi-Minuit, Paris (France).
 
2004: Senior 3d animator on a Cinematic for the game "Settlers", and a trailer for "Prince of Persia 2" at Ubisoft, Paris  (France). 

2004: Lead 3d animator on 2 TV commercials for M&Ms at Partizan Midi-Minuit, Paris  (France). 

2003 - 2004: Senior 3d animator on 3 TV commercials for 7UP at Partizan Midi-Minuit, Paris (France). 

2003 - 2004: Making of "Brothers", an independent animated shortfilm, entirely made by Julio del Rio.

2003: Lead 3d animator on the 30'' TV film "La Paix" at Sparx, Paris  (France). 

2003: Making of the animation, modeling, texturing, rendering & compositing for "Motell Rio", a TV series teaser. 

2002:  Senior 3d animator on the feature film "Renart the Fox" at Oniria Pictures, Luxembourg.

2000 -  2001: Animation supervisor on "Bob's beach", a 3d tv series at Oniria Pictures, Luxembourg.  My role was to supervise a team of 20 animators in the making of 52 episodes of 12 minutes each.

1999 : 3d animator, modeler and texture artist at Ubisoft Spain, Barcelona (Spain).

1997 - 1998:  Traditional animator on the feature film "Goomer" at Merlin animación, Bilbao (Spain). 
Layout artist and assistant animator on the feature film "Marco Antonio, rescate en Hong Kong"
Layout artist and traditional animator  on several TV series as "The Foxbusters", "Sooty", "Captain Pugwash", "Pumby", "La bruixa Avorrida", and others at Merlin animación, Bilbao (Spain). 

1996 - 1997: Making of "La increíble invasión de las plantas verdes" (The incredible invasion of the green plants), an independent animated shortfilm entirely made by Julio del Rio. 

1995 : Making of "Visiones de Eunate" (visions of Eunate), an independent animated shortfilm entirely made by Julio del Rio. 

Julio del Rio's Filmography
 
2004: "BROTHERS"   Author/Director
The film was selected and screened in the following festivals:
CINANIMA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL 2004 (Portugal)
ANIMADRID 2004 (Spain)
CARTOOMBRIA NEW ANIMATED IMAGES FESTIVAL 2004  (Italy)
PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2005 (Austria)
ART FUTURA 2005 (Spain)
CINEMA INVISIVEL 2006 (Portugal)
CORTOONS 2006 (Italy)
					
1997: "THE INCREDIBLE INVASION OF THE GREEN PLANTS"    Author/director
The film was selected and screened in the following festivals:
ANIMAC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION 1998 (Spain)
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF ELCHE 1998 (Spain)
FESTIVAL DE VIDEO DE VITORIA 1998 (Spain)

1995: "VISIONES DE EUNATE"   Author/director
The film was selected and screened in the following festivals:
FESTIVAL DE VIDEO DE NAVARRA 1995 (Spain)

Formation

Fine Arts degree, at the University of Pais Vasco (Spain).
Five years of drawing and painting education at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios (State Art School)  in Pamplona, Spain.
Several years working as a stained glass maker in Pamplona (Spain).

Software knowledge

MAYA, 3ds MAX & Character Studio, Lightwave 3d, Softimage XSI.
Others: Zbrush, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere.

Languages

Spanish (mother tongue), English (very good), French (very good).