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Manolito's Dream

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 I wrote about Txesco Montalt's work before , and here is a short that he created with Mayte Sanchez Solis.  Both of them worked on Pocoyo , one of the few pre-school shows I can watch without falling asleep.  Like Txesco's earlier work, it synchs beautifully to the soundtrack and while done in Flash, has lots of subtle shape-changing that gives it wonderful flexibility. I'm also in love with the simplicity of the design. The two are partnered in a company called Alla Kinda , and even their logo exudes charm.  Their site is worth checking out.

Txesco's Season's Greetings

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I've written about Txesco , an animator who worked on the Pocoyo series, before . He's created this beautifully designed and animated holiday greeting . Take a look.

Charming

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One of the interesting things about the web is that you can track which sites visitors to your site have come from. The majority of visitors here either come from animation sites that I'm familiar with or from Google searches of various types. Occasionally, I discover an animation site that is new to me. Txesco is a Spanish animator who worked on the animation and direction of Pocoyo , a pre-school cgi series that is probably my favorite cgi ever done for television. I didn't know his involvement when I visited Txesco's site, but having seen his work, it makes total sense. What I first saw was this piece of musical animation . There's no word to describe it except charming. In many ways, it is dead simple. The design is spare but elegant. The music is public domain and the musical arrangement is anything but fancy. The movement is not overly complex, but it does everything that good animation is supposed to do. The shapes change. That's one of the most ba...