Valle Paraiso

Directed by Eduardo Martín Julve

www.pixelinmotion.com/valleparaiso

Director Biography

            Eduardo Martín Julve was born May 23rd 1975 in Barcelona. He spent his childhood watching animated films and reading comic books, showing also a great interest in drawing and photography. During mid 90´s he got in touch with CGI enrolling ESCAC, one of the pioneer courses about computer graphics in Spain. In 1996 he starts working in the CG industry. He works in different companies doing CGI for multimedia products and industrial design projects. In 1998 he joins Videoefecto (largest post-production company in Spain) where he did 3D FX for TV commercials. During that period he co-directs his first short film "Smoke City". The film won some awards worldwide and even had a Goya Award nomination as best animated short film by the Spanish Academy.

      In 2000 he founded the animation studio Pixel in motion, offering services of CGI for TV commercials, films and videogames. In 2003 he starts working on the short film "Valle Paraiso", sharing his time betweenhis managing role in the company and the making of the film.

      Since 2007 he is working at Ilion Animation Studios as Lighting and compositing sequence lead for the feature film “Planet 51”.
            You can see some of his work at www.theposmaker.com.