We like it when babies wear our logo. Which is why we designed itty bitty versions of our t-shirts and give them out to our extended family members -- like the fantastic editors,...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
We welcome producer Dan Carrillo Levy to the Features Side of the Cortez Brothers equation. A native of Mexico City who lives in the US, he exemplifies the best of our collective aim to move fluidly between both cultures, and Spanish and English, with grace and ease and a good sense of humor. Dan came to us via noted Mexican writer/director Guillermo...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
KAUST: Breakwater Beacon Inauguration
After 4 months of documentation and modelling, and finally construction, the Breakwater Beacon is finished.Designed by Daniel Tobin & Jamie Perrow of Urban Art Projects and...
Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Customized Revit Families - Revit Content
Although I haven't downloaded this content, it looks to be fairly good quality if it all works as advertised. Although for some items they are overmodelling which may potentially cause issues on larger projects with the amount of detail that is being shown. One would hope they have set the models correctly with coarse, medium and fine displays and...
Friday, June 26, 2009
First, we welcome Sondra Jovel to our team; she joins us from Imaginary Forces and will serve as our General Market rep in charge of bringing some Cortez Brothers-style goodness to the world at large. Second, awards season is upon us and congratulations are in order for some of our favorite directors. Simón Bross and our sister production company...
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Conceptual Mass - Defining Area to control width & length automatically
In this quick tutorial I've taken a request from Ry on linkedin to produce a rectangular mass family where you can set the area, then use grips to change the length and width whilst still maintaining the required ar...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
We’re busy, busy, busy shooting, shooting and shooting right now... The Cortez Brothers managed to survive Swine Flu ’09 by shifting our shoots out of Mexico and into other countries and cities, including our beloved home base of Los Angeles. We’ve shot projects for AT&T, AARP, Wal-Mart, Bud Light, Wendy’s and a few other notable brands. Also,...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Conceptual Mass (2010) - Octagon Panels & Mitring
This is just a simple little tutorial that talks about how to get your edges to cleanup without a gap for both sides of your panel. I hope someone finds it useful.Due to some issues with Blogger this took a while to get online...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Revit Elevation/Section View Depth Clipping workaround
Hello readers, This is another one of those workarounds that I've been doing for a while and wasn't aware that a lot of people didn't know of it. Its a very quick method to creating depth in your elevations/sections without adding masses, using the linework tool, or utilising shadows. (although in Revit 2010, with directx turned on printing of views...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Autodesk release 2010 Product Line Up
Autodesk today started shipping there 2010 product lineup.http://store.autodesk.com/store/adsk/DisplayHomePageRevit 2010 introduces:New User Interface (ribbon) - which from my experience is a better implementation than most other platforms that have implemented the ribbon.Conceptual Modelling tools - A complete redesign for the conceptual design modelling...
Friday, March 20, 2009
Two bits of news... First, the Cortez Brothers (or BB Rivero, at least) is happy to report having served on the jury of the Promax/BDA awards for the second year running. Promax is an association for promotion and marketing execs in electronic media and the Broadcast Designers' Association is the org for pros who work in motion graphics. Which is...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Building Information Modelling Asia 2009
I've recently returned from a conference on BIM in Singapore. Apart from an injury I received on the flight home I considered it to be a very worthwhile event.There were key speakers from Developers, representatives of BuildingSMART, Tekla, Autodesk, Gehry Technologies as well as numerous others.I guess the biggest thing I got out of it was that Revit...
Friday, February 27, 2009
After an exceptionally busy start to the new year, we are happy to report that we have shot spots for everything and everyone under the sun -- including beer, pizza, burgers, phones, cereal, enormous superstores, soft drinks and everything else you would want to hole up in the house with (or near) to outlast the Apocalypse. We have also added a few...
Monday, January 5, 2009
Happy 2009, and we raise a toast to the beginning of a new production season. We just wrapped shoots in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina (both solo and via our partners) and will be heading back to Mexico soon for another one. We're adding a few new directors to our roster and we'll reveal them shortly... Otherwise, we're battening down the hatches...
