About Me

My name is Oliver Villar.I have 23 years old, I’m from Spain and I worked as a graphic designer and 3d animator as a freelance since a few years ago. At the moment I'm at Madrid / Spain, working as a 3D Artist for a company that develops mobile phone's apps and new technologies related to 3D and augmented reality. I love painting, postproduction, visual effects and overall... 3D.

I started learning 3D about 6 or 7 years ago, using 3ds max. Then I tried XSI and finally switched to Maya. About 3 or 4 years ago, I discovered Blender and decided to learn how to use it. Now I use Blender for almost all my 3d projects.

I studied arts and made some courses about animation and 3D, but I have more interests and hobbies: I love to read books about psicology. Sometimes I use fantasy books as an inspiration, and I like a lot the cinema and watching movies :D I also enjoy with things like videogames, skating, jogging, listening to all kind of styles music...

Some time ago I had the idea of making a videotutorials web. In fact, before blendtuts I already made a few tutorials using 3ds max. Finally, at June 2010, I decided to make it a real project when I learnt a bit of Blender 2.5, and started making videotutorials for this new version of the Open Source project. The reasons behind this idea were just helping the Blender Comunity with some quality tutorials, and if it worked well, I thought about releasing some commercial tutorials from time to time, in order to get some money for being able for dedicating more time to the web, and mantaining it how it deserves :) That old idea is now a reality; I started with a quite tuned blog, and after a few months I had the oportunity, and started designing this web, wich I hope you learn something from.

Enjoy it! ;)