I have had the immense honor of working on the documentary “Ramón y Cajal: dibujos en la retina” directed by Filmociencia. It released in 2026. These are some of the shots I prepared.
Category Archives: Documentary
Taking a picture at 350.000km from home
Recently I got obsessed with Sergei Korolev and his achievements during the short period of time he governed de Soviet Space Program. And in particular, I got really confused with the Lunik III story. The more I read, the more I didn’t understand. So in order to be able to comprehend how the USSR was able to take a picture of the dark side of the Moon in 1959, I dove deep in the issue and simulated the process. This is the result of this obsession.
[I’ll try to make an English version soon]
2024 Scixel Demoreel
It’s been quite a while since our last reel, so here it is. I have to say that I’ve been busy (thanks to you all), so I guess these delays are good news after all. This summary of the last couple of years makes symbolizes 12 years of Scixel, which is also kind of special.
La saga de la Tercera Hija (Canto V)
The Third Daughter saga is this project of ours in which we try to tell the story of the Earth as if it was a myth: with the poetry of myths and the beauty of science. This project was put on hold due to my commitments with my real job. But now I’m trying to find time to finish it. Hope you like it!
In this chapter we tell the story of the birth of Wâljei.
A strange couple of years…
It’s been a strange couple of years with worldwide issues that have affected us all. But here at Scixel, we can be nothing but grateful. First of all, the pandemic didn’t affect us in a serious way, neither us nor our families. Second, our clients continued with their usual hard work from home. And that deserves a huge ovation for the scientists all over the world. Their effort did not only kept us on business, but in better shape than ever. And finally, we kept working with Filmociencia and started working with Patricia Bondia, and that alone is something to be grateful for.
Here I leave you with a short summary of our work during the last two years. And as always, thank you all for making Scixel possible.
The Saga goes on!
The Saga of the Third Daughter has reached its fourth chapter: The Battle of the Giants in which the origin of the oceans is told. In the following months, life will appear and it will establish the principles of a huge disaster. But that is yet to come.
The Third Daughter
We’ve started a new project called The Saga of the Third Daughter, a series of videos telling the story of the Great Oxidation Event. Interestingly, or so we think, these videos are not designed to be part of an outreach project. We wanted to tell this story as if it was a classic creation myth.
Sadly, for the moment, the videos will be only in Spanish, although an English voice over would be an option in the future.
Here we present the first Book, hope you like it!
You can check the following releases here. Also, in the website we “translate” the poetry of the tale and explain the real story in which the saga is base.
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Condensed matter physics is a big unknown, even for 2nd year physics students, let alone theoretical condensed matter physics. And funny enough, this branch of physics covers a huge percentage of the reality around us. It covers quantum physics, biophysics, fluids, materials, optics and acoustics, or low temperatures, just to name a few of its interests. Yet, few people know about it.
At the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics department, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid are actively trying to fill this gap. They’ve made a video to inform and try to bring closer students and young people to this beautiful and amazing area of science. And Scixel happened to be around.
We’ve spend a great time working with them, discussing and creating this piece. Hope you like it and pay them a visit!
Dust: the origin
We already talked about the project NANOCOSMOS in this website. This is a huge ERC funded project directed by Prof. José Cernicharo which has put together research groups from Spain and France. The researchers working in this project are trying to “unveil the physical and chemical conditions in the dust formation zone of evolved stars.”
A year ago, Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch (Public Information Officer of the project), approached me to create a short documentary explaining the aims of this research. Now, a year later, its been made public. Scixel worked both in the animations and the music. Hope you enjoy this piece as much as we enjoyed making it.
Apart from the pleasure that is to work with Natalia, the intrinsic beauty of this research, made this collaboration a big moment of Scixel’s short history.
Demoreel 2017-2018
This demo has taken two years… documentaries, advertising, covers, pictures… we’ve been pretty busy lately.