They steal in Almería the pc of José Lun, director of movies for U2, Linkin Park or Imagine Dragons

José Lun lives in Almería and from his house he makes music movies for worldwide teams akin to U2 or Linkin Park. For this motive, final week, when in the course of a transfer, his pc with 8 TB of data was stolen from his automotive, I don’t hesitate to supply as much as 2,000 euros to the one that returned it with out asking a single query.

“I give it up for misplaced,” says José, who doesn’t count on to recuperate all the roles and initiatives they’d saved on the pc. “Fortunately I had copies of virtually every part,” he tells NIUS, together with one in all his newest works, the video clip for the music ‘Love of Mind’ that he made for Imagine Dragons final September.

Except for the music, José Lun is answerable for making all the video clip, from design to animation. “These are jobs that take up many gigabytes,” he tells us, “and that is why it is inconceivable to have every part within the cloud.” He tries to make copies of every part he has, however nonetheless with the theft he has misplaced materials from his initiatives. “I did not think about that they might steal my pc tower”, he confesses to us.

a world profession

José Lun is from Granada. He studied on the School of Design and for a few years labored in promoting companies. “I acquired burned,” he tells us. The lengthy hours of labor and the tough circumstances led him to go away it and he set it up on his personal doing movement graphics work for international firms, particularly from the United States, one thing that he had already began doing with a companion years earlier than. .

“I principally make lyric movies,” says Joseé, they’re official video clips the place the lyrics of the music are proven and sometimes have extra views than the video clips themselves. “It’s a pattern that is scorching proper now within the United States,” he tells NIUS, “there’s fairly a little bit of animated video in music lately.”

José Lun started working for smaller teams and regularly grew. “They preserve calling you for larger ones”, he tells us, and that is how Linkin Park or U2 arrived, one of many jobs he had on his pc. “I’ve a particular affection for the work of U2 as a result of it’s a group that I’ve heard since I used to be little,” says José. Even extra so when Bono himself appeared in a piece videoconference to congratulate him on the video he made for his music ‘Your music saved my life’ from the film ‘Sing 2’.

misplaced materials

Although his works accumulate tens of millions of views, a lot of his movies couldn’t be performed in Europe. “I feel it is due to rights points,” says José, others as a result of they had been for projections of occasions by the teams themselves. Some of these movies he saved on the pc that was simply stolen from him in Almería. Among them, an unfinished work on the determine of Bob Marley that he was doing with relations of the Jamaican artist.

“I hope that no person does something with all that data,” says José Lun, referring to the editables, the initiatives of the supply information or some render that he didn’t copy… The work of a complete worldwide profession, which only a few they knew in Almería, snatched by somebody who most likely did not know what he was taking when he stole the pc.