Some time a go there was an art show inviting several artists to customize a G2 Mutant vinyl toy, the fabulous mascot of Nike 6.0 I wasn't invited to the be part of the show but recently my friend Jamal, who actually was in charge to 3D model this guy at Nemo Design asked me to customize his own copy of the very limited edition (6 pieces). And this is the result, he just said – I like Dia de los Muertos stuff– So, I did something expressing a bit that.
Finally the music video for the single Shiva of mexican indie-instrumental band Austin TV is out and in rotation of regular broadcast of MTV Latin America and some other local TV music shows, I directed the video and did all the art used and a very talented guy named Diego Huacuja helped out with the animation and compositing, all was done in an intense record time of one month and everybody evolved in the project is very happy with the final result.
The story is based in an original idea of the fine mates from Austin TV, the booklet of the album it comes with a bunch of pages with sketches and stories written by this fictional character named Mario Lupo and the video tells just one of these surreal stories, when he and his xoloscuincle dog, Kerdoc, went to take a walk and accidentally fell in a subterranean magical forest that at the end results in the Devil's cave.
The illustrative magazine Göoo from Argentina recently invited me to collaborate with a pice for the issue No. 6 coming up, the theme was Future and this is what I came up with. Hope you like it!
The other night I did this little guy just for fun, then I decided to animate him but now I'm not sure what I can do with him, maybe I'll complete the animation as a little short.
I recently was invited by Passion Pictures to create a character development study for a cereal TV spot, the request was just some simple sketches and a color suggestion of this chocolate caveman.
Recently I was contacted by an advertising agency in Madrid, Spain named Sra. Rushmore, they commissioned me to create an image to compete for a lottery campaign of Spain. This campaign is focused in the children, not sure how this works and if is legal in Spain for the kids to play lottery but the main idea was based in trust in your kids to choose the numbers, the image shows a kid happy to introduce the monster that lives in his closet, this is the proof! You can trust in what he say...
An art collector named Nick contacted to me some time a go to request a custom vinyl toy, I said yes without even to know what toy he wanted me to customize, actually also he wasn't sure by then, yet. A little later I received the Mellow figure designed by Christopher Lee. And an email from the same guy, he thought this figure would be a perfect canvas for my characters, so I did it and this is the result, I'm very pleased with the result and really like to work in 3D object. Who knows? Maybe this is the beginning of a new line of vinyl toys :) Ha! Why not?
This year the advertising competition One Show Interactive is going to wear mexican wrestler masks to show who is better in "lucha libre". As part of the One Show 2008 my very talented friends of Grupo W had developed this online tournament where all the ad agencies in the competition will fight between them, no matter the size of the agency they represent. I was invited to collaborate in this project with character development, I provided a couple of ideas for Art Direction but them built the rest, including all the great shots you'll find in the special movements during the fight. Check out the ShowDown!
Check out also these funny videos they produced to promote the event and the game, I totally love the animations at the end :
The last project I did over Curiosity Group was this music video for the single called Peluche (Plush) from the Boston-based band Static Of The Gods, I did the art direction, character design, overall illustrations and some animations for this piece. I have the chance to collaborate with some good friends in this project, Jamal Qutub who modeled the main character "Teddy Bear" in 3D and worked in most of the animation, including the band playing. And Brandon Schoessler, who did all the compositing, edition, background animations and particles.
Steve Klinetobe who is one of the partners of Curiosity Group came up with the original idea of the bear falling and my buddy Dale Basye who helped out to write an describe the scenes for the flashbacks. Basically the video shows the falling of this depressed peluche bear and is interrupted for little flashbacks of his miserable live, not everything is cute for these plush creatures. In addition we made sequences of the charactered band in performance on the bear's tummy during his fall. And you can guess the end, maybe is fatal or maybe is not.
Thanks a lot to Jen, Mike and Ben, the members of the band for trust in my work and give us the freedom to play with their great music.
I created a bunch of creatures that makes appearing n the background when the band is playing, unfortunately you can't really perceive them in movement really well. These are some of them:
Some final inks from my preliminary sketches to compose the animated scenes:
The weekly magazine "Weekly Dig" of Boston, MA has published my piece Blue Demon for their cover in the first issue of 2008. Thanks to Mike Latulippe and Jennifer Johnson from the band Static Of The Gods for introduce my work to them and Tak Toyoshima from WG to make it possible! I was famous in Boston at least for one week! :)
