The Enamored Owl

Celebrating two years since I did a piece called "The Enamored Whale" which by the way has become in one of the more popular pieces in my portfolio now I have done a new piece inspired by that particular one, and probably the second of enamored creatures series. If you want to drop ideas n my brain what creature you guys would like to see in the future?
I really hope you like it!

Surfacing Show

A couple of new pieces I did for the Surfacing Show at Hibbleton Gallery.
Contact the Gallery for pricing or drop by to check them out if you are by the area:
112 W. Wilshire Ave.
Fullerton, CA 92832
714.441.2857


Equilibrium
10" X 13"
Acrylic on Paper


Concentration
10" X 13"
Acrylic on Paper

The Enamored Whale in Gelaskins

Yes, that's true! Now you can get "The Enamored Whale" to protect and decor your favorite laptop or gadget. Now Gelaskins is offering a lot more of new products. Also they have now Giclée prints, printed on heavyweight, environmentally-friendly, bamboo paper stock.

Download also a free wallpaper for you iPhone of this piece here.

Custom G2 Mutant

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.

Vinyl Toy 12" tall, acrylics.

Shiva >> Music video for Austin TV

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.


Austin TV / Shiva from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

This is an animatic we used to establish timing and a preliminary idea of action and sequences in the animation:

Animatic Shiva - Austin TV from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.

Here are some still images of the art used in the project.

Future / Collab

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!

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The Juggler

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.

Cereal caveman

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.

Cree en el Niño

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...

M.L.

This image belongs to a secret project I'm currently working on, I'm very exciting about this, stay tuned to know more about :)

Born Magazine Cover

Born Magazine, an online project in Portland about literary arts and interactive media recently invited me to create the cover for their next issue.

Despido

Commissioned illustration for Nexos magazine of American Airlines, this image was created to illustrate an story about getting fired.

Custom Mellow

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?

Thanks Nick for pushing me out in making this!

Dragon

New piece made for SFG weekly challenge

SHOWDOWN - One Show Interactive

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 :





Some early material I created for this project:

Logo exploration:


Characters exploration:



Background testing: