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:

Peluche

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.

Video:


Peluche: the Music Video from Static of the Gods on Vimeo.
Style Frames:
(Click over to see them bigger)


Original illustration of the main character, used for the 3D model:


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:

Weekly Dig

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! :)

Tres

Digital illustration.

SuiCycle

A look at what goes in, what goes out, and how everything we swallow gives the environment a case of indigestion. SuiCycle is a lively, multi-textured animated short with a darkly comic style at odds with the subject matter, Suicycle—intended to play as a never-ending loop— The piece was created specifically for the 2007 DesignPolitics exhibition in Santiago, Chile: a forum for "visual ideologies" comprised of the best issue-driven design work from around the globe.

All the illustrations were done as animated mask shapes in After Effects.

Revista Complot

The mexican magazine named Complot commissioned me to do two illustrations for the december-january issue, these pieces were are to illustrate two different stories.

Morbo:



Las Dos:


Thanks to Maricarmen, the editor for inviting!

In Communication Arts!

Wow! So glad to be featured in this month (November) issue, in the Fresh section of the design annual Communication Arts magazine.

60 Unite for Children

I just got my copy, the book is great and I'm so honored to share pages with very talented designers and illustrators. The concept behind this book published by APAG editions in France was celebrate the 60th anniversary of UNICEF inviting 60 illustrators all around the globe to come up with a piece related to childhood and a quote. Above you can see how the cover book looks and my participation for it.

You can buy the book here or check the official website.

Paper Pushers

I was invited to be part of this show at 1988 Gallery in San Francisco, the theme is open but all the works are in paper. I did five new pieces from a series called "Maquinaria Interna" all in coffee and ink on 7X10" paper. Inspired in part by the day of the dead, yes the mexican celebration.

Kokeshi Dolls

Pieces created for the show Kokeshi running from November 3rd to December 17th at Subtext Gallery in San Diego. If you are by don't miss the show, a lot of kick ass artists are showing, I feel very lucky to be part of it.
I did a Zombie Kokeshi and Space Man Kokeshi, both are acrylic on wood.

Hanged Fish

Personal piece commissioned by my wife to decorate our kitchen.

David Bowie

Digital Illustration:

Detail:

Sketch:

Joey Ramone

Hopefully this is the first one of a series for this musicians-portraits tribute I'm planning to do. Let's see if the time is generous with me in order to complete the project. Here you go Mr. Joey Ramone

Skateboard Deck

This is a recent piece part of an art gallery display organized by Zack Cochran. This is to raise funds for build a skate park in Atlanta and apparently people like David Carson, Tim Biskup, Shepard Fairey, Sage Vaughn, Duncan Jago, Chris Pastras are going to paint decks for this exhibition. So excited to be part of this!