Christina's Book

This painting is a testament of how hard I find to paint something digitally and avoid the clean digital look. Its very hard not to overdo things. And it probably needs more work simplifying things and adding better colors. I started this on my ipad on a coffee shop.We just woke up and I thought I wanted to do a pastel-y type of sketch of my girlfriend while she read her book.

It started being fun and all, but soon I started to struggle , finding the right shadows and colors and most importantly , not having a good solid pencil sketch to start with really made it more difficult. I used the smudge tool a lot to avoid that clean smooth look that you normally get in digital painting.

Frozen Teaser!

Here’s the teaser for the movie I’m currently working on!. I did some reindeer scenes in this one.

Frozen Teaser!

Future movies at Disney

 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-disney-big-hero-6-frozen-20130508-dto,0,4722556.htmlstory

Check out this article from LA times!

Future movies at Disney

Animayo 2013

Here's a couple of pictures of my presence in the animation festival Animayo. Since the year 2006, the International Festival of Animated Films, Visual Effects and Video-games, ANIMAYO is consolidating in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as a reference of animation in Spain.
I was honored to be invited to the festival and share my experiences with the students. It was a great experience !

Lino Di Salvo Caricature

Lino is our Animation Supervisor on Frozen. He uses his charms and stylish poses to lead us into the impossible challenge of finishing this movie on time!

Lino Di Salvo Caricature

Uli Meyer featured at Cartoon Brew!

My friend an mentor Uli Meyer gets a front page article at Cartoon Brew! He’s an amazing artist and a really generous man! He helped me out when I was a young inexperienced animation student knocking on the door of his prestigious studio in London. He believed in me and gave me the right opportunity at the right time . I feel extremely lucky that I crossed paths with this animation legend . Thanks Uli!!

 

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/books/artist-of-the-day-uli-meyer-79978.html

Uli Meyer featured at Cartoon Brew!

My Wreck-it Ralph Shots

In November 2012 Wreck it Ralph was released in the US, It became my second major feature film at Disney animation, and the theme of the movie could not be more appropriate for me, a video game nerd!  Here are the shots I worked on.This time I was pleased to get more acting and dialogue shots , but also some more physical action shots. I had lots of fun , specially animating the “Street Fighter ” scene in glorious 16-bit!
Go to the Ralph page in my website for more info.


My Wreck-it Ralph Shots

Mijta Rabar Caricature

Mitja is a great italian CG animator, and probably the most famous person in Trieste!

Check this post on my website Mijta Rabar Caricature

Wreck it Ralph concept art at AWN!

AWN network just posted a new article featuring some cool concept art from the movie, in celebration of the recent release on DVD/BluRay.  on March 5th.





http://www.awn.com/news/art/wreck-it-ralph-concept-art-unveiled/page/1%2C1


Wreck it Ralph concept art at AWN!

Greek dancing...

We went to see a greek dancing competition in which my girlfriend´s sister was participating. I was of course carrying my ipad and I sketched something real quick. It was like a big stage and with judges and all, it seemed like it was a huge thing for this kids to be up there performing this elaborated choreography. 

Greek dancing...

Huggtopus in "So Much Love"

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos/huggtopus-in-so-much-love-by-nina-rappaport-rowan-and-gordon-clark-76607.html

This video clip that I worked on together with Santi Agusti , was featured at CartoonBrew today!! I did the rough animation of all characters , and Santi did the art direction, type design and some additional animation.

Happy Holidays!!

Gesture sketching

A Dangerous Place..!

Here´s a piece of Photoshop painting that I have been doing in the spare times. I included also some of the process stages that I went through. 

Anna is a character featured in my comic book "Attack of the Flip" that I did last year.

I had this sketch of her , just to keep the continuity of the clothing , as a one-sheet model sheet... 

Then I decided that I liked the pose and scanned it to maybe one day give it some color and stuff..

Played a bit with the perspective here and there, and tried to get a more badass look in general, adding a bow , but I ultimately decided against it. 

Months later... I finally started painting!! just for fun I did a very rough color pass in one layer and went on from there...Then zoomed in and slowly worked the individual areas. 

The inspiration comes from various sources but probably the videogame Skyrim was the most influential. I just love this sword and fantasy themes and I enjoyed a lot giving my own take on that on this illustration. I hope you guys like it!, and if you do, leave some comments , they are greatly appreciated!

Real watercolors are fun!

We are lucky enough to be have some cool drawing workshops here at work. Today I wanted to try some watercolor.