Welcome to my world / Bienvenidos a mi mundo

18 oct 2012 2 comments

Finally I have decided to release my website and blog, today I open my doors to the online world. Professionals and colleagues, friends and family, are all welcome and I encourage you to follow me here. The blog is divided into three main sections: “Works” (posts strictly related with material and shows of my job), “Personal” (where I will provide any subject of my interest) and “Showreel” (posts with samples or video compilations of my works). Furthermore, you will find the "Labels" menu on the right column, where I will classify differents sub-categories for an accesible and comfortable navegation through the blog content. I will try to update the posts several times a week, so you don’t lose me sight. You can subscribe through RSS or follow me on Twitter, where I will warn of each new blog post. Thanks a lot and I hope read you in the comments!!

Okros Project

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Here I leave some character design, concept art and sample panels of a comic project of fantasy, romance and adventures, which plot turn around some characters along four different stories, set on different ages and places, but they always have as a common nexus to Okros, a legendary and mythologic sword, forged from immemorial times and that keeps in her blade the tormented soul of a miserable being, a devil with eternal blood thirst, who will trick and go mad to everyone who take up the sword.

The comic story is based on a short story of my brother (which actually is displayed in the first of the four stories) and have approximately a 140 pages extension (between 30 and 40 pages by part). I have written the full story, but for now only the first story or chapter is drawed and almost finished. I hope to can finish the rest some day and publish them on two volumes (probably on digital format)





Brokend Land - Concept Art

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A couple concept arts of a project titled "Broken Land", which script I wrote about one year ago with the idea of filming three fiction shortfilms (real filming with actors, not animation), and so do a mini-trilogy. On fact, only the first part of the script could be considered as solid draft script, the other ones have to be refined a lot yet, although I  already have the main idea defined. The good thing is that the first part could works fine as a closed history, so I can shoot it and wait to see her acceptation, and depending that and the economic circunstances, leave the history as ended or continue with the rest.

On a unknown future, Broken Land has been submerged by the darkness and surrender to the absolutely control of the feared Sentinels. Along decades, any resistences have been useless, on the street only stay the dust and ashes of those who refused to be converted, and the toxic air that is breathed is carrier of "The Mark", a strange ill that causes a premature aging into the few survivors who yet hide around the underground of the city. The only hope is on those young rebels, not yet affected by the ill, who refuse to surrender, and still fighting to try to take back which is theirs, what belong them by birth... their home

I have really wanted to shoot this project, but I already have another one on the way, which have had more possibilities to go head, so this one have to wait a bit more.



Showreel 2011

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A 2011 compilation with some of my works as animator, filmmaker, illustrator/character designer, or post-production & VFX artist. The most of the video material are work requests, but also included contents about personal projects. If you need more information or just want to know something more about any contents of this video, don't doubt and ask me, please. I apologize for the low resolution of some samples, but the original material of some sequences are available only in SD (Standard definition). I hope to get more works in HD resolutions to include in future showreels. Anyway push HD button to watch it in High Definition on Vimeo, please. Thanks and enjoy!!


Freaks Night Show

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The main character of this illustration has quite years, I remember that I still was doing the animation degree when I sketched to this peculiar "Vampirella". I recovered the sketch back from my abandoned drawings folder, and with the premiere of the animated film "Hotel Transylvania" on this days, I wanted to resume it again and I ended up to add all a group of classic freaks (if you had to choose one, who would you choose? I choose the Kraken and Franky, just because they give a bit more colorfull to the picture, although the action line is better on Vampirella, at less for me)

Hand drawn just with pencils, a bit clean up on SketchBook Pro, and colored on Photoshop.



The Shadow Line . A brilliant darkly thriller

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I found with this british miniserie some weeks ago, a BBC production of seven episodes which has been a great surprise. It caught quickly my attention, and even before I could know how much would be able to enjoy it, I already was trapped fully.

The plot, set on the present London, turn around the conflict to the drugs traffic inside United Kingdom, and above all on the murder case of a important and feared drug dealer, who had recently been set free of jail after receiving a royal pardon for his crimes. From this point, the crime investigation will be carried of parallel way on both sides: the drug dealers, and the police, which will give to the viewers a vision from different angles. On one hand, we have the detective Jonah Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who is fronting the case while try overcome an amnesia suffered because of a recent head shoot, and on the other hand, Joseph Bede (Christopher Eccleston), right hand of the dead drug dealer, who is forced to take the leadership of the group and try keep the dead man's nephew in line, even when his only wish is really go away of this life and try to overcome the hard moments that lives with his wife. In the perspective of these characters, we must add a third character, the mysterious, darkly, merciless and calculating Gatehouse (a sublime Stephen Rea), whose important role always seems be hidden behind a unknown loyalties and purpose. Under this triangle of characters, a complicated plot is developed, these ones where you need pay a lot of attention, and while some things are clarify, others is muddled even more, thanks in part to the subplots which keep other characters, some of them quite important (like the Peter Glickman character, played by Antony Sher, who share with Stephen Rea one of the top sequences of entire serie for me)

Two spotlights emerge from the darkness, two cops with flashlights on hand illuminate a car with a dead man inside. After check the crime scene, one of them, the most experienced, says to the other: "This is not for us, We are going to pass it and after, we left away of the picture as much as we can...because whoever takes over this fucking issue, sure as shit will be his death". After, He points at the dead man with his fingers, as if were a gun, and shoots: bang, bang...bang! The case is open and the series titles appears, accompanied for her brilliant main song, which finish to put the icing on the cake to the first superb sequence of the TV show. Nothing more is neccesary, sometimes you just need a minute to know that you bump into something which you will need see without choice...Shadow Line is one of this times.

Impeccable technically, shoot with extreme exquisiteness, and surronded with a worrying atmosphere, darkly and oppresive, The Shadow Line contain some of the best sequences than I have ever seen on a TV serial, and the best part is that this good work is keeping from the first sequence to the last one. Although the flatteries for the series are a lot, I need to confess that there are a few narrative gaps, and moments a bit hard to believe, on part because the dialogue lines finish to be too bombastic and grandiloquente. But this only happens in very few occasions, and it be make up for with the accompaniment of a great performances, among them, is should be pointed out the Gatehouse character, playing by talented Stephen Rea, who eats the camera on every plane.

In short, this series revelation of 2011, written, produced and directed by Hugo Blick, unquestionably deserves to be discovered for all those who still don't know it. If you don't seen it yet, and you like the genre, you are already wasting time...run to see it!!


 
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