2D Character/Creature Animation

Here is a sample of my latest work on character and creature 2D animation. 

The first images will be familiar if you have seen my other videos. So the new stuff is:

- The two men outside the restaurant,
- the flying dog with the red cape,
- the two superhero characters,

- and some of the creatures in the last segment, Seeds of Ralark. 

More creatures will come in the following weeks as soon as the game is released in XBOX Live. 

All characters, creatures and environments were developed by different illustrators. I only take credit for 2 of the marathon kids, the Blond and the African-Ecuadorian one. 

Videogame creatures animated with puppet tool

UPDATE: check the post from April 03, 2013 for the latest animations!

This is one of the latest projects I have been involved in. Due to this agreement I am not able to give away any details but I am allowed to show what I have done so far. These creatures were completely animated in After Effects using the puppet tool. This process is known as "cut-out" animation, this is not my first time doing it so that is why I am involved in this videogame.

Hopefully I will be able to show you some other stuff in the near future. I hope you enjoy these few animations. The illustrations are not mine, I repeat, illustrations were done by another artist, I only take credit for the animation. All artwork, animations are the property of Escapism Entertainment.

2D artwork - Informative for Democracy

This is a compilation of the 2D artwork from the "Informative for Democracy" project I was involved in until January 2011.

For one year I illustrated and animated these backgrounds and cartoons. The animation is really simple, cut-out style for the characters and a few lip-sync here and there. Everything creation is mine, in some cases I had photographic references.

In every infomercial you could tell there were different plants, trees, people, clothes, food and so on. The pictures you are going to see are just a small compilation of all the work I did for a year. We did 20+ infomercials and the number of new illustrations (single objects) was between 80 and 100 for each new infomercial. All are hi-res images!

As you can see there is a lot of ethnic races. Well, the idea was to depict most of the Ecuadorian culture we could.

Next, this video collects a few backgrounds with some animation. I take credit for all the illustrations you see there except for the traffic signs, the trees silhouettes, and water texture you see before the last scene. Those came from a vector library. 

I hope you enjoy all of these and expect some comments. I will be gone for a while, it is time to work on some new challenges!

Stop Motion - Puppets, Scenery

And now we are going to see pictures of a stop-motion project I did while studying. Here I did a lot of things, character designs (which were not chosen), scenery design (outside look of a mansion), puppet fabrication (2 characters), scenery building (front view of the mansion), and also a couple of Condor for the mansion. Because we wanted the project to have a "local feeling" we had the 2 huge birds as statues. The mansion was partially based on some architecture from Quito's civic center.

Sketches

All mine.

Condor birds

All mine. For the skeleton I used, wire and flex foam. For the body sculpting: air hardening modelling clay and plasticine. In the final stage I mixed regular white glue with blue acrylic paint. After putting it over the sculpted body with a flat brush, I got a nice stone-look with cracks. You can see it helped a lot.

Characters

I worked on the skeletons and bodies of the 2 characters (an old man and his servant), costumes were made by a classmate. Partial animation of the servant was done by me. Below: the servant. The guy in the third picture is a painter, done by a classmate.

Scenery

These interiors are not mine, just wanted to show what we achieved in this class. I will add a few pictures of the mansion soon.

More pictures and animation tests coming soon.

Student Work

These are a few sketches I did while I was attending "Universidad San Francisco de Quito".

The "mustache robot" and the "biped reptile" where characters that made their way to 3D; the rest where done in my spare time. Some people said that the "kid in the corner" was me. It was not my intention but tuned out to be true, he looks like me!

Now, at the bottom you will see some color images, the first is inspired from a frog picture (Pete Oxford & Renee Bish, Ecuador: Tierra de Sapos - 2004;), the second is also inspired from a picture (Tomasz Tomaszewski, National Geographic Magazine - June 2005) and the last one was part of the "Human Figure Drawing" class.

Please feel free to leave any comments, I will appreciate them!