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!

The Patriots - Compositing, 2D & 3D artwork

This compilation depicts my compositing job in "The Patriots". The project was developed during the Ecuadorian Bicentennial in July - August 2009. I take credit for most of the 3D renders. Some models were donde by an intern. Texturing, lighting and rendering was my task. 2D artwork was done by former mentor & friend Gustavo Idrovo.

The Patriots ("Los Patriotas" in spanish) aired in ECTV, an Ecuadorian TV station. The show a time-period interview-like show. Important figures from the Ecuadorian revolution and further independence were portrayed by actors. Our artwork came in whenever they would recall important moments before, during and after the revolution. As you will see, there are still images and a few scenes that look like a motion-comic. If you would like to know more about this project please take a look at my previous post from July 2011: "The Patriots".

Rotoscoping - 2D illustrations (Reina de Quito 2010-2011)

Here are some scenes from the 12 spots that I worked on in 2010. By the end of every year, Quito (Ecuador's capital city) celebrates its foundation anniversary. And so, a new Queen is elected for a one-year-term. This event is known as Queen of Quito ("Reina de Quito" in spanish).

A few months ago I got the chance to work on 12 spots, each one for each candidate. My job was to put some 2D artwork, clean up the streets or the sky and so on. It was kind of easy but like any rotoscoping gig, it takes a lot of time and patience to work with masks. I worked in After Effets, Toon Boom Studio and Photoshop. I only take credit for the illustrations. The spots were developed to introduce the candidates to the city of Quito and Ecuador of course.

2D Backgrounds - Nature Landscapes

This backgrounds are the ones I enjoyed the most. Most of the backgrounds done for the "Informative for Democracy" were illustrated in Toon Boom Studio. In this post you will see a different style.

Highlands
As you can see there is no contour lines on these images. One day I was asked to do something different and I did it. I just sat down in front of the computer, opened photoshop and began painting with my tablet. Once I finished the first background they told me "you are going for something more realistic now, go for it". In the third image you will see I put some texture, it was the only time.

Mother - children farewell
Here I did the same. Texture images were used for the house. The school that is far away in the back was done by another illustrator.

Coast
For these backgrounds I had to use photographic reference. A few texture images were provided also. First image depicts a random beach, the second one, the city of Manta.

Amazon rainforest
This is one of the very first backgrounds I did for this huge project. I knew that more TV Spots were on their way so I was like "I'm going to need a lot of stuff in the future". From that time on, I illustrated a lot of single objects. For the next projects I had a library that was just getting bigger and bigger. This background was composed from single objects in After Effects. it was used to show oil extraction.

2D Backgrounds - Miscellaneous

Backgrounds come from the "Informative for Democracy" project also. Here I will describe a few of them so you know what I did in each case.

Roads and neighborhoods
First 4 images come from a 3D setup I did in After Effects. They depict the Ecuadorian Coast region. Cartoon characters were drawn in Toon Boom Studio.

Oil refinery
Just a random refinery I did, it does not represent any real place.

Real locations
First picture depicts one of the police headquarters in the city of Quito. The second one is Montecristi (a coastal city), where the new Ecuadorian Constitution was elaborated. And the last one is the government's palace in the capital city of Quito, it is known as "Palacio de Carondelet".

Various

City in the highlands
This images depict the city of Quito, they come from a 3D setup that was done in After Effects. I take credit for everything except for the traffic signs and little dog.

2D Backgrounds - Interiors

All this background collection comes from my work done in 2010. I was involved in the "Informative for Democracy" TV Spots developed for the Ecuadorian government's "Secretary of Communication". We spent a lot of time in this project, a year actually. Well, here is what I did in Photoshop and Toon Boom Studio. I take credit for the backgrounds painting and compositing. Just a few vector images and a few textures were provided to me. Photographic reference turned out to be really useful a couple of times.

Some backgrounds were painted with just solid colors in Toon Boom Studio. Shadows and gloss/brightness were later added in Photoshop.