Episode N.13 Nahuales in the Neighborhood - belongs to project called: “Mean While in Rurbia” with 15 episodes. This story in particular takes place in a mountain area in which the main characters a coyote and a dog runs away deep in the forest while the dog’s owners look up for him.
For this part of the animatic for Episode 13 “NAHUALES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD” I feel it deserved its own page, since there is a lot of art developed to create the forest and all the paths our characters needed to be in.
La Vendetta is a story about a mother avenging her son. For this personal project, I developed the environment needed for the story. It takes place in Italy near the sea.
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“Run For your Life” is a short animation in development, in which we share the story of a family that ended up in a bonding relationship between mother and daughter facing challenges together to survive.
Director: Gregory Kasunich
Designed and color some backgrounds for “Perfect Combo Productions” for the Project School Lunch Glammies.
Colorscript developed for the full length animated movie “Xico’s Journey” 2020, from Anima Studios in Mexico. Now streaming at Netflix.
Xico’s Jpurney” is a story about a girl, a dog and her best friend, willing to save a mountain from a gold-hungry corporation. But the key lies closer to home, with her sidekick pup, Xico.
I developed the colorscript for the full movie, as well I designed the colorscript of the sky to match the emotional beats of the story.
This is a personal project developing the idea os a fairy village. starting with:
What if the houses where Cotton flowers?
Or just regular flowers?
what if rocks where marshmallows?
How do the waterfalls will look like? or the beaches?
How will the spherical cotton houses will be inside? How would that work?
On this peaces I wanted to explore color ideas, different kind of light sotuations, as well of different escenarios for the Village.
In this project I acted as Animator Lead for the Sean Environments, as well as Visual Development artist. I Designed, painted and animated all the scenes for the Online Theatrical Play “PEN/MAN/SHIP”.
Which involved a mix-media digital animation with plaster, all Backgrounds where painted in photoshop animated in After Effects, Edited in Premier.
School Kids Yoga is a program for kids at school age developed by Kelly Wood focusing in adapted yoga excersices to promote the good and active learning. as it slogan says: Calm Breathing, Calm hearts!
I have helped developed several art pieces for this education project:
Animated introduction and Final credits for the Online video version of the School Kids Yoga program. In which I created and develop the characters, Backgrounds, and Animation.
Logo update.
Cover and Back cover art for the Book “ Calm Breathing, Calm Hearts” Social and Emotional Learning for School and Life.
Ants characters developed for John Hidley’s book, representing different situations.
3rd Year CalArts Short Film - 4:00 min
This is a musical 2D short film about Mia, who lost her rock and she goes in an adventure to find the Dust Bunny who has it.
Director/filmmaker: Ursula Echeverria
Original song/music : Pablo Leñero
Singer: Susana Pineda
Mia and The Lost Rock has participated in many Film Festivals around the world, winning as:
BEST ANIMATED CENTRAL AMERICAN SHORT (ICARO 2020),
BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT (FENACY 2019).
Official Selection: FiaFest Comsabana 2020, La Truca Film Festival 2021, Rome Prisma Film Awards 2020, Lift Off Global Network 2019, FicValdivia 2020
Finalist: MiMo Film Festival 2019
Honorable Mention: UAIFF 2023
Animated Short film
Burbujillo is a short and sweet film about the journey that all humans have when coming to life. This is a story of a boy coming into a world of older sisters having contrasting feelings about him., and how as a family we get to embrace those changes and nourish our hearts.
“Burbujillo” has have an amazing acceptance in film festivals around the world, having won untill now more than 15 awards as “Best Animation” and being selected officially in more than 30 film festivals, like:
Omaha Film Festival (23rd Edition)
Beverly Hills Film Festival (23rd Edition)
Deep in the Heart Film Festival (7th edition)
Around International Film Awards - Amsterdam (10th edition)
Watch the REVIEW from: Short Films Matter at www.shortfilmsmatter.com/burbujillo
Nick Jr CANTICOS, (Emmy nominated youtube videos) from ENCANTOS company, this brand focuses on creating kids' bilingual songs. I have collaborated as Visual Development artist and filmmaker - Visual Development lead depending on the project, Layout Design and Paint, Prop design, Color styling, Storyboarding, character clothing design, character and Background Production design for animation.