Inktober2016

A little selection of some of the most successful Inktobers from this 2016 year. Taking the awesome chance to explore ink pen and brushes, I took it and explored the style of some of my favorite ink character designers, Hans Ketchum and Searle and reinvented some of my favourite characters in their styles. An amazing exercise!!! :D

Storyboards

Hi guys! Recently I had the pleasure to work in two exciting projects with the talented guys at Kube Productions as a Storyboard Artist and Story Artist. You can see some of the work here:

Title: Off Track

Client: Advertisement pitch project

Services: Storyboard Artist, Story Artist

Company: Kube Productions

I teamed up  with Kube Productions to make this pitch for an insurance company. The idea was to take a little boy into and exiting adventure "off track" to get an ice cream before his parents notice it. This was in line with the company acttitude of "live an adventure and take the opportunities of life". 

Title: Aim Attitude Advertisement

Client: Aim Attitude

Services: Storyboard Artist, Story Artist

Company: Kube Productions 

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Aim Attitude, knocked at the door of Kube Productions (http://kubeproductions.co.uk/) to do it´s company advertisement. We teamed up to develop a very cinematic experience that would represent the company´s philosophy and work. This is the Storyboard I developed with Dave and Sam from Kube.  You can see some the final result and making of here: http://kubeproductions.co.uk/aim-altitude/

Post apocalyptic city matte painting progress

Hi there!!!! I would like to share the process of my last piece, a post apocalyptic city shot, trying to get more realistic, further from my usual super stylized way of designing and more VFX-ish and closer to the matte painting realm.

This has been a funny one, started as you can see with a tiny sketch in the corner of my notebook, you can even see the notebook horizontal lines. I saw some potential in the composition so I decided to take it further in a super rough tonal sketch until the value structure was working. Then start finessing and photobasing to bring the detail. I had a little bit of art directing from my friend Lorenzo Tosi, which made an awesome improvement and then to the final!!! Hope you guys like it!!! I have learnt tons! :D :D

The Name of the Wind: Tarbean

There are few better sources of inspiration than an amazing book not yet adapted into anything, a virgin field that make your imagination go wild! This is the case of the city of Tarbean, from the awesome books of "The Name of the Wind", dangerous and oppressing never ending city in which our hero tries to survive. So there it goes an illustration I have done for the book, I hope I have done it justice. 

"Tarbean was too big, actually it was bast, inmense. Seas of people, forests of buildings, roads wide as rivers. It smelled like coat and smoke and tar. If I had been in my right mind, I never would have gone there.

You can´t avoid getting lost or accosted in the tangles web of twisting streets and dead end alleys."

Patrick Rothfuss, the Name of the Wind.

Mobile Game Design: Backgrounds

Hi there! I want to share with you today some of the backgrounds I did for an indie RPG mobile game! Hope you like it! More to come!

Welcome to our world! :D :D :D

Enchanted Forest Level
A mystical forest with lush scenary and sparkling rivers where Fairys and such reside, which either would guide you into an spectacular secret place or eat you whole. All of natures beauty can be found here.

 Undead Dungeon Level
A Dull, Cramped and Cold dungeon with echo like rooms and corridors where you can hear strange noises and the rats moving between the walls.

Visual Development! Chinese landscape!

Hi there! Long busy months these ones! Today here it comes another piece, exploring visual development and playing with shapes, inspired by the wonderful China and the hanging monasteries of Datong which are a masterpiece of construction cleverness. Enjoy!!! :D

Israel Hands

"When I tourned around, there was Hands, already half-way towards me, with the dirk in his right hand."

 
"Wounded as he was, it was wonderful how fast he could move, his grizzled hair tumbling over his face, and his face itself as red as a red ensign with his haste and fury."

                                                                                     Jim Hawkings in Treasure Island.

60 minutes sketch after reading Treasure Island. Long live to Stevenson! :D