Piece Me Circus! (Video)

My 3 year old son likes to play with the iPhone/iPad simple-puzzle app I had the pleasure to illustrate. Piece Me Circus! An interactive collaboration with Fashion Buddha Studio from Portland.
Download the App HERE.

Piece Me Circus!

I'm so glad to post about a recent collaboration again with my friends of FashionBuddha from Portland, this time for a children educational puzzle app for the iPad and iPhone called Piece Me CIRCUS!

Go to the app website to find more about it www.PieceMePuzzles.com Or simply just download it from HERE.

Tzompantli

So, keeping up with the Day of the Dead season in Mexico, I was kindly invited to collaborate with Vertigo Galería on a project that compiles 20 artists to celebrate the traditions customizing 20 skulls to represent a contemporary Tzompantli. A Tzompantli is a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims. Each skull will be printed and mounted on large-scale wooden panels to cover the facade of Museo de las Culturas Populares in México City as an exterior exhibition from October 27th to the end of November.

This is my skull:

Slingshot Kite Boards

I really love to see my work in products and recently I collaborated with the brand Slingshot to create a few original designs for their great hand-made Kite Boards. Unfortunately nobody will get to use them because my designs didn't make it in the production, apparently the artwork doesn't fit with the brand's audience :-( But I really enjoyed making these.

The good news: I have something else to share with you!



By the way, this is really a cool Sport!

Cam & Maggie

I was commissioned by the creative folks of Fashion Buddha with base in Portland to create some characters for a video series featuring hand-crafted puppets Cam, Maggie, and their dog Blue. Here some images of the making of process.

Gelaskins VS Happy Rain

I'm so glad to announce that one of my recent pieces "Happy Rain" is now part of the great Gelaskin products family.
Check it out and let me know if you like it as much I do :-)
You can order it RIGHT HERE!

Sneaky Peek!

New collaborative project coming up...

The Gruffalo

GolpeAvisa, a great design & illustration studio with base in Mexico is conducting and art-related initiative every Friday to invite the Mexican Illustrators community to participate in a creative exercise, they have one guest who come up with a theme every week and people will collaborate creating a piece on that theme. I received an invitation last week and happened that I was looking who were nominated this year in the Oscars for best animated short and one of them is this short for the BBC based on 1999 Children's Book The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

So that was my theme and this is my piece:



Thanks to Cesar Moreno and Carlos Lerma for the invitation!

She & He

I was invited to collaborate with the mexican independent magazine PICNIC with a pair of spread illustrations. The entry and the exit as they called them for the issue entitled "Seducers". So I decided to draw my own interpretation of a "sexy" woman and a "sexy" man :) This time I tried to explore a bit more stylized treatment in my shapes and I liked it so far!

GAPABS - Be Pure

In a partnership between JWT, Möve and Bernstein & Andriulli from NY, 11 artists were selected to represent some sexual and comic situations. The art pieces were created on 2D, and 5 were chosen to be reinterpreted on 3D art by VetorZero.

In addition a line of T-Shirts with the slogan and the original art created for this Brazilian campaign.

Mexico | Imaginantes Series

So, continuing with the Mexico's Bicentennial commemorations here is an animation piece I helped out to illustrate. The piece is part of the project Imaginantes (Imaginarians), a cultural TV video segments produced by Televisa to tell short animated stories about influential people in Mexico's history, arts and literature. This particular segment is dedicated to Sergéi Eisenstein, a Russian filmmaker who produced some key projects for Mexico's film history during the first years of the 30's decade.

" Sergei Esenstein. Mexican times: The Cinema's Eye
The Russian filmmaker imagined from his childhood a placed called Mexico, this dream became an obsession. When finally got in and captured trough his camera the textures of this unknown land, his vision was so intense that filtered deeply in Mexican history imagination."



Here, some art assets I produced for the animated short:

JWT's GAPA/BS World Aids Day Safe Sex Campaign

"In order to raise awareness on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, the World Health Organization established World Aids Day in 1988. Observed on December 1st, it is a chance for organizations and individuals to “demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic.” According to 2008 data from the United Nations, approximately 33 million people around the world are living with HIV.

In Latin America, JWT worked with GAPA/BS (Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS da Baixada Santista) on a campaign with the message “Be pure. Safe sex is never wrong.” GAPA/BS is a philanthropic foundation that hopes the campaign will change the perception of purity – that to remain pure, all it takes is protection. Several artists volunteered their talent for the project, creating art for T-shirts, print media, and animation."

I'm very glad to be part of this selected group!!!
Produced by MÖVE

Kinect Adventures!

Okay, this might not be seen as the rest of my artwork but I have to admit I'm very proud with all the hard work I've been invested on this project. About 7 months ago I was kindly invited by someone in Xbox to come over to the Puget Sound area and collaborate in the production of one of the very first titles for the upcoming video-game technology known as Natal Project, today unveiled at E3 as KINECT. The new video-game system that is going to use your body to control the game and interface and I have to say is pretty cool and even magical the first time you play it!

This is the trailer debut of our game:


I'm not going to reveal yet what's my role on the production of this game, maybe some of you can perceive it there, maybe not.

Thanks to all the amazing and talented people who I work with on this great project and their incredible patience to deal with my very limited experience in the industry.

Rock Marí | Opening Credits

My illustrations all over Mexico City!!! :)
This is the opening credits animation for the Mexican feature movie Rock Marí. I was commissioned by the team of Maribel Martinez in Mexico to collaborate in the creation of diverse illustrations compelling the personality of this little musician girl (Rock Marí) who likes to travel and wants to be a rock-star. They had these aerial scenes of Mexico City and the idea was to populate all kind of "girly" illustrations giving life to the buildings during the initial credits. The work was done in a super short time, last minute job! At the end everything turned out good.

Thanks to Gabriela Badillo, Diego Huacuja and some other animators (I don't have all the credits) who made the great 2D/3D compositing, animation and motion tracking work on this piece.

Here are the illustrations I provided and the final animation!

Rock Marí | Opening Credits from Alberto Cerriteño on Vimeo.