Project DiO // animation sample (WIP)

Project status: Active
Status: 66% Illustrations done, 30% Animation done

As I mentioned in the previous post, I started to animate the first part of the video, to try this 'bounce' effect which I had never attempted before. I liked the results, and so I started animating some more. But I've found myself without time to work on it, I hope by august I'll have free time to finally finish all the illustrations and get most of the animation done.

Project DiO, WIP 6/7/11 from Artrucho on Vimeo.

Project DIO // New Illustrations!

Project status: Active
Status: 66% Illustrations done

I collected a lot of illustrations over these last 11 months, and I even started with the animation (more about that on the following post). I still have a few that are not ready to be shown, but they'll be up soon enough. Patience! :)

*Update!*

Sorry for not updating for so long, I have put most projects on the side since starting the Visual Effects program at Seneca College but I have some new stuff related to Project DiO which I'll post after this...

This is a promotional poster I put together for the first anniversary of Ronnie James Dio's passing and to promote Project DiO; I had planned to have the video finished by that day - May 16th, but alas, time hasn't been on my side all year.

Project DIO // First Illustrations

Project status: Active
Status: 25% Illustrations done

The first finished illustrations are done, and they're ready to be animated! I've tried to do them in order so I can start putting the shots together (just still, no animation yet) and compose elements accordingly.

- Visual FX Reel 2010 -

Too bad there's no HD version.

Project: DIO // Story Reel

Project status: Active
Status: Story reel

The story reel is done to check on the timing of the animation sequences (you can't do that with a still storyboard), and to adjust accordingly. If you recognize the other characters in the video, then you know what this is going to be about :)
Next step is digital illustrations. Characters, backgrounds, props, everything. I better start soon.

Project: Webtilia // Character design

Project status: Awaiting further instructions
Stage: Character design / Storyboard

Some freelance work I'm doing right now, this might be the final version of Webtilia's new mascot. After this, I need to do a storyboard for the 3d short video he's gonna star in.

Project: Cupid // First sketches

Project status: Active
Stage: Character design

A schoolmate contacted me not long ago, after seeing one of my animations (I think, could be after seeing my drawings, who knows) talked me into helping his script for a shot animated film become a reality. I agreed, because his script was quite interesting, and these are the first drawings I did for the main character (obviously, his name is Cupid).

Project: Kay Dynamite // Character design

Project status:Awaiting further instructions
Stage: Character design

This was a project started by my friend Ricardo Maldonado, pro 3d modeler & post producer. He wanted a character he could model and animate in 3d, and he asked me to draw boxing champion Kina Malpartida in a way so that he could use it. So here it is. I still have to find out what he thought of it... is this the new heroine we have been waiting for?

Project: DIO // Character Designs

Project status: Active
Status: Storyboard

This were some of the first finished drawings I did for my 2D short film, an homage to a great musician and a true test to my abilities as a digital artist. More to come soon!

Project: Tenebrae Vigilans // mini-comic

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Mini-comic

EDIT: This is the revamped version of the only comic I wrote for my vigilante gothic-creatures. I basically took the Gor story and tweaked it a little to fit a mini-comic format (it was for another comic contest I was gonna enter). So who knows if this will be what Tenebrae Vigilans is about. Time will tell.
The basic story is, two drunken guys return home from a party where they drank heavily and met some easy ladies (both are married and have kids), and share their stories of the night. They walk by a cute girl, without knowing that she (and her friend) will be their judge, jury and executioner...

Project: Alice in Chains video // Chr Dsgn

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Character design / Storyboard

These are the (almost) final character designs for my Alice in Chains 2D music video; the four original members of the grunge group plus a new character (not new singer William Duvall... sorry).

Project: 'Stargazer' // Storyboard v.3.0

Project status: On hiatus

Stage: Animatic

This was the third storyboard that I completed for 'Stargazer', then being called 'The Astronomer' (this is also the name of a great cover of the original song). A quick 24-panel storyboard that showed what the short movie as well as the song, is about: A wizard that, being all-powerful and immortal, is alone and tries to create a tower high enough to reach the sun. But I added an extra layer of plot: He does it because he misses someone...
Here is that cover:

Project: Eddie Capac flag // Design & final product

Project status: Completed
Stage: final output

This is the flag I designed for the Iron Maiden concert here in Peru. You can see the process from sketch to final design, and from the printing press to the concert. Yeah!

Project: Tenebrae Vigilans // Additional Character sketches

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Mini-comic

These extra sketches were made for the mini-comic I'll be posting soon. You can see a change of style (the project doesn't have a definite style yet), a few more characters (friends, siblings?, maybe romantic interests)

Project: Doom of Gods // Comic storyboard

Project status: Deceased

Stage: Storyboard

This was done as a mini-comic's storyboard to participate in a national comic contest (which I finally didn't); after withdrawing from the comic I was supposed to do with Ken I thought this introduction to the comic would look great as a 6-page mini comic. Who know what might have happened if I had had time to participate?

Project: Alice in Chains video // 2D animation test

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Character design / Storyboard

This is a test I did mainly because I had always called myself an animator, but I didn't have a 2D animation to show. The video's description on YouTube explains a bit more about it, although I can say this was because I had plans to make a 2D music video for an Alice in Chains song, which I had to postpone because of other more pressing projects. Please check it out (only 11 seconds long) and let me know what you think.

Project: Tenebrae Vigilans // Character designs

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Mini-comic

A project I had in the back of my mind for too long, my obsession with gothic girls, their culture and their makeup :) I finally created two heroines for future uses, which I haven't decided yet... I only did a mini-comic storyboard, but I might use them for an animation (maybe an M rated one... don't ask.) or a bigger comic book. Or just to draw naughty pictures, who knows :D Hahaha

Project: Lord of the Rings comic // Storyboard (no dialogue)

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Storyboard

One of those projects you never expect to finish, this was an idea I had one afternoon to tell an untold story from the Last Alliance between Men and Elves, from the eyes of an Elf Warrior. I had a clear idea of what to draw, what I didn't have were the texts for all the dialogues. If you feel like helping me with this, please, do so. That's all it needs to get on its feet.

Project: Dark Twist // Character Designs

Project status: Deceased?

Stage: Script

A friend from a postproduction company decided to create a sci-fi 3D animated short, so I offered my help designing the characters for it, while some other friends helped with the ship designs, the backgrounds, 3d modeling, and so on. We were working at a steady pace when suddenly he stopped mentioning the project, and to tell you the truth, I never asked him what happened. Maybe it will revive one day, it's just a matter of waiting (and of asking him).