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).

Project: Gor // first sketches

Project status: On hiatus
Stage: Comic layouts

A long time ago, I started playing around with a character I created, a small red devil with genie pants. These are some of the first ideas and you can see how the character ended up looking like. His story is about a teenager turned vigilante of the night by a pact with a demon. (It came to me by listening to Judas Priest's 'The Sentinel'. Yeah.)
I have no idea what to do with him (and the story I wrote), maybe a comic (could be) an animation (not likely), but I'll get back to him someday. Meanwhile, here is Gor.



I was approached by a shirt company (can't remember who they were) to get one of my designs on a shirt. Of course, once I got the design ready for printing, I never heard from them again. If you ever see this on a shirt please let me know, mmkay?

Project: Doom of Gods // Character Design

Project status: Deceased

Stage: Storyboard

A fellow DeviantArt user approached me four years ago to help him with a script he had done for a comic book. It was based on the events that lead up to Ragnarök or the end of the world in the Norse mythology, and it was called Doom of the Gods. We started throwing ideas back and forth, but when he asked for a bigger commitment that I could not offer (due to current projects/work), I had to back out of the project. I don't know if he ever got the book done, or if he just moved on to bigger and better things, so here is what I did for that project.

Project: Stargazer // first sketches

Project status: On hiatus

Stage: Animatic

When I was working on a certain animated movie that never saw the light, I did a rough sketch -obviously influenced by Rainbow's song "Stargazer"- that depicted a wizard erecting a monumental stone tower that could almost reach the sun. It was crude, but it gave me the idea that would become my own animation project, [ Stargazer ].
A few months after that drawing, I started sketching out ideas for the main character, changing things from the original Wizard design for the movie. This are some of those sketches.
The video, for those who haven't heard the song before... warning; it has the power to change your life.