Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Legend Of Tembo – visual development

I spent 11 months in Port St. Lucie, FL working as a Visual Development Artist on this full feature animation -- The Legend Of Tembo -- a great project that should have made a beautiful epic movie. Unfortunately, Digital Domain's Tradition Studios in Florida went bankrupt and this production was closed.

What's left is one year of a priceless experience of working in a super talented, professional and family like team. Much love, Tembo Family!..

I know that everybody in the team misses Tembo a lot. This adorable kid elephant who got lost everything in his life and ended up being far-far away from home, dealing with a new and strange world; he grew up in a huge war-elephant, despite all circumstances stayed true to himself and his own roots, figured his life-path out and also found his way back home.









Tuesday, October 30, 2012

CD album design...

A friend of mine, who is a good poet and a song writer, asked me to work on a CD design for his brand new album "49 Novembers". Here's what I've done... (At the tray side some of the titles are missing, b.c. those songs are being recorded and their titles haven't been confirmed yet).













Tuesday, September 11, 2012

...I was showing my son some Photoshop brushes. This is what we ended up with...
 https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/380431_10151280578970817_1943224310_n.jpg

Friday, June 22, 2012

For Maria's 18th Birthday, my youngest daughter...

My youngest daughter -- Maria, she looks puzzled here by what Life has to offer. Well, what I was doing when I was 18 y.o.? I was taken to the Army... to serve my 2 obligatory years. After that, I went back to the Art institute... and I remember I had no f...n clue what I'm gonna be doing, who I'd become...
I totally understand you, Daughter, how it feels now. Looking back, I'm thinking... what a journey!...
Sweety, I believe in you! You are talented, you have a very cool personality. Your journey is going to be AWESOME!!!


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Love you,
Dad



Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Friday, November 18, 2011

In Florida!.. For good...

A major thing, I've moved to Port Saint Lucie, Florida

Working at Digital Domain's new full feature 

animation facility -- Tradition Studios;
doing Visual Development on The Legend Of Tembo
It's a very exciting and promising project!..

Here is an official teaser-poster


Friday, July 22, 2011

Life Drawing...

At the end of my latest life drawing class I asked my students to do a few fun sketches, exaggerating poses and pushing proportions to get character nailed.
This is what I did...

Friday, July 08, 2011

Saturday, May 28, 2011

For a cute friend of mine...

Well, this little, and very cute, lady runs her own Spartan Boot Camp.
So I thought this kind of outfit would be the right thing for her 
Birthday Party! Go Iza! Go!...
:D

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Life stuff...

Here are a couple of samples of what we were doing during our third Life Drawing workshop I did for our employees.



Monday, May 09, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Taekwondo kids...



Some of my latest sketches I did while my son and other kids were practicing Taekwondo...