Hello Animation

Painterly style

Ever been scared to take a drawing further? Thats me right now...

I've been trying to get a painterly style with photoshop, the big question is HOW? some brushes work, some don't. I guess I'll keep playing with it and see what I can do with this sketch....

Definitely nothing beats real paints...

By the way.. I love the super dynamic line of action of matadors!

Happy New Year!

Welcoming 2010 with some of my school work from 2009!

Hope everybody had a wonderful year. For me it was a though one, but I know that everything happens for a reason and God won't let me down. School was crazy, specially this last semester, but I learned tons of new things. Im really grateful for all the special people, family and friends that help and encourage me everyday of my life.

I'm excited about this new year, knowing that it will bring new challenges, new learning and new opportunities!

Wish everyone a very happy 2010 and thank you for being part of my life!

Last life drawing of the year, about 2 hours long. We are used to shorter poses so it's nice drawing longer ones once in a while. Definitely will do more of these ones. Perfect for anatomy and lighting studies!

And also my last Toon Boom.

Hope you like it, and as always, any feedback is really appreciated!! Thank you!

Short

I'm finally posting the short I worked on during the summer. It was for a contest in Mexico, encouraging people to recycle.

The animation was done in After Effects, unfortunately we didn't win the contest, but it was a great experience to actually work on the whole process of a short. It really helped me understand better how things work in the industry.

Really liked working on a short, definitely not my last one!

I apologize in advice that the video doesn't have subtitles, but I think the message is pretty clear :D So, no more words, here it is! Enjoy and comment!

Don Polo Malos Modos from Andrea Alcaraz on Vimeo.

Experimenting with pastels

So, I bought this box of pastels a while ago, but didnt really use them. This Sunday went to TSA for some Life Drawing and decided to take them with me and experiment a bit. To be honest, I had no idea of what I was doing. Pretty much, I was just testing and trying to figure out how to use them. I'm not 100% happy with the results, but I think it's a good start.

And a portrait we did in Life Drawing today. Again, trying to experiment more with pastels and colored paper. I want to go over this one and push it further, but I'm afraid I might put a little too much and make it worse. (Sorry for the quiality of the pic)

Any feedback would be really appreciated!

Toon Boom

Toon Boom is awesome!

First assignment with lip sync (kinda hard) and some acting.

Particulary love the male voice of my girly character, good stuff.

Teaser

It's been a while since my last post. I'm back to school again, I must say I'm really excited with this new semester, seems like its gonna be tons of fun!

I've been working on a project about recycling during the summer. Here's a test I did for one of the scenes. It was made using after effects.

More info about the project coming soon!