FERNANDO vs theFLATMATE

Ehi Guys! I did this scene with my buddy Fernando fightin' versus the flatmate, It's not done yet but I want to post this still :-)
THIS STUFF HAPPENS ALL THE TIME in my APT in PASADENA :-)

John Foster is Awesome!

Hello everyone!
I had a workshop with John Foster here at the CDA,
this guy ROCKS, he's not only supergood in his drawing but he's also a supergood person.
We went to eat together, with Frank, Kevin, Rad, my new Bro. Fernando, Dan, Sherwin,Steven. I'm feeling so positive after going out with all of those amazing artists!
I'm learning a lot but I'm also realizing that I'm not weird.. I mean, I am.. but like every artist! Discover that I'm not the only one voicerecording himself while drawing to remember things and stuff like that.. We are weird come on. I'm like michael jackson' song, NOT ALONE!

By the way, During his class the light was down to watch better at the projector but he gave me so much inspiration that I had to draw something. So, sorry if the colors are kind of crazy, I was almost blind :-)

This is me and Jon Foster :-)



This is my charicature of him :-) Sorry Jon!



This is an omage from him after the second dinner, we ha da lot of fun, he is very cool!



and these are some of the stupid sketches I did during the lecture!

What if one day you meet Toby Shelton?

Hello Everyone!
I actually have to say thanks to Rad if this happened.

I grew up watching He-man, Pollon, Doraemon and all of this stuff. Japanese cartoons are probably 30% of my inspiration.
But in the 90's I remember coming back granny's home, after school eating bread and Nutella or Bread butter and Salt ( I love it) and watching Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Cheap an'Dale Rescue Rangers... And I was so happy to see those TvShows and probably that was when I started to learn how to draw!
I started drawing ducks everywhere actually, I remember that I even made "PaperFrank" that in english I could translate in "DuckFrank", it was a kind of Duck Superhero with antennas. I can't show this 'cause is somewhere in Italy but one day i'll make a feature of it (LOL, I'm joking).-

By the way, at that time, I don't know why, everytime I was watching Darkwing Duck and Ducktales I used to think: " OH MY GOSH I WANT TO DRAW SO BAD NOW". I said I don't know why? Now I'll say I DIDN'T Know why. The answer is:

TOBY SHELTON!
THE GUY WHO ACTUALLY DID THOSE CHARACTERS!

I met this awesome artist, he's workin' at dreamworks now, doing storyboards. I was so lucky to see his stuff and notice that every single drawing he did reminds my youth. He's so good, he's drawings are so clear and beautiful, I hope one day I'll be good like him! While he was talkin', showing us his AMAZING studies of Kung Fu Panda at the San Diego Zoo, and His storyboards of Shreck, Megamind, Kung fu panda, Tangled... I was like an happy dog waggin' his tail. I was overanimated, trying to stay calm and look professional. By the way, he went to Italy to the Disney Studio I'm working for and he started telling me all of the places that I know, like Stresa, lago maggiore bla bla bla... I'm exactly from there!!!!!!!!!! I love Toby Shelton and I love Rad Sechrist. I feel very onoured to have met those amazing artist that are SUPER friendly and very open mind.
Sorry if I wrote to much but I had to share to you guys ..

This is THE artist with me! Thank you Toby!



I did this sketch also, dedicated to my new superhero Toby :-)

At the Backstage

Ehi Guys!
Finally I did it!
I can't stand this song anymore actually.. Because I am in Pasadena I don't have all of my stuff with me so I had to use flash to make this animatic. Flash is not very good to export movies, that's why I had to stay awake one night to make it work as good as possible. Some frame is not there like the one when the director push the BGGuy's nose and there's some part where the rocky horror poster doesn't look very well. Trust me, after almost 50 videos this is the best version.. Expecially 'cause now I really have to go to work!
Thank you guys for watching it and sorry for the inconvenient, Maybe one day I'll do the final version in ToonBoom Armony (I want to learn this software)..
Buy guys and be positive!

CIAOOO!

here's some of the tons of drawings I did either on post it orin my sketchbook :-)



Here's the frames that my computer ate during the rendering :-)

Pirates Gesture Drawings!

Hi everyone!
I've just done 3 pages from a pirate model,
this guy was awesome and sometimes he works as a model for disney Dreamworks and wathever else!
I knew him from before 'cause he's from the Steven Silver's book and other art books.

here's him with me at the Concept Design Academy!



Here's some 30 Sec gestures drawing :-)

French Maid

Hello!
We had this wonderful model last monday wearing as a french maid and here's some sketches I did :-)

Calypso guy in Santa Monica.

I went to Santa Monica Last day, I sketched a bit and there was a guy playin' calypso, that carribbean music instrument that Sebastian (from the little Mermaid) play during his song "Under the Sea".-

I was thinkin' that maybe this guy can take part of a story.
A story where he hipnotizes with his music the clams of the Pacific Ocean, so the other fishes are angry with him.
I know it's a stupid idea but it can be a point to start :-)

here we go!

New Sketches :-) weeeuw!

Here's a little bit of sketches I did in starbucks in Pasadena (L.A.) :-)
The Waffle lady with the waffle face in the middle of the second page is my sister after a Day sunbatheing in Santa Monica with no cream in her face!

I'm posting this

Oh, I'm posting some sketches I did at the Farmer's Market in L.A.
I have other stuff but I am so busy, workin' at my Pavarotti storyboard. Is turning kind of good I can't wait to post the animatic guys!

Have a nice Sundayyy!

P.S. Tonight I'm going to eat Hamburger because it's Sunday Night = HamburgerNight!

Everyone is more than welcome to come with us!
We'll have a good guest this time: the great artist, Kevin Chen (and Rad is coming too)

The Surreal Brain drawn by Rad Sechrist!!!

Ehi Guys,
I can't believe it, this guy, Story Artist from Dreamworks, he worked on movies such as Megamind, Kung Fu Panda etc. so famous, so superCool his name Rad Sechrist , my friend, teacher I called him my tutor actually, brings me to Hollywood last Sat and made a comic about us and I am very mega AWESOME in that Story. Just go and ejoy him!

Just a bit :-)

Hello !
Just a quick Taste of what my story is gonnabe!

Hansel and Gretel Stuff

Hello everyone!
Today for my character Design class I did some Hansel and Gretel ruffed characters.
I did those almost 6 hours so please, accept that some pose or something look just weird :-)
I'll fix thoise problem when I'll chose my cast :-)
Now I have to rush 'cause I'm super late.- UHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Thanks to come here and watch my blog!

Fixed Pirates!

After Kevin Chen Feedbacks
I made some corrections on my old Pirates!

Crazy Stuff is goin' on :-)

So, for some reason I'm going to make a storyboard, it seems I have to.-
I'll let you know why later.. ;-)
But there's some boards I did to pitch the story
Soon I'll show you the work in progress ok?

Baci and Super thanks for watching!

Fra :-)

New Pirates!

Ehi Everyone!
Here's my new Pirates I did for the Kevin Chen -Character Design- Class.-
We had to make 4 Pirates from the inspiration of the ones we did last time.

As you can see I've put on the left upper side the first ruff I did of them.- It was on a post it, so as Kevin and every teacher told me, if it works small It'll work bigger!

Then I've just made that figures bigger to add details.

Here we go:

dialogue scene

Hi guys!

Here's an assignment I did at the concept design academy (storyboard Class with J. oliva)
I just used a track from grand Torino and I used Batman's characters.

The goal was to make a dialogue sequence with the cinematic theory.

Life Drawing!

Here's some of my life draw drawings I did at the 2 Kevin Chen Class :-)

Here we go!

Meet Tascapano Luigi

Here's my Character for the class I'm attending at the concept design academy :

this is a guy I know.-
I'll post more with him the next week!
For now.. Let's see who this guy is!

Pirates Heads from Pasadena

As I told you before,
while I'm doing my regoular job I'm also attending 5 classes at the Pasadena Concept Desgin Academy.
It is very hard because the level of every student is super High! I hope to be good enough to finish the school and to learn and become better.
Trust me guys, workin' and studyin' at the same time is hard, and now 'cause I have a lot of job to do, it's even harder than when I were in Vancouver attendin' a full time animation school.
But here in pasadena is gonnabe just for 3 months so... I mean. I hope I'll survive :-)

By the way.. Here the assignment we had to do for tonight' concept design class: Twenty pirates heads tryin' to find different shapes for the constructions.
I did this last night ,I am actually at starbucks right now uploading and downloading stuff and I didn't sleep, I'm super tireeed!
I decided to add some tone on those character even if they didn't ask for that 'cause I think it helps to read them better (and because I think it's also more elegant like that).-
OOOOOK! So, see ya and thanks for comin' here and see what's goin' on. Sorry if I wrote to much, I think my hands are just following the mood of the keyboard.
Ok
bye bye!
I'm going to sleep now. CIAO



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My Sketchbook TOUR shown in USA!!

Ciao Everyone!
I'm so onored to take part in this project from the art-house of Brooklyn!

I actually can't go now 'COz I'm very in Pasadena but, if someone can go wow, thank you very much!!!!






So here the 2011 tour DATES:

Feb 19-27, Brookly NY, Brooklyn Art Library

March 12, Austin TX, Austin Museum of Art

March 30 - April 2, Portland ME, Space Gallery

April 8-9, Atlanta GA, The Granite Room

April 11-30, Washington DC, Tranformer Gallery

June 10-12, Seattle WA, Form/Space Ateller

June 18, San Francisco CA, 111 Minna Gallery

July 14-17 Chicago IL, Hyde Park Arts Center

July 29-31 Winter Park FL, Full Sall University