Character designs

Margarina Primavera

I was very excited about this project when it came to us, mainly because I got to revive a classical character that has been animated for TV commercials since the decade of the 70's! I was thrilled when the project came to the studio and I was in charge of animating the character after almost 10 years of it not going on the air on TV. This commercial is for Margarina Primavera, a butter brand here in Mexico famous for its character of a little girl pulling a red balloon and asking people to give her a bite of whatever they are eating. But as cute and innocent as the girl appears to be, she gives a tremendous bite!

In this last video, the clean-up of the character was made partially by me and the other part by my friend, ex-VFS student and co-founder of our company, Lila Martinez, check out her blog! http://lilacolor.blogspot.com/

It was also commended to me to re-design the character to a more modernized version of it, like the 2010 version, for which I made an unofficial, rough, character re-design.

 

Some art from "The Locket and the Sea"

Here are some samples of the art of my classically animated film. I put together some animation drawings in sequence from some of the scenes along with some of the backgrounds, which were painted traditionally using watercolour and later retouched digitally. I'd love to thank both my friends Shivas Thilak and Jobin Sebastian, also members of CA73 at Vancouver Film School, for their huge guidance and advice in watercolour painting, and I mean huge.

Here are some stills of the film too.