Rio and Angry Birds

Rio meets Angry Birds :)

I am excited about this because I am addicted to this game and I think it is the logical idea.

Rio, first 2 mins!!!

Rio first 2 mins

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Have fun

Rio from Blue Sky Studios

This is what Has kept me busy :)

RIO: Movie Trailer. Watch more top selected videos about: George Lopez, Carlos Saldanha

1. The Geneses of Thought

The Geneses of Thought

“The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.” James T. Kirk

Think, think, think, think, think, think.... As a polymath there is greater joy than when the neurons in my brain align to create the images we call thought. Now what surprises me is the dance that the brain creates (in simplistic terms) when the right and left side communicate and work together to create a harmonious melody of coherence.

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/know_your_brain.htm
http://braindance.com/bd.htm


For the past few months I have been working on the beginning stages of a project that involves the simplification of a city. I am not, in anyway, taking credit to making the designs of such simplification but I am rather in the forefront of the implementation of the technology and delivery of such exploration. This got me thinking on what makes a city, how it evolves, how it survives and how closely related it is to a living organism... like grass... like trees... like a forest. I put the though aside for a while, but then by chance I found myself in the mountains the past few weekends enjoying nature, thinking the same thing and then like the biggest reversal to me, since Darth Vader told Luke he was his Father, sounds, images, and theories came flashing through my head.

In the next few months I will be trying to make sense between the correlation of nature and a city from a psychological and artistic point of view in a series I am about to call "The Anatomy of a City". The similarities they share and how they may or may not differ. In a conversation I once had with a friend I said "I look at nature to see GOD" and without skipping a beat she responded "I look at the city."


The current outline is as follows.

The Anatomy of a City

1. The Geneses of Thought
*Nature
*The Big Idea

2. Emergence
*Radio Lab
*Nature and Growth Patterns
*The Power of a Group

3. Simplicity in the Complex
*Math
*Visualization
*Uncanny Calley (Dr. Masashiro Mari)


4. Nature vs. Nurture
*Industrialization
*Economic dynamics
*Bridge to understanding Proverty

Don't worry this will all make sense soon.

Draw

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." --John W. Gardner

I am not sure why I have always correlated art with philosophy. Perhaps because art like jazz, at its best, is the soul trying to communicate to the world what it wants to say.

Now, how we sometimes fail, is trying to correlate that which we think our soul is saying in a language that the general populous can understand.

When we draw, we do not draw what we see, we draw what we think we see. This is an interesting though to have but I did not say it first, how wise is Mr. Vilppu :)

Now after the philosophy of drawing here are line drawings from my digital sketchbook. I will take my camera to work and try to capture sketches from my pad. I think Pencil and paper make for nicer drawings.

2 mins

2 mins

2 mins

At the airport.

Carry a notebook not a computer.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

It has been a while again.

It seem I always start any post with that :)

Again I been busy and have no real art to show and I am only here to encourage you to go see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. I guess I am also late with that, since the movie has been in theaters for about 3 weeks. I was Lucky enough to have been part of the Assembly department, which does sets.

We take the empty environment after an artist from the design department designs the set and make it look as close as we can to the drawings they provide.

There is a lot of give and take from the design to the actual final look, due to the spacial relation on 3D. It is a fun place to be and the people I work with are amazing.

Here is a photoshopped example I took from the trailer.

I was also lucky enough to do some minor efxs for the movie. My bosses are amazing and teh Fxs department was kind enought to let me try. Thanks to everyone of them.

Movie official site

http://www.iceagemovie.com/

Here is the preview.

Also if you like games try Tetris Acorn drop.

http://www.tetrisfriends.com/data/iceage/ia3_acorndrop.html

It is fun and addictive.

Evolve

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
-Benjamin Franklin -

It is hard to summarize the last 5 months of absence without tuning to the profound, I been working a lot in the movie we are currently wrapping up and you would be amazed as to what a man can do when he is pushed.

It is also very hard to not consider how much a man has to travel, how little he knows and how fortunate he is. So why am I speaking in code? Becasue all things said we are only as good as the road we have paved and the one we pave in front of us. Art has become a medium of perceptual learning which lead me to the next thing. I am now mostly drawing on a table PC, which is kinda cool and takes drawing to the next geek level but in many ways miss the tactility of paper and pen.

Here are some drawings from around my life.

We had a bird for figure drawing :)

Waiting for the train

More waiting.

On the Train.

No words

The Sanguine

Plato once wrote or THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS, Sanguine being the extrovert, talker and optimist.
I am not sure when it happened or how I evolved to be that, but deep inside, in the darkness of my soul, I still feel like the perfect melancholy, the introvert, the thinker, the pessimist :)

Anyway the reason I am talking about Plato this week is an array of reasons some that have to do with character development and story, so he is fresh in my mind but also because I been a very reflective mood thanks to a book am reading, 1491, it is about the way America use to be before it was "discovered" by Columbus.

Another reason is because I found myself doing cartoon of friends and I started thinking how my character always leads me to accept tasks that others would not , not complaining just examining.

Here are some sketches :)

me

Giggles (a friend who is studying chemistry)

Ryan a friend of a friend.

I am not sure I captured his essence I might draw him again.

Thanks for listening Mr. Void that is the internet.

The Rock

I was at church and when I closed my eyes for one of those pray, mediation or reflection times and I saw this image. What you don't day dream at church ? Alright throw the first stone.

I am not sure if I like my rendering as always I tend to like sketches better.


After thinking about what it meant I started thinking that the robot was me an the rock was all the problems and stress I carry. perhaps it meant nothing but I drew.

Big Idea

"No one goes to Hollywood with the intention of making a bad movie."
Harvey Harrison, a professor in my college, once told the class.

Hollywood wants to make marketable films and they want them to be big, hence the Big Idea concepts were developed. These are stories that can be summarized in a sentence but are massive in scope. My favorite, what if a gun had a heart? Iron Giant.

All this past week I attended a series of lectures that described the concept of the big idea and it got me thinking, what if our ideas where small and we just nurtured them to grow? Brad Bird once said that it is hard to sale a film in Hollywood because most execs evaluate concepts with charts and focus groups, because they want to be safe in their investment, but that honest stories where usually small in concept and huge in heart. Like Ratatouille is about a mouse that Cooks (He said something a long those lines, not the exact quote)

This was inspired by that concept, he is trying to catch the big idea but instead caught a small one, should he let it go or nourish it for growth?

Just a thought.

It has been a long week and it is only Tuesday!!!

Beating the clock, that is all we do sometimes.
I am now working on the next movie and although it is wicked cool, we find ourselves trying to meet deadlines and working over drive only to realize that the fun, the reason we make movies or work on them, has dimmed down. But I guess that happens with all work, and then you sleep a little, wake up refreshed and realize that you are one of the lucky ones that gets to use magic and get payed for it.

So why am I rambling, perhaps because I am tired or perhaps because even though I left work late almost at midnight I still came home and turn on my computer.

In that note I was away this weekend. No responsibilities just me and the road (hypothetically speaking) Here are some sketches from my little adventure in DC.


Sketches around DC

Sketches from museums.

Again thanks for listening oh vast void that is the internet :)

Rain, Lightning and Thunder.

Soccer in the rain

Our company has a soccer team and this week we played against IBM. Not only was this my first game with the team, due to my schedule, but we had to play it in the rain, which was so awesome. Every so often the skies would fire flashes and cheer us on with thunder, too bad I never got to see the pictures :). Can't wait till the next game.

Soccer Rules.

Weird Month

Just the way I been feeling lately

Life is Silly.

This post has no images due to the fact that I am writing from my laptop, which I have reformatted recently. With that, I thought I would write the highlight of my weekend, simply because I can't fall a sleep.

I been taking classes in the city to enrich the soul and the mind, and also to move forward on the five year plan. I am starting year number 2, in case you were wondering.

At the moment, I am taking screen writing which I love because deep down in my heart I think I am a writer. Never underestimate the power of denial :). Last Saturday was my first peer review. Gotham, the school I am attending, has this thing they call boothing , which consist of everyone in the class giving you input of your work, as you sit quite listening not being able to respond!!!

"I did not like it" was the first thing the first person said about my work.
"Start with something positive" asked the teacher.
"I have nothing positive to say" was the reply. "I thought it was awful". Ok, the person may or may not have said the awful part, but that is what I heard and in the the best interest of a better story I will say that he/she said it was awful.

Wow, I seriously suck, I thought to myself.

Nevertheless, everyone else liked it. I heard things like "I could totally see this in the theaters", "I was hooked from page One", "Very cinematic".

Of course, there where a few minor things that could have been edited and some format errors but the teacher loved it. So... take that person sitting on seat number 1. Someday when this gets made, I am going to say that you thought it was awful and laugh.

Haha

Life is silly.

Figure Drawing

More figure drawing from the workshop.

2 mins

5, 10 and 20 min

I am not sure what it was, but at 20 I think I lost focus.
Thanks for visiting again.

Drawing Lecture

Today we had a drawing lecture by Willie Real
at BSS figure drawing.

http://williereal.blogspot.com/
http://www.williereal.com/
He is an awesome designer.

He are some sketches, they look nothing like him, but alas.

Also added some old watercolors.

Thanks

Busy

Horton has been out for a almost a month, and I have been supper
busy on the next movie, hint it is the trailer at the beginning of Horton.
It is sad to say that other than figure drawing I have not done much art.
I will attribute that to school and work.

Anyway I was cleaning the blog from a project, so I decided to put an
old illustration from the holidays.

Hope all is well.

LOVE

BSS Challenge

Remember when girls where icky?

Happy V Day

Traveling

I can honestly say i don't enjoy traveling.

I mean the part in the middle to and from the destination.
Going from coast to cast is exhausting and makes my ears hurt :)
Here are some sketches from JFK and LAX.

JFK


LAX


LAX


That is it for today.