Alley Girl

Haven't updated in a while. Which only means there will be an explosion of several arts coming soon. Here's a girl sitting in an alley.

Animation Demo Reel 2013

Animation Demo Reel 2013 from Adrian Navarro on Vimeo.

Corporate-ish Animations

The last few animations I've done have been for more "corporate" style clients. I was commissioned by M+W Group to create this animation which would help in proposing their newly designed Nivea facility in Guanajuato, Mexico. All 3D renderings were created by M+W Group. I created all the motion graphics, transitions, and typography to bring it all together.



The next few animations I made to be shown at a tradeshow booth which helps promote the client's laboratory.

iphone 5 concept

just made this in photoshop. Didn’t change too much. I always thought they should make the iphone look more like the current imacs. Just aluminum and glass. I also really like the green led lights on the side of macbooks which show much battery you have.

Victorian actress Animation

I was commissioned to create a 10-second animation of a victorian woman twirling onto stage, aging over time. This is the "pencil-test" I've worked on so far. Just checking to see if the movement is working. I'll be adding twice as many drawings to smooth it out as well as coloring and detailing the drawings.



Will update soon with the final piece so keep your eyes open.

Edit: Here is the finished animation, looped 3 or 4 times. Look closely and you'll notice her hair and face slowly changing. Fullscreen it please.

2011 side-work

It's the last day of 2011 and I felt like sharing some of the side-work I did over the past year. For one reason or another I chose to not put this stuff up here. Maybe because I felt it didn't represent the style of work I'd like to be known for. But I suppose it's better to show off than to be forever hidden in a dusty computer folder only for myself.

My gf asked me to come up with some designs for her work at a spinal-cord injury rehabilitation center

This is a poster I illustrated & designed for the short film "Chainsaw found Jesus" which was screened at SXSW. We were going for the "Chick"-style(you know those small religious comics that are mysteriously spread across the country in stores & windshield wipers)

...a sign that I drew with chalk for my brother-in-law's beer-tasting back in September

...an illlustration I made for my friend Jessica's blog

...clip from a short film I helped out with. The professor is explaining how everything in the universe is connected. made in photoshop and after effects


Lastly, here's an opening title sequence for a series of webisodes from a marketing research company. If it were up to me I would've removed that logo on the bottom right..just sayin.

Adult-Swim Animation

I've recently been working with fellow animator Matt Darnall and Chicago painter Homeless Cop to create a pilot-episode for Adult Swim called Homeless Cop. Check out this video for a brief explanation of what's going on so far.

And some more life-drawingness of course:

 

Stop-Motion Exercises

an old collection of stop-motion animation exercises from school

music by Tristeza

Skateboard Animation

Here's an animation I just finished recently: Crackhead getting hit over the head by a skater. It's part of a skate video for Vice magazine online, produced by HYSTK in Chicago. The video was shot in Argentina, and this crackhead scene actually happened but the videographers didn't get a chance to film it in time, so they commissioned me to animate it for them. I'll post a link once Vice puts the final skate video up.

2009 Animation Demo

Day of the Dead Storyreel

This is a storyreel (animated storyboard) I made at school in 2008. It starts off with an older woman decorating a gravestone with ornaments & food. When she leaves, the relatives unearth themselves to see what gifts were left behind.

When I actually make this animation it'll look really different, and have completely different shots, camera angles, etc. This was mostly an exercise in simple blocking. I might even make it stop-motion animation with hand-made poseable puppets.

The song is by one of my mom's relatives in Mexico, and the lyrics don't really have anything to do with day of the dead, but I liked the mood and flow of it for this piece.

Jean Spot

A friend from school & I have been working everyday on this project together for about 4 weeks now. It's an animation to help advertise Lee Denim Day, which helps support breast cancer. It'll be done in less than a month so you should see it here shortly.

Here's some of the stuff we've done so far:

• Draw out designs for several paper cut-out puppets.
• Cut them out
• Paint them with watercolors
• Hinge each limb together with glue & paper
• Animate them under a camera slowly but surely (like stop-motion animation)
• Composite the character animation together with backgrounds on a a cpu

..we're about half-way done. Every step is tedious & intricate; these things are about 5 inches tall on average. Some, like a full body puppet, have as many as 16 limbs & 16 hinges. Check out these images. Everything is still in progress. Here's a sketch from the storyboard.



EDIT: Here it is for your viewing pleasure

The Beginning of Animation

...for me atleast. Yeah, these the very first animations I created. The first one is paperclips, a scarf, & misc items shot under a camera...

...and then here's the first pencil animation I did. It's actually a mixture of cut-out & hand-drawn animation.

June first

School is out forever. I'm just happy I won't have to write another paper ever again. Actually, I'm gonna write term papers for myself, and put them on a shelf, papers on my own terms.
Anyways here's an old animation from last year that I never got around to showing. It was my first attempt at using paper cut-out puppets to animate with.

More stuff soon to follow..

The Future of Music Production

this was my final project in my stop-motion animation class. The robot is made from an old guitar efffects-pedal, electrical wiring, & random hardware I found. I love him.