Santiago Uceda illustrates and animates for Troy-Bilt

Santiago Uceda recently worked on this fun project for Troy-Bilt lawn equipment called "Think Spring - Tell Us How It's Done".

Santiago created all of the illustrations and animation for this interactive campaign which allows people to share stories of their own backyard projects.  Users upload personal photos and describe the projects in their own words, and it's all set against the animated backgrounds that Santiago created.

It's fun to see his work in motion, and you can go to the Troy-Bilt video gallery, and click  on any of the stories to check it out for yourself.

Here are some screenshots:

Santiago Uceda - Illustration & animation for Troy-Bilt "How It's Done"

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Santiago Uceda - 2013 illustration and animation reel

Santiago Uceda, our illustration and motion graphics extraordinaire, has just released his latest animation reel and we think it's pretty cool!  Love his style, whether still or moving.  What do you think?


Santiago Uceda - 2013 Illustration and Animation Reel from Jennifer Vaughn on Vimeo.

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Christophe Lopez-Huici claymation for Amazon Publishing

Christophe Lopez-Huici recently completed this fun claymation piece for Amazon Publishing.  The animation is for the promotion of a new book titled "Elimination Night", which is a roman à clef about the behind the scenes of American Idol.  Since the writer of the book chose to remain anonymous, Amazon decided to use the animation as a mock interview of the writer and a preview of the book.

The client gave Christophe a script and dialogues to work with, and from there he did a storyboard, characters, animation, and editing.  From start to finish, the project took him about two months to complete.

Here is the final animation, as well as photos of some of the characters, sets, and screenshots:

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night character heads

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night character

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night more character heads

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night screen shot

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night screen shot

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night screen shot

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night screen shot

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night characters

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Elimination Night set

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Santiago Uceda for Ted-Ed

Recently Santiago Uceda was asked to create an animation for TED-Ed , which is the education extension of TED and is made up of educational videos that are collaborations between talented educators and animators who are nominated through the TED-Ed platform.  It was a great honor for Santiago to be asked to participate in this project, and he and an educator collaborated to create this video that explains how we breathe.  Santiago did the illustrations and the animation, and here is the final video along with some screen shots.  Nice work, Santiago!


 

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

Santiago Uceda - Screen shot from "How Breathing Works"

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New illustrations by Livia Cives!

We're excited to share these 3 new illustrations that Livia Cives recently completed. Livia is from Rome, Italy, where she lives and works, and she has definitely been keeping herself busy creating new images this summer!

This first piece is titled "Holidays", and we love the vintage summery feel it has:

Livia Cives - Holidays

For "Layers", Livia was inspired to illustrate layers from an uncommon point of view:

Livia Cives - Layers

And this third piece, "Be Different", is based on the idea of that one fish who doesn't take the bait:

Livia Cives - Be Different

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New animation by Livia Cives for Bidimal.com

A wonderful new animation by artist Livia Cives for Bidimal.com, an Italian online auction website.

 

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Christophe Lopez-Huici: illustration and claymation

Jennifer Vaughn Artist Agency welcomes French-born, New York resident, Christophe Lopez-Huici to the group! With clients such as Google, Christie's, Pfizer, Atlantic Records, Bill Plympton, as well as a large range of smaller music labels and independent music magazines, Christophe brings yet another layer of style, skills, and personality to the team.

His illustration approach has a hint of the very traditional French 'bande dessinées' (cartoon), while retaining a clear unique personality and presence:

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Album design for the Barbacans

Christophe Lopez-Huici - B&W interior and architectural illustration

Christophe Lopez-Huici - Illustration for Christie's

Christophe Lopez-Huici - illustration

Some of his animation / claymation projects include a 7 minute-long animated sequence for the documentary Mamachas Del Ring. The movie has been screened in many festivals worldwide, including Slamdance and the Margaret Mead film festival in NY. His own animated short, Mondo Claymo has been in festivals all over the country and was shown at the Festival de Cannes's Short Film Corner in May 2011 --- here is a peek:




You can also check out Christophe's super-cool music magazine, Bananas Magazine, which he created collaboratively with 4 friends in late 2009 – it is now distributed in 12 countries!

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Santiago Uceda - 2 award winning animations!

Santiago Uceda and his team at Oregon State University won the gold in the CASE Awards for their TV spots - Santiago co-directed the spots, did all of the illustration and tackled the animation process with the help of his team.  CASE is the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and for those in academia it's the equivalent of what Communication Arts or the Print annual are for us creatives  :)

Congrats Santiago!!

Oregon State University, Healthy People


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