I love Walt.

"A mere re- dedication to creativity is all man needs to start the creative juices flowing and then suddenly there is the energy - to “pun it off”, energy that seems to feed upon itself, so that each moment becomes a fresh start, each experience a new event, and the vision is forward-looking with
anticipation and wonder--not backward looking, full of regrets for neglected opportunities of the
past, or negative influences that creep in and block our vision."
-walt stanchfield

My Art on a Car

A couple of months ago I did some new character illustrations for Taco Roco, a mexican restaurant here on the Central Coast in Cali. Just recently, Victor Gallardo(the marketing/promotions guy) designed a car label with my character illustration of Ricky Roco, their mascot, to sort of give their recent logo an upgrade.... I was so excited to see my little guy on the car! So if you're hanging around Santa Barbara County, look out for the TacoRocomobile!

VROOM!!

So I'm chugging away on my short film Vroom! A film I concieved and developed at CalArts.....Here are some progression stuff for a scene in the opening of the film. I'm excited to share this cause I'm excited to be working on this!

The original story sketch. Pastel.

Digital sketch, trying to duplicate the pastel effect.

The final layout with the final animation.

Color & Lighting Concepts......

Final Color keys...

Final Frame. This is 99% close to what the final shot will look like.


More to come!

RED INK

Yes, our country is seriously in debt. Triiiiillllllliiiioooons.

Chefy Chefs

This top piece right here is a concept for a short film idea called "Mother's Day."

Doodle Rama!

Had fun drawing this stuff. Discovered some new photoshop brushes along the way too!

NEW WEBSITE NOW UP!!!!!

I'm excited to announce(finally), that my fancy shmancy new website www.rickyanimation.com is now fully operational and is awaited to welcome the masses! It's a giant relief, honestly. I now have a presence on the web for my work.....and the website does all the work for me. Well besides me handing out cards and what not, I can fully trust my website will do all those things like: show my work, contact info, experience, etc, without me having to worry. SIIIIIghhh. The biggest relief is that it looks like the way I want to it too. The last website I have was such crap(sorry zoomshare, you served me well), and didn't give me alot of leeway with making it represent what my work is about. BigBlackBag.com really did for me. I have to pay a little more, but I'm satisfied. No it's not flashy Flash or html....but it works for me and hope it works for whomever visits it.

So I break the bottle of champagne againts the hull of the ship! (I think I'm more excited than most people will be lol, sorry, it was a lot of hours put into it).......

I'm 24 today, March 4.....what a better day to debut the new site, right?

Hope you guys like it! Chao!

RdLA

New Sketchbook!!

Yes, I made it. I've been making my own sketchbooks for like two or three years. It started because I was short on cash and had a bunch of paper lying around so I said, "Let's do this thing."(I didn't really say that.) Anyway I'm not gonna bore you with my crafting history. This little puppy here is my newest one, made out of a bunch of different paper textures: newsprint, manila envelopes, used animation paper, charcoal and pastel paper, you get it. It was inspired by Stephen Silver.
He taught at CalArts one year I was there and had the students make this kind of sketch book. I remember thinking how awesome that was, he's making them MAKE sketchbooks. Of course, he recommended them to get them bound at Kinko's and not by hand, like me. Yes, I'm cheap.
So I tried hole punching the pages, but I couldn't find a coil that was thick enough to bind it.....so I just punched holes in the pages and put a leather thread to tie it all together. Punching each hole for every individual page took a while, but not so much.
So here she is all done and dandy. I cut the words "animation" out of patterned paper.
I really liked how it turned out. It's ghetto, artsy, and eco-friendly.(No, I'm not an ardent environmentalist) But it does put all that paper I had laying around to good use! And there's tons more to make up more sketchbooks.