Nico Martinez, photographer.

A caricature for a birthday invitation. 

Spanish translation: " I´m too old for this!!"

More sketching

 

sketchbook update

More metro sketching

Metro Sketches

Some quick ones done at Valencia´s subway on my way to the academy.

Small 2d animation

I´ve done this for advertising a 2d animation course. Yes, I´m going to teach !!, for two weeks. Let´s see how it goes!.

New Demoreel!

Check out my new demoreel including stuff from Keytoon Animation, as well as the "Valiant" shots and "Happilly N´Ever After".

Hope you guys like it!!

Head Sketch

Gatito

 

My dad´s cat...

Mi Mamma!

Caricature of my mom!

Baggy Jeans

How fashionable!

Charcoal sketches

These are from 2004 , when I was working in "Valiant" we had life drawing sessions once a week . It was great , the teacher really pushed us to study the light and shade of what we had in front of us. I really enjoyed those times.

Motion sketches

These are some of the sketches I did yesterday at life drawing, I had better ones the other day but that day I forgot my camera to snap them.

It´s really interesting, the model moves creating a pattern that repeats for, I don´t know 5 minutes, and we try to capture the key moments forcing you to simplify line of action, silouethe etc.

Tommy the unstoppable

He´s not even really good at basketball , but he just goes on and on ...!!!

outdoors sketch

Manu Bover

A workmate at Keytoon, that likes to call himself... "the boss" .Sadly he´s going to live the studio and I´d like to desire him the best of lucks for the future and I really hope that he and the rest of the "bugwatch" guys come back !!

CHEERS MANU!! WE LOVE YOU!!

Life Drawing 2

Another charcoal sketch!, I didn´t post in weeks because I ´ve been real busy in the studio. I´m now animation supervisor for a 15 minute short film we are doing . We have been leaving work late everyday , really exhausting work, no social life, but now is getting better!

Hope to make it next week for another drawing session.

See ya!!

Back to Life Drawing!!

I found a great place in Valencia next to the studio where we can go to do life drawing sessions at a reasonable price!!. God , I forgot how much I love using charcoals!!

I asked to the girls in charge if we could maybe do the kind of things I used to do when I studied animation many moons ago. Quick poses , motion poses, thumbnailing. And then a longer pose to do a light/shadow study.

Feels good doing something that doesn´t force you to be in front of a monitor screen for a while.

Another silly sketch.

3deMotions interviews Keytoon

http://www.3demotions.com/keytoon01en.htm

There is a nice interview there, have a look!