Tigobo's "Meet Ze Artists"

I'll be speaking at this event on 03 August, Friday. I will present some visual development process on Hotel Transylvania. Hope you could come.

"Meet Ze Artists" Event

I'll be speaking at the Tigobo Animation's MEET ZE ARTIST event at the Titmouse Cartoon studio in Hollywood on August 3rd. For more info, click here.

iPad/iPhone Paintings Exhibit Recap

On top are the iPad paintings I did for exhibit at the iPOP Culture Fest in Hong Kong two weeks ago. The theme was halloween. Then above is the Steve Jobs portrait I used for the press demo as tribute to him. The exhibit floor (below) was so cool. They played the stroke by stroke videos (from Brushes app) on five big LED screens and framed them to look like giant iPhones.

Had to visit HK Disneyland.

Beautiful view of Hong Kong skyline, shot from the Peak.

Then a visit in Metro Manila, Philippines...

All images ©Armand Serrano.

iPOP Culture Festival in Hong Kong

I'll be at the iPOP Culture Festival in Hong Kong on October 19-23. This fest is part of celebrating last week's opening of the two-level, 15000 sq. ft. all glass, most expensive Apple store in the world located at the IFC shopping mall in HK (complete with Steve Jobs' classic staircase inside). The organizers commissioned me to do 10 iPad paintings which they will exhibit during the festival. I will also do a two-day iPhone/iPad painting demo during the event.

Since it's Halloween season, the theme for the ipaintings they gave me is Hollywood horror classics. I gave my own, fun take on them and here's one of the ten.

They will also show the stroke by stroke quicktime videos of these ipaintings. All artworks are not retouched outside iPhone/iPad and completely done using Brushes and Photoshop Express apps. Will post more after the event.

Artwork ©Armand Serrano. 

Power Of Values Recap

(Top) Taken during the tonal design seminar at LAAFA. (Above) One of the many tonal designs I used at the seminar. 

All images ©Armand Serrano. 

The Power Of Values Seminar

I am doing a three hour seminar on tonal design with Photoshop demo titled The Power of Values at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art on August 18th, 7-10 pm. Click here to register.

All images ©Armand Serrano.

Comic-Con 2011 Recap

A quick iPad painting demo at the Los Angeles Academy Of Figurative Art booth using Brushes app.

Animation peeps (clockwise from top left): Bill Perkins; the one and only Alex Nino; Good man Mark McDonnell; Stephen Silver, myself, my daughter Ella, David Colman, and Nicolas Villareal. Others artists I saw: Robh Ruppel, Stef Kardos, Pascal Campion, Tuna Bora, Chris Deboda, Dzu Nguyen, and my cousin Charlie Deogracias.

Art Center Portfolio Review

At the Art Center College of Design South Campus in Pasadena, together with Marcelo Vignali, Kurt Albrecht, Chad Hellmuth and Ken Maruyama (not in photo), reviewing portfolios of the Entertainment Design grads. So humbled and inspired by the caliber of these students' artworks.

CTN Animation Expo 2010

Photos (Clockwise from left): During my talk on "The Power of Thumbnails"; Good ol' Mark McDonnell; Kim Mackey; Dan Daly; Mitch "Skelanimals" Bernal; Joe Gilland and Jay Schuh. 

Colleagues with me at the Sony booth: James Williams, Judy Thomason, Mike Kurinsky, Luc Desmarchelier and Ken Maruyama.  Other friends and colleagues I saw: Jill Culton, Robh Ruppel, David Colman, Craig Harris, Ed Ghertner, Peter Mohrle, Ronnie Del Carmen, Lee Gramling, Nicolas Villareal, Betsy Bauer, Tuna Bora, Christopher Denise, etc. Overwhelmed by so much talent present in one single event and reviewed close to a hundred portfolios in a couple of days. Very nostalgic weekend for me specially seeing my  ex-Disney Feature Animation Florida colleagues. Looking forward to next year.

Again, special thanks to Tina Price and her crew for making this year's animation expo a success. More power to CTN.