Tuesday, June 08, 2010

"Lilo"-cized Environment








Location designs I did for my friend Tony Bancroft on a project he worked on a few years ago. The task is to "Lilo"-cize (or add a Lilo & Stitch flavor on) the environment. So I grabbed my good old prismacolor pencil and vellum paper (and a touch of PS of course). There were two different location design styles. The first four illustrates the "real world" where shapes and silhouettes are more rounded and friendly. The last two personify the "fantasy" world where it's sharp, pointed and dangerous. It was fun. 

All images ©Armand Serrano.

59 comments:

  1. Amazing! I love that store interior.

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  2. INCREDIBLE . . . you're INCREDIBLE!

    Wow . . .

    MAC

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  3. Grade A Serranooooooooo.
    Goodness.

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  4. uuuuuooooooo----amacingggggg.....Really good backgrounds..

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  5. Armand,

    You amaze me. You make me thank God He gave you such talent.

    Paul

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  6. Oh, watch out, Armand smacks down another set of AMAZING backgrounds!!!!

    thanks for sharing dude!

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  8. Wow! Your background are really amazing i love all the enviorement

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  9. beautiful and inspiring work! :)

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  10. Mr. Serrano, you inspire me! WOW!

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  11. also looks like you added "open season" to the enviros as well. very nice, armand!

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  12. These are stunning, really inspiring work :D

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  13. Whoahohohwwwow! These are just amazing!!! I'm super inspired, thanks for posting:). On another note, I know you're a gladiator buff, so I was wondering if you've heard about the gladiator grave they have uncovered in England? Cool stuff.

    Hope all is well,

    -Hans

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  14. Amazing Armand,can' t stop watching and studying this artwork.Greetings from Bristol.

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  15. Ya I like these a lot! Great design, beautiful drawings. Thanks also for explaining the basic design philosophy. That is always helpful too!

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  16. lost for words!
    I looove this landscapes and the artwork you can generate just with pencils!!
    Awesome!
    thanks again for sharing
    :)

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  17. @all: Thanks for the comments everyone.

    @PFC: Thanks Paul for the humbling comment. Truly, apart from Him, I can do nothing.

    @Hans: Thanks, man. I checked on it and it's very interesting. There was a similar gladiator graveyard dug in Ephesus a few years back. History Channel investigated it and was able to make a movie about one gladiator in it. Maybe you can check it on iTunes. It's titled "True Gladiator". Cheers.

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  18. IMPRESIONANTES...!!!

    Thanks for sharing! it´s always a great pleasure to visit your blog.

    Bravo.

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  19. Wow!!! Such beautiful details!!!

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  20. AMAZING these are:)
    love the clarity of flow within these layouts:)
    SUPER WORK:)

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  21. oh,I impressed how you set up these details.

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  22. These are great Armand, the 'hut by the lake' shot is just phenomenal

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  23. Amazing works. I follow you.

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  24. Great draftsmanship , strong images !

    Cheers Armand .

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  25. Are awesome dude! , i like it a lot , especially lilo´s movie is my favourite!

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  26. I’ve enjoyed looking over your blog. I came across it through another blog I follow. I am now a follower of yours as well. Feel free to look over my blog and perhaps become a follower as well.

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  27. Armand, I was around Tony's office when these were coming in, but i never got a chance to tell you how awesome they are... As always, great job man. you give us "young guns" a benchmark to try to succeed and eventually surpass. Thank you for the inspiration buddy!!!

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  28. These are stunning, they kind of took any words I had right out of my mouth. Beautiful!

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  29. Absolutely amazing, congratulations !

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  30. wow!!! just wow! They are just amazing.

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  31. Thanks again for the comments everyone!

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  32. These are fantastic, your sense for values and composition is outstanding...

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  33. You are a pencil ninja... :O
    Just amazing work and detail, there's an immediate presence to the locations. Thanks for posting.

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  34. The store is my favourite with all those little details, so wonderful!

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  35. This is really nice work. I always appreciate the work like this. As it is quite difficult to make painting beautiful without using the colors.

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  36. Just stumbled on your blog and loving it so far. Keep up the great work, it inspires us all!

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  37. your artwork is faaaantastic! this leaves me speechless! amazing :)!

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  38. What an awesome works!!!
    Fantastic!!!
    You are a great inspiration! Thanks for posting!
    Best! :o)

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  39. wow,harttouchess work...u know who the artist my fev...? U

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  40. you are a luxury only Disney...or Sony,can pay. Congratulations.

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  41. Absolutely stunning job, armand!! I was always fascinated by pencil work.
    Amazing skills man Great ! each and every artwork is superb!
    thanks for the inspiration.

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  42. Marvellous! So nice shapes!!! Great Armand!

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  43. I keep coming back to look at this post, Armand. Just awesome and inspiring.

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  44. These drawings are beautiful . . . Geez!

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  45. excellent over excellent work....

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  46. It's always inspiring to see amazing artwork like this.

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