Justin Tirado - Animator

HipHop Speed Painting

2011-07-02T09:41:00.000+10:00

Happy 4th of July.

PaperBoy Development

2011-06-12T06:02:00.004+10:00

Finally posting some more work in process stuff. I definitely have more up my sleeve but I'm trying work out the kinks with VRay. More coming soon...

Quickie

2011-05-19T22:32:00.000+10:00

Photoshop. A couple hours. Coffee. Sex. Boom!

I'm still alive. It's still all good in the hood.

2011-05-02T17:26:00.004+10:00

Yankee Stadium Mural

2011-02-14T05:12:00.005+10:00

This is a mural I airbrushed about a 2 months ago for a client in his home. The entire wall is hand painted and took about 2 weeks. I anticipated that it would take 2 days but I still got the job done and he was extremely happy with the outcome. Hopefully, I'll get more jobs like this.

I can't find the process photos of how I started it, but when I do I'll post them ASAP.

Mock up in Photoshop.

This is to show how big it is from the ceiling to the floor.

Detail.

Neon Nights Club Logo

2011-02-14T04:32:00.003+10:00

Here's a design I did for a good friend of mine out in San Diego. He pretty much loved what I did. Hopefully when I take a vacation down there I could see it in action. I pretty much hand drew the letters until it looked right. Then I let photo shop works its magic.

Braille Battery S3 Magazine AD

2011-02-12T00:28:00.003+10:00

First Assignment I was given at Braille Battery. Haven't been working at the company for more than a week and already I got my hands all over the fun stuff.

Shout out to my main hombre Zac Lux with giving me some tid bits on the final draft.

You can find S3 website @ here.
Braille Battery website @ here.

FML

2011-01-27T17:27:00.002+10:00

Just came across this really good artist. Love her style.
sarahmensinga.blogspot.com

Looks like I'm going back to the drawing board. -_____-

Model Progress

2011-01-27T17:10:00.004+10:00

I kind of jumped the gun modeling my character out without making the correct adjustments on paper. Lesson to be learned here: never commit on one idea or design without experimenting because it might not look great in 3d. Therefore, I made the necessary adjustments in Maya to give him more character. The original proportions where too realistic and I wasn't happy with it. Fortunately, I'm heading in the right direction.

(Hate to admit) But at the moment he's looking like a mix between Johnny Bravo, Jimmy Neutron, and the Venture Brothers.

New Personal Animation Project

2011-01-23T14:41:00.004+10:00

This is going to be my New Years Resolution. More to come soon...

Character Design

2011-01-09T11:42:00.002+10:00

This is a character I'm going to be working on for the time being. I'm won't go into any details. Just know that the story is going to be dope. Stay Tuned...

Hiatus

2011-01-09T11:34:00.001+10:00

Self-Portrait I've down of myself and my close cousin experimenting with some new techniques.

Happy Holidays

2011-01-09T11:32:00.003+10:00

This was a quick sketch I sent out to everybody for the holidays. I'm experimenting with a few new techniques.

Concept Art

2011-01-09T11:27:00.002+10:00

Here's a quick paintover I did for my buddy Jon in my computer animation class. He had some difficulties coming up with a robot design that was both practical and had some attitude. This is what I sent him.

You can see some his work at: jongoehring.com

Quick Sketch

2010-11-24T16:02:00.003+10:00

I've been recently looking through all my old artwork from a couple years back and wanted to revitalize some old ideas. Here's just a quick sketch using a Bamboo Fun.

Hiatus

2010-11-12T17:29:00.002+10:00

Bought a new pen for my tablet. Now it's time to get back on the grind. Looking forward to drawing more. Here's just a quick sketch that I did today just to stretch my hand muscles since I'm a little rusty.

Ice Cream WIP

2010-06-17T01:50:00.001+10:00

ZBrush Fun

2010-06-16T00:48:00.003+10:00

After researching and noticing that a lot of CG companys are switching to digital sculpting to do their models - I've decided to get my hands on ZBrush and a couple Gnomon Workshop DvDs to keep up with the Jones. I don't necessarily look forward to taking up modeling as a career but I do enjoy the problem solving aspect of it and notice the importance of being able to bridge the gap between Art Direction and Animation.

So to jump right into the swing of things, my first model was a skull. It's just a work in progress and there are still some proportion issues but it only took a matter of hours to create.

Movie Night

2010-06-15T05:44:00.002+10:00

Here's my second piece for the Lil' Monsters Project.

Lastertag WIP

2010-06-12T05:41:00.006+10:00

Still trying to experiment with a look that compliments the texture of the cardboard.

"Lil' Monsters" Summer Project

2010-06-08T00:53:00.005+10:00

This is a new commission I'm going to be working on for the next two weeks that consists of 11 illustrations. The project is a marketing campaign for a summer program here at Ringling College that's targeted to high school students.

My proposal for a theme involved monsters interacting with each other in different scenarios. Here are some quick character designs I've made to get the look and personality of the monsters using only silhouette.

And here are my finalists...

Vinylmation Custom

2010-06-08T00:41:00.003+10:00

A little something I made for my girlfriend. Took some inspiration from Sylvia Ji. I wish I could've put more crazy details in but I'm not used to painting on something so little. But the end result is still pretty good for what it's worth.

Summer 01

2010-06-02T03:40:00.004+10:00

Doodling at work.

Life Study 01

2010-06-02T03:39:00.000+10:00

Letter Style 01

2010-06-02T03:34:00.005+10:00

Nude Study

2010-06-02T03:30:00.001+10:00

Traditional Animation | Final Character Assignments

2009-05-17T10:28:00.010+10:00

I've been behind closed doors working like a beast trying to keep up with the workload at school. My finals were intense, but I still kept my cool even though there wasn't a lot of animation desks to work on. Luckily, I had made my own light table out of some wood and $50 worth of supplies from home depot. I had done some "google" research and came across this useful blog.

Anyway, the my final animation assignments were to create and develop a animal character that was picked by the instructor. I was given a fox and this is what I came up with. Hopefully I'll come back around and tie down them down and maybe even add color. But for education sake, this was good enough for a A in the class so I'm good. Enjoy =)

Traditional Animation | First Projects

2009-02-10T13:37:00.032+10:00

What 's good Internets? This is my first post and I wanted to showcase some of the first projects we've done in my traditional to animation class. The projects were just basic bouncing balls and making a flour sack express emotion and eventually jump for a reason. I put everything together in Final Cut with some audio of myself beatboxing. Enjoy =)