Gracia Artigas

RESUME

SKILLS OVERVIEW

Working as a visual artist in various fields (development, illustration, animation, storyboard and graphic design) as a long term hired artist and also as a freelance has provided me with:

• A wide range of artistic styles and techniques
• Great flexibility to adapt to any request.
• A true awareness of the importance of meeting deadlines.
• Strongly developed teamwork skills.

• My sense of organisation, communication and motivation
• My ability to integrate and coordinate assets.

• The flexibility to work with or learn any technical process or required software
• A general overview and knowledge of working for a company of any kind.

 EXPERIENCE

• Concept, Production and Colour Artist: Locations, sets and props concept and visual development, providing final art including colour, shading studies and supporting documentation to be used by the 3D modelling dept. Character colour and shading studies. Colour keys to be used by the Lighting dept.
• Concept Art and Graphic Design for the film’s visual development. Graphic design of the final images used in the movie: billboards, newspapers, signposting, screenshots, character icons, etc... including colour paintings and lettering.
• Graphic Design for Marketing Department:  “ART OF PLANET 51” artbook style definition. Art & layout supervision. Cover design. Planet 51 Brand Style Guides and P51 product design. P51 poster design concepts.
  

• Lee Films, Miopia, TBWA: RENFE, "New times, new trains" (pop up book) commercial. Visual development, original design and all illustrations for 3D animated textures. Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad (Advertising Festival of Iberoamerica) FIAP 2009 Award: Best Art Direction, Creativity and Audiovisual Technology.
• Lee Films, YOUNG & RUBICAM: REPSOL YPF, "Let‘s invent the future" commercial. Visual development, original illustrations for the fake tattoos. Artist team coordination and supervising together with director Sergio “Sega” García. Final tattoo make-up assistance during shooting. Awarded by the Spanish Producers Association APCP 2009: Best Characterization
• Miopia, CUATRO TV: Corporate 2009 Spring/Summer Live action and 3D animation Promos. Visual development. Final frame art creating a surreal + cartoon world. Character design.
• Miopia, Diageo: BUCHANAN’s SCOTCH WHISKEY “Leave your mark” commercial for Mexico. Visual development and final art. Animation artist team coordination. Animation and “frame by frame” painting to give a hand painted (watercolour) look to the whole previously recorded live action film.
• Vida en Marte: 75th Anniversary ‘Festival de Teatro Clásico de Merida’ commercial. Traditional 2D animation and illustration.
• McCANN-ERICKSON: AENA (Spanish Airport Association). Storyboard  and concept drawings.
• Genlock/Newton21: Visual development, character design and classical 2D animation.