2013 Demo Reel Breakdown

Cynthia Angulo’s 2013 Demo Reel Breakdown

 

1. Character Take: (March 2013) Individual; Drew everything with paper and pencil, focused on cartoon emotional exaggeration, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
2. Animating Sand: (February 2013) Individual; Explored with sand as a medium for volume and shading, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
3. Animal Walk: (March 2013) Individual; Drew everything with paper and pencil, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
4. Secondary Action: (February 2013) Individual; Drew everything with paper and pencil, exploration with the movement of hair, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
5. Visual Music: (February 2013) Individual; Painted on glass, expression of music through abstract forms and shapes, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
6. Animating 3D: (April 2011) Individual; Created everything including rigging, modeling, lighting, texture mapping, camerawork, etc., done using Autodesk 3DS Studio Max
7. Flipbook: (January 2013) Individual; Drawn by hand with pencil on index cards, created a short story about a journey, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
8. Animating Objects: (February 2013) Individual; Took ordinary objects and gave them personality and emotion by placing them in a narrative, shot with Dragon Stop Motion
9. Explosion: (March 2013) Individual; Pencil and Paper, shot with Dragon Stop Motion

10. Pixelation Project: (March 2013) Group; I helped create the storyboard, provided props, aided in directing movement within each shot, acted as the drummer in the rock band, shot with Dragon Stop Motion

11. Leaf Falling: (January 2013) Individual; Pencil and Paper, exploring the swooping and curves of a falling leaf, shot with Dragon Stop Motion

2D Artwork

12. Motherhood: (2010) 8.5” x 11” – Pencil and Paper, focused on how mothers like to visualize their kids before they’re born

13. Cinema of Color: (2012) 11” x 9” – Prismacolor Colored Pencils, exploring drawing technique and how cinema romanticizes the past

14. Woman Gazing: (2012) 18” x 24” – Acrylic Paint, capturing the varieties of color in skin

15. Mars and Rhea Silvia in the Clouds: (2012) 30” x 21” – Acrylic Paint, inspired by Peter Paul Rubens and mythology

16. Male Model: (2012) 14” x 18” – Acrylic Paint, a study of the male body and use of color

17. Female Model: (2012) 18” x 24” – Acrylic Paint, a study of the female body and light

18. Atlantis: (2011) 16” x 20” – Acrylic Paint, Depicting Nostalgia for a fantastical past, viewer put in position of explorer

19. Pocket Items: (2011) 14” x 11” – Acrylic Paint, Still-Life Painting of objects that refer to different sorts of arts

Advertisement

Here is a sample of the various techniques that I have experimented with in animation.

Cold December Night

2012

– Part of a series of four drawings that I made using four different backgrounds and characters that I had drawn in previous projects and at the same time, tried to develop a narrative that the audience could construct

– tried to bring about memories of people’s favorite movies through the use of cinematic characters and conjure those feelings of familiarity

– at the same time, it was a chance for me to explore what I could do with technique, color, and movement

– Prismacolor Colored Pencils

– 11″ x 9″

– scanned and then composed in Photoshop

Battle of Ages

2012

– Prismacolor Colored Pencils

– 11″ x 9″

– Used the same characters I had made in previous projects but placed them in a different environment and tried to develop a narrative around them

– background made from reference photo

– scanned and then composed in Photoshop

Best Drama

2012

– Prismacolor Colored Pencils

– 11″ x 9″

– was deemed the most successful of the series I made by my classmates

– Used the same characters I had made in previous projects but placed in a different environment and tried to develop a narrative around them

–  Scanned and then composed in Photoshop

 

Early City

2012

– Prismacolor Colored Pencils

– 11″ x 9″

– Used the same characters that I made in my previous projects but placed them in a different environment and tried to create a sort of narrative around them

– Used an old photograph of the early 1930s as reference for the background

– scanned and then composed in Photoshop

Characters In Motion

2012

–  Prismacolor Colored Pencils

–  11″ x 9″

–  Used the drawings I made in the “Cinema Of Color” project and made slight changes in movement to make a sort of animation

–  scanned and then composed in photoshop

Cinema of Color

2012

– 11″ x 9″

– Prismacolor Colored Pencils

– used movie images as reference for these drawings

– wanted to explore technique

Dancing Suits

2012

– 9″ x 11″

– Graphite Pencils

– further exploration of the expression of dance and how clothes move along with the body

– based off of a dance video

– scanned and then composed in Photoshop

Celebrity

2012

– 24″ x 18″

– Graphite Pencils

– Repeated images of James Dean with no eyes symbolizing the emptiness within, the difficulty of reading celebrities as people, celebrities as public people, a built-up image for the public to consume

– inspired by Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe paintings and Jean Baudrillard’s idea of the simulacrum