PROJECTS
Here are personal and school projects worked on at Gobelins, including visual development and storyboards.
Concheperla | Miracle on 39th Street | Aida | Al Norte | Chapter Seven
Bouba & ZAZA
Producer and Writer for animated adaptation of the the book “Respect Water” from Bouba and Zaza book series for UNESCO, Michel Lafon Foundation, and LUNO Pictures.
Concheperla
Set in 1960s Trujillo, Peru, we follow the young candy-seller, Poligena, who dreams of becoming the national marinera dance champion. However, when she decides to pursue this dream, she’s confronted with her neurotic grandmother, who is obsessed with looking whiter, and a society that is not all that different. Like many Peruvians, Poligena has a mix of Spanish and Andean roots, and she’s caught in between worlds and her own family.
First pitched at Gobelins, the animation school in Paris, the animatic and film will be further developed as my final thesis project. In this scene, we see a young Poligena learning marinera dance steps until she is interrupted by her grandmother.
Study of marinera dancer in Trujillo.
Poligena sees her grandmother applying homemade whitening cream.
WIP Animatic of the Opening Sequence
Poligena sees the Marinera dance demonstration at the town square and now wants to enter the competition.
Study of Marinera dancers in Trujillo.
Street study of Trujillo.
Street study of Trujillo.
Peruvian D’onofrio Beach Cart.
Miracle on 39th street
AIDA
Animatic of opening sequence
Al Norte
Chapter Seven (2019 class exercise WIP)
Story about a woman filing for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy.
