Thursday, July 1, 2010

Making of a cyborg


I was drawn on a very young age to japanese animation, and was surprised with anime and how the drawings came alive on the tv screen with such dinamic movement.
One of my favorite anime is Ghost in the shell, not only because this is one of many films that pushed animation in a whole new direction. But because the theme was not about warriors gaining magic and defeating the enemy or about a mecha ( robot) that had a guy inside riding it, creating havoc all over the world and defeating giant lizards.
It was more about the question.. do you have a soul? how do you know it exists? if you can´t see it with you eyes how can yoou know it´s there?
So that blew my mind away and the conceptual art an scenematic view of GIDS (Ghost in the shell) has no words!
I became interested in the way they fused somethind so organic like the human body and machines and circuits and metal. Naturally I like to draw that clash of machine with living things. And let me tell you it is haaarrddd! not an easy piece and I think that I need to improve my coloring but you know what they say practice makes perfect. enjoy!