Animation Work
Animal Stories
Series Pilot
Role: Story, Design, and Animation
Francis is a psychologist but not the regular one, she helps animals with different traumas and problems, who seek for a better life and mental health. Animals live and interact together with humans and monsters in this world, where fiction and reality merge. They grow and face challenges together, trying to cope with society expectations and live a happy life
A Series of Layout Designs, Early Background and Character Concepts
Beautifool – Sync Floyd Cee Lo Green
Music Video
Role: Story, Design and Animation
On a chaotic planet, consumed by capitalism, media and consumerism, CeeLo Green and Dggy are looking for their missing friend, Pppy. In the search, they must confront Vani, a malevolent social media influencer who enjoys the fame and the suffering of animals. A breakdance battle will decide everyone ́s luck
Short Film Version
Final Layout Designs
Character Design Guides
Very Early Sketches
General Streik – Cambodia Edition
Music Video
Role: Design, Animation
Animation portraying some hero musicians like Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, Pen Ran, and Baksey Cham Krong, who despite the Khmer Rouge regime and the Cambodia genocide – where any type of self-expression was forbidden – risked their lives by still making music
Initial sketches from left to right, until the most developed
The Amazing World of Gumball, The Principals – Cartoon Network
Video Game
Role: Clean Up Animation
Gumball is one of my favorite cartoons and I had the luck to do the cleanup animation for a video game. The animation was made by Sebastian Villareal
Screenshots from the clean-up process
Girls Of War – HIERROanimacion
Animated TV Series
Role: Rotoscope Animation and Art Direction
The Girls of the War is a documentary animated TV series. It shows the life stories of girls who were part of irregular army groups in Colombia and now are disengaged from the conflict. Each story inquires into worlds of memories, nightmares, and dreams
More about the project: https://www.hierro.tv/blank-1
Backgrounds
Old Folk Tales – HIERROanimacion
Animated TV Series
Role: Rotoscope Animation
Old Folks’ Tales is a transmedia project which is a collection of stories of older people about their childhood. Through an animated TV series and an online collaborative platform, kids from all over the world share their old folk tales. The project is centered on the poetic narration of stories
More about the project: https://www.hierro.tv/cuentos-de-viejos
Al Tiempo – Las Añéz
Music Video
Role: Rotoscope Animation
Las Añéz are a duo of twin sisters, Valentina y Juanita from Bogotá. They combine folklore and contemporary styles which create a unique musical experience. This collaboration was with the artist Kevin Johansen
Water is a human Right – Viva con Agua, Leona Berlin, Craig G, Sync Floyd
Music Video
Role: Story, Design, Animation
Viva con Agua is an organization engaged to bring drinkable water for everyone. They work together with artists and athletes from all around the world. I had the honor to collaborate with amazing musicians and create this video that combines footage, motion graphics, painting and animation
What is a Ph.D.? – AbeCol x Óscar Moreno
Animated Series
Role: Rotoscope Animation
This Mograph Animation was made for The Association of Colombian Scholars and seeks to explain what a Ph.D. consists of and what is the current situation with Doctoral programs in Colombia
The Association of Colombian Scholars (ABeCol) is an initiative of Colciencias scholars for doctoral studies in the United Kingdom. They promote research in science, technology, and innovation
The Biochemistry of Emotions
Animated Documentary
Role: Script, Design, Animation
This was super interesting and fun work to do. It was a short documentary series divided into two episodes, explaining how our feelings are formed in our body, due to different hormones and chemistry
Urban Place Apparel
Animated Commercial
Role: Design, Animation
Clothes store in my Hometown, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Informing customers about their payment conveniences
House Pop-Up Animation
MoGraph Excercise
Role: Design, Animation
The time when I started learning motion graphics, I followed a tutorial from a YouTube channel (forgot the name)
The Prettiest Man on Earth
Animated Shortfilm
Role: Story, Design, Animation
One of my very first animations. The topic is kind of red flaggy for me now but I’m glad I have changed and evolved as a person and also in my work
Cockroach Prices
Animated Very Short Shortfilm
Role: Design, Animation
When I used to study film back in Colombia, each semester we would celebrate “The Cockroach Prices”. Where we rewarded the worst student films of that semester. It was mostly a screening party full of laughs and jokes, trying not to take our work and ourselves too seriously
Tina Ovalle 