I am extremely excited to remind everyone that Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs is coming next week on July 1st!  I had the pleasure of working with the extremely talented crew over at Blue Sky Studios for almost 6 months.  It was grueling but I learned so much from everyone there.  Please head out next week and support the amazing crew for all our hard work!  Here is a poster for the movie in case you haven’t seen it yet.  Click it to head on over to the site:

Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Fan art sketch of Naruto

Anyone who hangs out with me enough, knows I am a Naruto fanatic.  It’s probably my favorite animated tv series of ALL time.  I could write for hours on why it’s incredible, but I won’t.  Anyway, this was a sketch that I started on the subway on my way home.  I brought it into a trial version of the new Sketchbook Pro 2010 and added to the sketch and restructured some stuff.  I also added some of the details that I couldn’t remember while on the train.   Feel free to leave me any comments about any feelings on the drawing.  I am going to post my progression on this piece, so stayed tooned for inks and coloring iterations. 

Peace!
Rick

I’m not sure if this is good or bad news.  There is definitely a ton of talented artist in Canada.  I hope they continue to maintain the same standard of excellence that the California studio continues to hold.  Apparently they will create all of the studios short films there.  Here is a link to the article:

“Pixar to open Vancouver studio”

I added some older sketches to my sketchbook page.  I will add some new sketches soon along with some more animation related work soon.

After wrapping up at Blue Sky, I was lucky enough to jump on a quick commercial over at 1st Ave Machine in NYC.  It was definitely a cool project to work on and I can’t wait to see the final product.  Now that I am on a small break from work, I am going to slowly update the website with some older material first.  I added 3 commercials that I worked on under the “Animation” Page.  Keep checking back for updates!

I am currently changing the complete look and feel of my site.   My old site was way to complicated to update and I decided to switch to a Word Press site after talking to fellow animator Richard Fournier.   This new format should make life easier to show new work so keep checking back to see the site evolve.  If you need to contact me please feel free to email me at rvicens@ricardovicens.com