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Dan Arturo Martinez
Animator, 3D Modeler, Layout Artist, Editor, Illustrator, & Tech Specialist
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Bio
Nonno's Garden
Sergio, a friend of mine from work, has lost someone closest to him in his family.
So I was called up to provide some drawings of Vegetables and Garden Tools as a way to dedicate the garden to his family member.
Or as he called his family member: NONNO.
Hench the title of the Sign.
After weeks of designing assets, here's the end result.
While I do have photos of the ribbon cutting, I can't share them here so instead, I present you the signage to said Garden.
Software Used:
Computer: Maverick Falcon 7900RT
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 4.4 GHZ
GPU: GIGABYTE EAGLE RTX 4080 16GB
TABLET: WACOM ONE Creative Pen Display
OS: Windows 11 Pro
Assets:
Drawings done on Paper based on Images I found on Google.
Drawings were then scanned into computer using my
Canon Inkjet Printer's Scanner.
Final Composite:
Adobe Photoshop 2024
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
The Best of Marylandia Blu-Ray
Don't get your hopes up because this is not an actual Blu-ray set. This fake box art was just part of an assignment made during Photoshop class back in College.
The assets were made in Colors 3D in my Nintendo 3DS, then exported into my computer using Adobe Photoshop, then I found some logos for sound, region, barcodes, companies, etc.
All to make it look as authentic as a real Blu-Ray box art. And yes, I even found a Blu-Ray case template go merge all my pieces together.
Software Used:
Computer: Lasalle College iMac
CPU: Intel Core i7 (Kaby Lake)
GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 580
OS: Mac OS Mojave
Assets:
Colors 3D for Nintendo 3DS
Logos found on Google Images
Final Composite:
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
The Thing 40th Anniversary Poster
I almost forgot that I had these but I do.
This was one of the last assignments during Concept and Illustration class in June 2020.
The assignment was to create a movie poster that's NEO-DECOR.
Or as I like to call it: SAUL BASS style.
The film I chose was THE THING.
However, the posters were made in 2020 because at the time, I was anticipating the 40th anniversary of the film in 2022.
Well 2022 has passed and no event screening happened. Oh Well.
Here I have 2 versions of the poster.
One is the master image which you see here by default while the other is the same image but with manipulation so it looks aged and has fold creases like an older poster would look like and a higher contracts of colors.
My personal favorite is the one with the higher contrast of blue and fabric creases.
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
Software: Adobe Photoshop 2020
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
5 Styles Drawings
This was an assignment made for my Illustration Class. The Assignment was to draw myself in five different art styles.
The first was Simpsons Style
(More like Futurama Style.)
Second was Samurai Jack Style
Third was Semi-Realism like Marvel comics
Fourth was Overwatch Style
and last was any style.
I chose Akira Toriyama... or more like
DRAGON BALL Z.
(R.I.P Toriyama-San. You've earned your rest.)
Concepts drawn on Paper
Digital versions made on:
Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Dan's been photoshopped into Surrey Central Mall with Star Wars Characters! OMG!!!
Yes, That's me photoshopped over Mark Hamill's face at Surrey Central Mall with a ton of characters from Star Wars A New Hope.
(My personal favorite is The Empire Strikes Back)
What's the context?
This was actually my final project in my digital imaging class way back in the Winter 2020 Semester before the pandemic.
The idea was to take an existing photo and layer your face on said photo and manipulate it so it blends seamlessly.
I chose Star Wars because why not, I'm a fan of the franchise.
Apologies for the low resolution photo. I lost the high res master.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Computer: Lasalle College iMac
CPU: Intel Core i7(Kaby Lake)
GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 580
OS: Mac OS Mojave
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Edward Hopper's Chop Suey
Recreation.
This assignment wasn't for my illustrations class but rather for my Color Theory class. I was tasked with recreating Edward Hopper's Chop Suey painting.
The resemblance to the original painting is rather uncanny.
Add Bonus: I actually printed this out using my Canon TR4527 Inkjet printer...
Oh to think how much color ink was wasted
And for those of you who are asking,
NO I DID NOT USE AI TOOLS.
THIS WAS PAINTED ENTIRELY BY HAND ON A WACOM INTUOS TABLET!.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Anatidaephobia:
The fear that somehow, somewhere, a duck is watching you
Based on the Illustration class assignment:
Phobias.
I decided to make fun of a very funny comic panel from THE FAR SIDE and that was taking my one of my characters and putting them in a plane and getting the crap scared out of him by a duck who's perched himself on a wing.
(How did he manage to dodge those Turbines?)
The image may be based on a Gary Larson comic but the duck on the plane thing was actually inspired by an image I found on Google so I've decided to reference that as well.
Concept Drawn on Paper
Digital version made on:
Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
The Many Compositions of:
Miso the Feline
I love my cat Miso. I don't know why but anytime she's around, I just wanted to capture her essence in artwork and she's quite the catch indeed.
Here's a collage of Art Featuring Miso in a collection of art styles and color combinations.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Nibiru Enterprise Magazine: Aliens worship Opera
This is actually funny... at least according to my Concept and Illustration class instructor in College.
The assignment was to make an illustration of a funny magazine article and I chose
"Aliens worship Oprah Winfrey".
This actually was a blast from the past.
On a side note, Niburu is a reference to a planet in Star Trek and to a conspiracy theory that scared the bejesus out of me in 2017.
Concept Drawn on Paper
Digital version made on:Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Nadia Film Trilogy Posters
These posters are fake but that's the beauty part of my Photoshop class.
This was an assignment where I had to create a fake movie poster.
I chose to create a fake movie poster based on a classic 90's anime series called
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
(Original japanese Title: Fushigi no umi no Nadia)
But not just that, I always imagined what a film trilogy adaptation would be like in animation.
Why a trilogy? I was inspired by the
REBUILD OF EVANGELION tetralogy that was still in production by this point so that's where the inspiration came from.
Even though these posters are fake, I'm always available for directing such a thing if a trilogy is successfully pitched but If that happens, I demand full collaboration with the Japanese in order to make this happen.
After that first poster, I made a second poster during my spare time.
Unfortunately, I never got around to making a third poster.
Oh I forgot to mention, the posters reference the mid to late 1990s as that's how I imagined these posters turned out.
Assets ripped from Promo Material
Edited on:
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Adobe Photoshop CS 6
Computers: Lasalle College iMac
Mid-2009 MacBook Pro
CPU: Lasalle College iMac: Intel Core i7(Kaby Lake)
MacBook Pro: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.53 GHZ
GPU: Lasalle College iMac: AMD Radeon Pro 580
MacBook Pro: Nvidia GeForce 9400M
OS: Lasalle College iMac: Mac OS Mojave
MacBook Pro: Mac OSX Mavericks
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Robot Designs
Here it is: The one and only Robotics design made for my Illustration class in College.
These are fictional robot designs and I've got to say, just designing a robot is not enough, You've got to have a backstory for these robots so wrote some up.
My personal favorite is Killbot BS-A113 because I'm a bit of a sadist when it comes to art but it's also because I made 3D Model of him in Autodesk Maya.
You can check him out on these links to either my Lighting or 3D Models pages.
On a side note: The info for the Sanitation Droid is now outdated. He originally ran on a Coffee Lake Intel i7 processor but he's since been upgraded to an
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D processor. However, I plan to swap out that Ryzen CPU for a Ryzen 9 8950x in April.
What I didn't mention is his GPU. He used to run off an NVIDIA GTX 1050ti but he's since been upgrade to an NVIDIA RTX 4090.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
THE THING (As a children's Storybook)
This was based off a concept made in my concept and Illustrations class where we had to take an R rated movie and turn it into a children's storybook.
I chose John Carpenter's THE THING because that film is a personal favorite of mine and I kind of prefer 1980's horror movies over the modern ones.
I've archived three pages since that was how many pages the assignment wanted.
Concepts drawn on Paper
Digital versions made on:
Adobe Photoshop 2020
Computer: MSI GP62M 7RDX Leopard Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 2GB
TABLET: Wacom Intuos Bluetooth Tablet
OS: Windows 10 Home
Page 03 Underground Bunker made in Autodesk Maya
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Tribute to Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali, a surrealist artist known for breaking the realms of reality in his paintings...
Anyhow, this art piece of mine came from my Digital Imaging Class
(Better known as photoshop class),
Where I had to meld things into a tribute to Salvador Dali.
This meant painting surreal things on my photoshop canvas and even messing with existing photos such as Bugs Bunny.
Yes, I added a cameo of Andy Warhol because why not?
Sadly, I lost the master PNG file for this as well as the PSD File so all I have is this photo taken from my iPhone 11 at that time.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Computer: Lasalle College iMac
CPU: Intel Core i7(Kaby Lake)
GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 580
OS: Mac OS Mojave
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
Assignment in my Digital Imaging class
(Better known as photoshop class).
This assignment was where I had to design a travel brochure for a particular location.
I had some assets in my Macbook Pro at that time so I compiled them, messed with some blur tools, created a brush for the SkyTrain prototypes in the sky, and even added a cute little duckling wondering what the fish is going on near the statue of liberty.
Keep in mind, This was made in 2020, my freshman year so I was a little uncreative and sort of went for an American location but I made sure to make the brochure CANADIAN as seen below.
Sadly, I lost the master PNG file for this as well as the PSD file so all I have to show for is this photo taken on my iPhone 11 at that time, not that it matters since these Travel posters were made on the same year as the Covid-19 pandemic...
NARF!!! (Pinky and the Brain 1995)
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Computer: Lasalle College iMac
CPU: Intel Core i7(Kaby Lake)
GPU: AMD Radeon Pro 580
OS: Mac OS Mojave
(No AI tools were ever used for this art piece.)
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