Alberto Cerriteño is a Mexican illustrator & designer who now lives in Portland. His influences have helped him to develop a recognizable and unique style. Hints of traditional Mexican art influence his management of rich textures and decorative patterns. These make for an excellent contrast with the blending of desaturated colors and ink, sometimes featuring a vintage coffee finish.

Cerriteno completed the illustration work for the video above and is the opening credits animation for the Mexican feature movie, “Rock Marí”.

Stills & Graphics from the video…

Character Design

I really admire the characters that Alberto creates. The colors are piercing, texture is nicely placed, and subtle shading combines for a fun and inspirational design that has a hand made, organic feel.

This is just one of his army of characters. Be sure to visit the links below for more.

Extra Linkage:

Alberto Cerriteno

Blogspot

Behance

Etsy

Really interesting and fun video created to house senior citizens and inform people of the joining of multiple districts in Amsterdam. Here’s more information via PlusOne’s website:

via plusoneamsterdam.com:

Restructuring urbanized areas isn’t all about aesthetics. That is why we chose to put emphasis on the architects and especially it’s inhabitants and the surrounding of the buildings. To achieve this, we decided to combine live action video with 2D- and 3D-animation. Herewith we were able to complement reality with our interpretation of the most important factors of restructuring urbanized areas.

Extra Linkage:

Motionographer

Motionspire

Motionserved

I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on Rockstar’s latest installment of the Red Dead series. Westerns (or should I say good Westerns) don’t come around often in the game world but this one looks promising.

The game looks incredible but the story is one I think we’ve all heard before. Nevertheless, that won’t keep me from wasting considerable amounts of time on this title.

Red Dead Redemption billboard at Times Square. via Rockstar Games

Basically, you play as John Marston, a former outlaw who is sent across the American frontier in the early 1900′s to bring the rule of law to the wild West. Shoot crooks, blow up stuff, rob trains, and decide whether you want to play nice or bring fear wherever you go.

via Rockstar Games:

The graphics for the game are gritty, weathered, and worn…and it’s nothing short of beautiful. The animation sequences are unique and a pleasure to watch. The site is well designed and the headlines are actually handled nicely. It’s not designed around your usual slab serif’s and the community edition of the game sounds pretty neat.

Video title sequence

Free wallpaper available for download.

I’d like to think Clint Eastwood would be content in playing this game…if he knew what a Playstation was. Anyway, Red Dead Redemption will be released May 18th in the US and the 21st in the UK. Pre-orders are out now.

Extra Linkage:

Red Dead Redemption website

Game downloads

Just a quick post for now, but I’ve been working on my latest and last project before I graduate in about two weeks. It’s taking quite a while you could say, but I’m beginning to like the result. I’ve created the room you see below from scratch (from the ground up, really) for a short motion graphics piece that I’ll eventually be able to animate. I don’t want to give away too much at the moment but there will/should be three to four custom rooms I’m building for an interior design show.

It took a few fails to get to feeling comfortable with the photograph/vector combination, but the more I nudge a few pixels, the more restful I feel with my idea.

Feel free to share the love/suggest improvements/yell at me. I’ll promise not to cry. Oh, and you might recognize a few of the pictures hanging on the wall. I thought it would be nice to recognize a few of my influences for the project.

Happy Friday!

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–UPDATE – 4.27.10–

Here’s the next room I created.

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–UPDATE – 5.04.10–

And the last of three rooms is completed.

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–UPDATE – 5.08.10–

Okay, so Shatner probably wouldn’t have hosted…but come on!

Extra Linkage:

Site Inspire – One of the top web inspiration sites out there!

Feedly – Organize your favorite sites into a magazine-like start page.

Dinobrain – A comedy podcast that keeps me company late in the early morning.