FIRST AWARD FOR THE 3RD EDITION OF DESGRANANDO CÓMICS!!! - April 2023

Some panels from the comic (left) and the First Award certificate (right)

What an awesome feeling when I heard the names of my sister and myself as the winners of the 3rd editon of Desgranando Cómics, a spanish national comic contest focused on scientific dissemination. The comic is named 'El baile de Fin de Ciclo', created by Mireya (script) and myself (drawings). It is a story about what happens with DNA during cell division, told from the perspective of two chromatids (strings of DNA) sisters.

The little scream you can hear when the winners are announced is from my sister haha

Visit the official website and find the published PDF below!!

TESTING AND IMPROVING LIVE LINK FACE BLENDER ADDON FOR FACIAL MOCAP - 2023

Metahuman head provided by Dragonboots Studios and improved by me (added Rigify bones)

I am exploring the use of facial motion capture techniques with just an iPhone and the Live Link Face app.

SPECIAL MENTION AWARD FOR MALAGACREA'23 SHORT FILM CONTEST!!! - October 2023

Short film Un Paso Más

Un Paso Más was a very challenging short film I had to make in less than 4 weeks (and having just learned the basics of Toon Boom Harmony!). Kudos to my friends Belén (together with me in the picture below) and María for the amazing voice acting.

Voice actress Belén with myself holding the award certificate (right) and all finalist (right, credit: Ayto de Málaga).

2D ANIMATED CLIP A MEETING IN THE FOREST APPEARING IN HARMONY 2023 STUDIO REEL - January 2023

The whole clip that was sent to the Toon Boom team

I created this clip while I was taking an online course in 2D Animation given by Escape Studios. To improve my skills with Toon Boom Harmony, I decided to challenge myself to spend some of the Christmas holidays in making this clip on time for the annual Harmony reel. I was so glad when I saw some seconds of this clip shocased in the reel. You can find it in the video link below, together with another link to my Toon Boom Harmony 2D Animation Reel.

3D ANIMATION WITH BLENDER OF ROBERTO THE ROVER - October 2023

Roberto happily driving to its next destination

I created this cute character for the indie game prototype After Dark: Mars Mission. Roberto is a robotic explorer (or rover) that wants to contribute to the scientific progress by finding interesting rocks and water in Mars.

SPECIAL MENTION AWARD FOR MALAGACREA'22 COMIC CONTEST!!! - October 2022

Panel from the comic (left) and the Special Mention Award certificate (right)

Capitán Sardinilla is a superhero parody where a human becomes a sardine with legs after eating a not-so-good espeto (sardines in a stick, typical from Malaga -Spain-). With his new form, Capitán Sardinilla is devoted to fight evil and save the innocent using non-conventional tactics.

Videogames

After dark: mars mission

RISE OF RAISINS
I created this game prototype by myself, making the 3d models, implementing the logic in C# and creating the animation system.

BRAIN DIVE_
I collaborated in the development of Brain Drive, a prototype game made in Unity for the Brackeys Game Jam 2023.2.

FILMS

UN PASO MÁS
Special Mention Award of MalagaCrea 23.
This was a very challenging short film I had to make in less than 4 weeks (and having just learned the basics of Toon Boom Harmony!). Kudos to my friends Belén and María for the amazing voice acting.

A MEETING IN THE FOREST
I created a 2D animated clip in Winter 2022 that was showcased in the Toon Boom Studio Reel 2023!!

COMICS

El Baile de Fin de Ciclo
2023 FIRST AWARD III Edition of National Scientific Dissemination Comic Contest Desgranando Cómics

El Capitán Sardinilla
2022 SPECIAL MENTION AWARD MalagaCrea22 Comic Contest

Yo (No) Robot
Comic made in 2019

Un Paso Más
Comic made in 2015

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Hello there! I'm Ric

First and foremost, nice to meet you and welcome to my site. This is a place where I show to the world the different projects I have worked on in both my techie and artist sides.With regards to my research background, I received the PhD with honours (cum laude) in robotics at the University of Malaga in 2022. My thesis is about the research I did on novel pathfinding for mobile robots, with a consideration of planetary exploration rovers. Thanks to this I have carried out stays in many interesting places such as the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).As an engineer at Airbus, I work towards developing and validating methods and algorithms that help rovers gain autonomy to drive further and faster. This is important as the more places these systems arrive, the more the scientific return of a mission. My coding skills come in handy to implement prototypes as well as to maintain and develop features in our navigation systems.Lastly, and no less important, I have a strong passion about art and telling stories. This passion motivates me to work on projects like comics, animated films and games. I feel inspired by films and series such as Spiderman Across the Spiderverse, Arcane and many of the Star Wars animated series, as well as videogames such as Baldur's Gate III, The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect. I finished by the beginning of 2023 an online course in 2D animation and I have also being self-learning 3D modelling, rigging and animation using Blender, as well as how to make games.You can find me in many social networks. Check the buttons at the footer ot the site.
Have a nice day! :)