{ Santasombra news: }

{ June }

Recently we have expanded our graphic repertoire into the area of architectural visualization with two projects showing renovation ideas for a single-family house for sale in Westport, Connecticut.

Santasombra will be participating in the IDA (International Design Awards) Poster of the Year Competition for 2009

Santasombra is developing a one minute 3D/2D procedural animation for LUX, using Blender, C4D and TopMod as the basic 3D and procedural softwares.

Santasombra is working along with Ernesto Hernandez and Univison - El Paso, TX on the TV show La Cocina Indígena (The Indigenous Cuisine). We are editing and creating motion graphics material.

Our next film, El Cadaver Exquisito is growing. We are planning and pre-producing our next trip to El Salvador in July to shoot the second round of scenes, with Rossemberg Rivas.

{ May }

Santasombra attended the 30th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY AWARDS 2008 at The Fredick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, with the NBC Olympics design team: David Barton (Senior Designer), Borys Jarymovych (Designer), John Schleef (Art Director), Matt Celli (Head of Chyron Implementation), Phil Paully (Technical Director), Greg Catanzarita (Technical Director), Craig Wilkie (Chyron Implementation)

The whole month Santasombra proudly collaborated with JWT in the second round of the creation of motion graphics, 2D & 3D material for the Microsoft campaign "People Ready." It was a successful, busy month for us.

{ April }

Santasombra is proud to announce that The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has nominated us for The 30th ANNUAL SPORTS EMMY AWARDS 2008/09, in the category of “Outstanding Graphic Design”, thanks to the work we did for NBC Olympics last year, for the Beijing Olympics ‘08 graphics package. The event will take place at The Fredick P. Rose Hall, Home of the Jazz at Lincoln Center, this coming Monday the 27th at 7:00PM. Wish us luck…

The Rabinal Project with Walterio is ongoing; we have a show opening at Carlos Woods Gallery in Guatemala City this Friday the 17th. Our next city to document is La Habana, Cuba.

The weekend of the 25th, Santasombra will shoot stop motion material along with NY based artist Sarah Walko. This is for the project “El Cadaver Exquisito.”

“Ever Amado” was accepted in the OXACA Film Festival. We will be there next month.

Santasombra has been invited to collaborate with K.O.M.A.L. Collective in the National Itinerant Exposition of Urban Art “Las Calles Estan Diciendo Cosas” in Mexico City. We will be there next month. Our role is to create a documentary and motion graphics material to be released in as a DVD package.

We just returned from Mexico… The projects “La Cocina Indigena” and “El Cadaver Exquisito” kept the crew very busy. “La Cocina Indigena” (Indigenous Cuisine) is a Univision-funded project of Ernesto Hernández. It is a TV series of 30-minute shows and each program is filmed in a different city of Mesoamerica. The first two cities chosen were Texcoco and Tehotihuacan. We are participating in this project in the areas of directorial advising, camera work, editing and motion graphics content creation. We arrived first at El Paso, TX, then we drove to Ciudad Juarez and then flew to Mexico City. We were based at Texcoco, 30 minutes from the capital and Tehotihuacan. Now we are back in the NY metro area, working on the editing phase and the creation of the motion graphics package for the show.

{ March }

Santasombra continues working intensively with JWT on the creation of motion graphics material for the Microsoft campaign "People Ready." Also, we just started working with another brand for JWT, Neosporin.

From NYC to El Paso Texas, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico D.F., Texcoco, Teotihuacan and all the way back. This is the current itinerary for our next Project, "El Cadaver Exqusito", a sequel to the story we started to develop a few years ago with our short Ever Amado. Production starts this March the 26th at El Paso TX, the next day the crew will drive to Ciudad Juarez and then Mexico DF. We will be back Sunday the 5th.

{ February }

Santasombra started working with JWT on the creation of motion graphics material for the Microsoft campaign "People Ready."

Santasombra is helping Andrea Lira, a New York artist from The New School, in the creation of a video presentation/installation for the thesis show of Parsons: The New School for Design.

The Rabinal project with Walterio Iraheta from El Salvador is ongoing. We recently finished the first animation for this series. The Rabinal Project is a series of animations that will be presented as an installation using video projections. The project consist of a series of 125 pictures, placed together in a timeline of 13 minutes. At the same time, the main form of mechanical transportation of that specific place slowly forms itself. This is done using 3D models and HDR/global illumination set-ups for a hyper-realistic render. For the first animation, from a town called "Rabinal" in Guatemala, the means of transportation chosen was a bicycle.

Recently we had the opportunity to collaborate with JWT and The Nursery on the story boards for an upcoming Smirnoff TV campaign.

For our newest client "That's Entertrainment TM" a division of Rivoli Design Group, Inc., we made a set of hybrid CD disks to be viewed on either PC or MAC.

"El Camaleón" is the new title for the project with La Escuela de Jóvenes Talentos and Dr. José Matias Delgado University, in San Salvador, El Salvador. Work is ongoing. We finished the proposal and currently we are awaiting approval of the budget.

{ Happy 2009 }

New year = new website. Santasombra has a new look and we are excited to show you what we’ve been up to lately.

{ Hasta pronto… }