Hey it’s me! But who is this guy, you may ask. The name is Jorge Valadez, but you can also just call me George, and I like drawing, movies, series, video games, sneakers, fashion, food, cute aesthetic things, the Tokusatsu genre and frogs!. I’m also a Storyboard Artist with influence on 2D animation but some 3D works on my back too.
Everything started when I was a clueless kid with a dream I didn’t know what it was, all I knew was that I wanted to draw cartoons and Pokémon and video games characters, and I was fascinated by this world of pictures that I just didn’t know how they were made and how they were moving and breathing so lively. But with time I understood something, I love creating and imagining stories, and I was fascinated by this concept of fictional characters connecting with audiences, making me cry with them and laugh with them. Move forward 20 years into the future and I finally learned the struggles of animation, I took a bachelor at the CEDIM university in Monterrey, Mexico on Design and Animation, where I was taught on all the different takes of the industry, 2D, 3D, video games, publicity etc. Once I graduated I took a specialist degree focused on traditional animation at the Vancouver Film School where I graduated with my classical film Conchita’s Magical Bakery.
Since then, I’ve freelanced my way into the industry with all different kind of clients and animation studios including preschooler IPs like Little Angel and Peekabeans, to more older audiences projects like the upcoming series My Brother the Monster. My clients also include Disney and Lucasfilm’s with the brands of Star Wars: Galaxy of Creatures, other upcoming Star Wars project and an upcoming Warner’s DC animated miniseries, also recently my first film job at an upcoming movie in the production by the Mexican studio Gasolina Studio. My strength and skills show off at emotional and action sequences whether you need your characters showing their ugly crying in a burst of emotions or the laugh and excitement of a beautiful moment, the roughness of a fighting sequence or even the subtlety of a quiet silence moment I will provide it and maybe even touch the heart of the audiences too!.
Reach out at: javsjunior2@hotmail.com
| Skills | Education |
|---|---|
| • StoryBoard Pro •Adobe Photoshop •Adobe After Effects | CEDIM University •Bachelor Degree in Animation & Digital Art Vancouver Film School •Bachelor Degree in Classical Animation |
| Language | Experience |
| •Spanish (native) •English (fluent) | Little Angel •Gasolina Studio – Storyboard Artist & Animatic 2019-2022 My Brother the Monster •Gasolina Studio – Storyboard Artist & Animatic 2020-2021 Star Wars: Galaxy of Creatures •Mighty Animation – Storyboard Artist & Animatic 2022 Peekabeans •Storyboard Artist & Editing 2023 |