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"Mang Billy" Filipino National Artist for Sculpture Napoleon Abueva. Brush and ink portrait. Napoleon Abueva (January 26, 1930 – February 16, 2018), more popularly known as Napoleón Abueva, was a Filipino artist. He was a sculptor given the distinction as the Philippines' National Artist for Sculpture. He was also entitled as the "Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture". He was awarded National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Visual Arts.

As part of my job as an art director for a TV station with cable channels offered abroad, I needed to come up with 3 promo plugs to commemorate US Veterans Day on November 11. One of the plugs used brush pen illustrations I made. I enjoyed drawing these images but the originals are a bit small - chosen for expediency's sake, I would have preferred a larger format - and I used a rather large brush pen. Linework was traditionally sketched, scanned then colored in Photoshop. "Portraits" will air on GMA International to commemorate US Veterans' Day on November 11.

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Illustration and design by myself with animation by GMA Post and Audrey Maralag.

Opening billboard illustration and motion design storyboard for a local animated series hailed as the first, local animated anthology series. Ang Mananalaysay (The Storyteller) by Jay Javier is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .

The storyboard for the teaser for a local, animated anthology on GMA. # alamat   # animation   # storyboard   # GMANetwork

Kal and Juan of GMA News TV's Ugaling Wagi. I designed these two over glasses of iced coffee, two or three Banh mi sandwiches, Jonas' beef pares ( with a side order of kikiam,) Jolli spaghetti, some bags of chicharon, nachos with cheese and a Burger Project monstrosity I mashed up. Of course, all these were eaten in a span of a week or two...

Art directed and illustrated by myself and written by Ruth Guhit. Animation and sound design by GMA Videographics and Audio.

"Good Manners and Right Conduct at the Dining Table" a plug for GMA NEWS TV

Dugo is an animated promo plug for the GMA Kapuso Foundation's SAGIP DUGTONG BUHAY Bloodletting Project.Written by Ruth Guhit and art directed/designed by myself. check out the video below:

Is the Filipino worth dying for? 29 years ago, this man answered this question with a resounding "yes."  Can we say the same? The plug tries to answer the question by showing amazing examples of self sacrifice by common Filipino and juxtaposing it the the life and death of Ninoy Aquino. The video was made for GMA News TV in commemoration of Ninoy Aquino's assassination. I art directed the design and motion graphics while Dawn Tan wrote the copy. Animation by GMA Videographics.

I work as an art director for a major network in the Philippines. Part of my work for the company involves developing PSAs or Public Service Announcements for advocacies or causes the network believes in. In time for the opening of classes all over the country this June 6, 2011, we developed a series of PSAs promoting reading as an important tool in improving lives. The series was written and conceptualized by George Moya, our assistant creative director, myself as art director, Rolly Magpayo as videographer, Neil Iguiz as production designer, as well as the creative talent of the people at GMa Network's post production department. As it sometimes goes with non-profit PSAs, these were done with no budget. Not "a little", not "some", but NO budget. To get around the minor problem of not having any money to spend on production, we enlisted the aid of fellow art director Rolly and his lenses, the department Canon camera, as well as footage previously shot by GMa...