About

Hi,

I’m Andrés. I’m an animator, but it was a strange road getting here. I got my bachelor’s degree in anthropology, spent a couple years making lattes, then worked for a while as a web developer. When I decided to start over and go to art school, I wanted to become a storyboard artist, though I soon found I had a greater affinity and patience for animating in stop motion. I now hold an MFA in Animation from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where I focused on stop motion and wrote my thesis “Postcolonial Representation of Folk Characters in Animation.” My time at SCAD went on longer than expected when my team and I determined that to do our film justice it would need much more than the two minutes required to graduate; it ended up being seven, and well worth the effort.

I’m a Venezuelan-American, born and raised in the States. I grew up loving storytelling and world cultures, which most often manifested as D&D campaigns that never saw a gaming table. In grad school, that love became Con Fuerza. It began as a board-driven story for which I designed and drew the storyboards, animated every stop motion shot in the film, and got my chops as director of a crew that ultimately came to include over thirty people. I was also active in producing and fabricating throughout the process. The end result of everyone’s work was amazing, and while I enjoyed learning about aging, building props, lighting, and editing, I can now be sure my strengths are in story, animation, and directing; I’m also known to appear wherever a rig is needed.

You can find me @dapperHedgie on Instagram, and you can check out Con Fuerza @confuerzafilm on Instagram and Facebook.

Thanks so much for your visit!

-Andrés