Selected work

A Translating Body

An animation to stand inside

Illustration and animation

I illustrated and animated a film about perception for a panoramic projection in Parque Explora’s Sala de la Mente in Medellín. I organised the composition into three movements: the body, the senses and the natural world.

Client
Parque Explora · Medellín
Setting
Sala de la Mente
Deliverables
  • Storyboard and visual studies
  • Illustrated sequences
  • Animation for spatial projection

In the museum

Installation recording at Parque Explora. The full film below includes narration by the museum team and sound and music by Eme Isaza.

Un cuerpo traductor: installation entrance at Parque Explora
Narration projected inside the installation
A visitor in the immersive projection space

Image and projection

Full film
Rough composition of figures in pink, yellow and black, exploring bodily gestures

Study

Gesture, overlap and colour studies for the animated figures.

An illustrated figure surrounded by warm colours

Animation

Animated sequence in the full panoramic frame.

Open animation
Animated plants projected inside the museum

Installation

Plant and animal sequence, recorded inside the Sala de la Mente.

Open animation

Storyboard and visual studies

Studies of faces, waves and cellular forms for the sensory sequences.

Early storyboard: a face assembled from eyes, ears, mouths and noses
Line study of a spiral and vibration for the sensory sequence
Green branching cellular forms, a study for A Translating Body
Composition study of eyes and mouths across a multicoloured panoramic field

The body

The senses

The natural world

Full film

3 min 11 sec · Spanish narration
VimeoParque Explora

Credits

Illustration and animation
Catalina Vásquez
Sound design and music
Eme Isaza
Script and voice-over
Parque Explora team
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