MFA Graduate School of Animation & Visual Effect Pogram Application

Angélica A. Agélviz RodríguezFine Arts Portfolio

“Aunt”. 18” x 24”.

Gestural Drawing, 5 minute study.

Tools: Sanguine Pastel pencil.

“Aunt”. 18” x 24”.

Gestural Drawing, 20 minute study.

Tools: Sanguine Pastel pencil, Charcoal.

Life Drawing

“Grandpere”. 18” x 24”.

Gestural Drawing, 1 hour study.

Tools: Sanguine Pastel pencil.

Life Drawing

“Mamá”. 18” x 24”.

Gestural Drawing, 5 minute study each pose.

Tools: Charcoal pencil.

“Mamá”. 18” x 24”.

Gestural Drawing, 15 minute study each pose.

Tools: Charcoal pencil.

Fine Arts

“Peacock Lovers”. 16” x 20”.

Piece for the Expo “Perspectivas de Mujer” at Escuela de Bellas Artes in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Tools: Acrylic paint on canvas.

“The Fortune-Teller’s Cape”.

24” x 36”.

Piece for the Expo “Feria de Cultura y Arte Urbana” in Carolina, Puerto

Rico.

Tools: Acrylic paint on

canvas.

“Cacao”. 14” x 17”.

Still Life full study, done in class. Cacao fruit.

Tools: Graphite and Prismacolor color pencil.

Fine Arts

“Mixed Fruits”. 14” x 17”.

Still Life full study, done in class. Mixed fruits.

Tools: Graphite and Prismacolor color pencil.

Character Design

Character designs for Storyboard demo of “Faust - A Street”, which will be previewed in the following pages. (Top) Sketch designs of the main character, Faust. Solemn, stubborn and slouchy.(Bottom) Sketch designs of the main antagonist, Mephis(topheles). Sultry, sophist and sly.

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Cartooning

Online webcomic, originally published in the national newspaper, “Metro Puerto Rico News”.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator

“Sandmen”.Original one-shot comic, 20 pages long and published online.

“Sandmen” tells the story of two youngsters (Jon and June) travelling a world made up of deserts and mountains, where they must find their respective “doors” to go back to their original worlds.

Tools: Ink, scanner, Adobe Photoshop and Adope Illustrator.

Illustration

(Left)“Fairy Royalty”.11” x 15”.

(Top Right)“Fairy Wodland”.15” x 11”.

Both illustrations were made for the unpublished children’s book “Ambar: Un regalo de Dios”.

Tools: Watercolor and watercolor pencil.

“Birth of a fairy”. 11” x 15”.

Illustration for children’s book “Ambar: Un Regalo de Dios” and participant in Expo “Surrealismo Ilustrado” at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras.

Tools: Watercolor, watercolor pencils and Prismacolor color pencils.

“En el fondo del caño hay un negrito”.(At the bottom of the bayou there is a little black boy).11” x 17”.

Illustration for Student Grant Competition, recreating the cover of a famous puertorican children’s book.

Tools: Watercolor,watercolor pencils and color pencils.

Illustration

“Sky Children”. Clockwise:Solaris, Stella, Nimbus & Kalendas. 3” x 3”.

Mini collection of tiny astral goddesses. Shown at Expo “Surrealismo Ilustrado” in Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Rio Piedras.

Tools: Graphite and watercolor pencils on wood.

Angélica Agélviz is a young artist of Puertorican and Venezuelan descent.

She graduated from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Carolina with a

bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, and has studied art all through-out

her young life. Since early on in her career, she has taken great pleasure

in illustrating stories. It has always been a dream of hers to illustrate

children’s books and be an animator in a children’s movie or television

program.