Gabby Zapata

Happy Holidays!!

2011-12-16T11:26:00.000-08:00

I've been busy lately, so I haven't had time to update at all! I've been posting things here and there on my tumblr not so much here. Anyway, I want to thank all you wonderful people for being supportive and as well as for the fabulous people I met during CTN-X!

I wish you all happy holidays and have a fabulous new year's to come! :)

Hi :)

2011-10-26T11:49:00.000-07:00

Hi All!

Long time no post :) Sooo here are some doodles. I've been all over the place stylistically lately so, I've been noodling around trying different things here and there. Also, I'm proud to show you my halloween costume that I've been working on...

Til next time!

Oh yes, I will also be attending CTN-X this year in November 17-20.

Sooo... hope to see you there! :)

I'm Alive!

2011-08-30T17:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! I'm still alive! Sorry I've been inactive for the past couple months. It's been busy and chaotic at work and in my life. I've been posting things here and there on twitter, so I thought I'd share them here as a whole!

Above is a gouache painting that I was asked to participate in Power in Numbers show by Gallery Nucleus! Yay!
EDIT 9/5/11: It's finally up online! CLICK ME!

Here are some daily doodles I've been doing on the cintiq on and off at work.

Today I was sleepy at work and wanted to draw a girl with long wavy hair

I love red pandas :)!

And fat cats..

Also, this happened in my life :)

..aaand earlier doodle on the cintiq.

Welp. That is all for now! More doodles to come sometime soon!

EDIT: Oh yes! The name finally has been announced on the movie I'm working on at Digital Domain. The Legend of Tembo! Hooray! Here's the full article on it.
*CLICK ME*

Woot woot!

Drawing Dreams Foundation

2011-06-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

I was invited to participate in a special foundation called Drawing Dreams Foundation. It's a California-based non-profit organization that helps provide art supplies to children's hospitals.

Some of the participating artists include Leo Matsuda, Brian Despain, Pascal Campion, and many others :)! So here's my tribute!

THESIS!

2011-06-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

Here it is, my short film!
Hope you enjoy! :)
**Watch it on vimeo and turn on HD for better quality!**
Edit: Here are some production work that was done prior to thesis.

Charleston

2011-05-25T16:51:00.001-07:00

Big post I know! I've been watching a lot of those dancing shows on TV while I'm still at home and I've been inspired to look into different types of dance styles. Meant to do just one, buuut one led to another!
Hmm looking to see which dance style to do next :)

Rain

2011-05-17T23:03:00.000-07:00

Been busy, but here's a little doodle.
:)

edit: peek on over to the right. I am now taking commissions for a limited time!

Graduating!

2011-05-02T22:55:00.000-07:00

After four long amazing years, I am graduating from college this Friday!
So many things have been happening around here and exciting things as well :)

As probably many of you have already heard, I will be joining Digital Domain Studios here in Florida as a Story/Visual Development artist working on feature animation! Joining me also on this journey is my fellow classmate Betsy Bauer who will also do Visual Development :)!
Digital Domain's has been known for its epic special effects (ie. Titanic, Tron, 2012, iRobot) and the new studio here will focus on feature animated films! As Betsy already mentioned, most of the staff there has worked at Disney/Pixar, so it'll be a cool new journey to be a part of this!

I'm ready for life to begin!

Thank you!

2011-04-18T19:16:00.000-07:00

I just want to say thank you to all of you who visit my blog and leave lovely comments :)! It really really means a lot to me! I've been busy with many things so, there's not much to show lately! Hopefully things will change soon! I promise to post my short film sometime soon later this month.. so tune in for that!

Sirenitas

2011-03-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

Above are for a gallery show on campus :)

..aaand some other doodles :)

scribbly

2011-03-10T21:33:00.000-08:00

Hi :) Not much new.. I've been doodling other things, little projects, etc.- but I don't feel like they'd be worth posting just yet.. so for now, here's this scribble. Trying something different..

Side note- Short film is almost done! By April 1st it shall be complete :)

vday

2011-02-14T18:21:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day!
(er..Singles Awareness Day!)

Hi!

2011-02-07T18:12:00.000-08:00

Hi! Been a busy bee getting thesis done... So, here's just a doodle of my thesis character.
Oh, and a 3D render still of my short film. Yay. Soon to be done in April!

:)

2011-01-14T22:30:00.000-08:00

Hi! It's been a crazy beginning for this new year :)! Lots of new opportunities, new things to learn, and things to accomplish. Final push for finishing my short film!
Here's just a few doodlings that were part of something else that I've been working on. Oh, and I never posted the mermaid from a while back so thought I'd post it now. As a side note, I opened up an Etsy Print shop :)! Feel free to peek around or tell your friends!

Yay!

Happy New Year!

2010-12-31T18:15:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks to being wonderful and here's to a year full of awesomeness to all! Cheeeers! :)

daddys girl

2010-12-18T17:59:00.001-08:00

holidays

2010-12-13T20:08:00.001-08:00

Hi! Finally the semester is over! Only a semester away from graduating!! Time for a little break!
My kind friend, Amanieu Rebu was nice enough to let me know that my artwork was published in the ImagineFX magazine!! Here's a link of what it looks like! Cliick! This December issue is available at Barnes n Noble if you guys ever want to check it out :)!

Also also!

My page is now up at the MadeBy Gallery! There are some prints for sale :)! CLICK!
More will be added later!

Happy Holidays!

Dude

2010-12-04T06:07:00.000-08:00

Meet Justin. He's cool and one of my bestest buddies evarrr! Check out his work HERE :)

I finally received my one and only sketchcard by the amaaaazing Wayne Medina :)!
Smiling it up just as promised! Thanks, Wayne :]! Go look at his work! Now! CLICK HERE
Side note- Thank you everyone for being awesome! One away from 100 followers!
Semester is almost over (next week!) I can feeeeel it!

dandelion

2010-11-27T14:26:00.001-08:00

A remake of an old drawing :)

dragonnnn

2010-11-15T19:46:00.000-08:00

Bailarinas

2010-11-11T11:16:00.001-08:00

Little doodle. :)
edit: That little announcement [no big deal really haha] from the previous post was just that I am contributing my work at Madeby Gallery that displays current and alumni student artwork :) Prints and cards are for sale. Soon, they'll have a link on their site that has more info on that. Yay!

gown

2010-10-14T21:30:00.001-07:00

Little doodle :) Fun little announcement coming soon!..not saying just yet!

Something New

2010-10-11T09:38:00.000-07:00

Lots of new stuff! I've been prepping for portfolio and some of these are remakes of past sketches that I wanted to touch up on. Others, are new :)!

rapunzel, let down thy golden extentions

2010-09-23T14:59:00.000-07:00

Busy busy! Taking a little break from Thesis. I promise to post something soon!..

This was inspired by my Children's Literature class where we got to learn about the 'real' story of Rapunzel and the secret meanings.. don't know the story?..Go read the Grimm's Brother's Rapunzel.

feathers

2010-09-09T16:06:00.000-07:00

This is an old sketch from that digital sketch club, thought i'd draw this while I wait for my renders :)

Sketch Club

2010-09-03T18:15:00.001-07:00

Hey all! So today, I was invited to do a demo this evening on a super cool club here at Ringling called "D.P.S.C." [digital painting sketch club] and a bunch of kids all gathered and did a sketchoholic-style contest where we were given a topic and it had to be completed in an hour. The topic was 'Bird Girl' and so this is what I came up with :) Thanks to all who came!! It was super rad!
[ps. sorry if this is super saturated! I was working with different monitor than I usually do.]

**Update**
Here's the link to the D.P.S.C. blog! Click HERE

bubbly~

2010-08-27T15:52:00.000-07:00

Hey all! Took a little break from thesis! So, for now just a little concept art of what my character basically looks like. Stills/renders will come later I promise ;) Hope everyone is doing great!
What an exciting senior year!
Anywhooo..back to workkk! :)

tweedly-dee

2010-08-19T22:32:00.000-07:00

GouacheOld doodles I had from a while back that forgot to post.

Senior year in 3 days here we go!

Yodele-heee-whooooo

2010-08-19T00:04:00.001-07:00

Next in the series :)

Mexicana

2010-08-17T19:25:00.001-07:00

So I've decided to continue a series of these..Ladies from different cultures with their cultural dresses.

When I was younger and living in Mexico, I was in this school play and I had to wear a dress similar to this, but it was much poofier and it was white. I don't remember much of it, I was around 7 when this happened. I remember having to learn how to make a bow on the ground from the ribbon we had using only your feet as you danced around with your partner. It was pretty hard!

indian lady

2010-08-16T20:20:00.001-07:00

Hmm I might do a series of these... :)

aloha

2010-08-16T18:06:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the last two posts ago, I doodled this up while waiting at the bank using the Brushes app for the iPhone with the pogo stick pen :] My hand died afterwards.
I want to go back to hawaii again!

birdie birdie birdie

2010-08-14T18:45:00.001-07:00

I feel like I've neglected my parrot ever since I got my pup. So, here's a quick doodly of my birrdd, Kiki :)

hawaiian gal

2010-08-13T20:14:00.001-07:00

I was cleaning some stuff out today and I found an old figurine that I got in Hawaii years back. She was carved out of wood though :)

mami's kitchen

2010-08-12T14:12:00.000-07:00

My mom was cooking the yummiest Mexican food ever.

puppy love

2010-08-09T21:15:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow I'll be taking Emmie to get her fixed/spayed. I feel like a worried mother hoping it'll be okay [i'm sure it will!] Anyway, I decided to doodle up something just because. Hah it's funny, I never really know if she's looking at me or not because of her big ol' bug-eyes looking the opposite direction. Still love her though!
Also, I want to thank everyone for all your support! You are all super wonderful people! :)

EDIT: Here's a post-pic just because she looks silly with the cone of shame haha

Kiki and GIgi

2010-08-07T20:22:00.000-07:00

My submission for the sketchoholic contest :) Never entered before, but figure i'd enter just for kicks! The topic was draw your favorite childhood anime in your own style. So I decided to do Kiki from the amazing movie Kiki's Delivery service. Ahh, those were the days :) [wish me luck!]

muurmaid

2010-08-04T20:53:00.001-07:00

I had an uuurrgee to draw a mermaid. It's been a while.

Shark Week!

2010-08-01T20:58:00.000-07:00

In inspiration from Shane Lewis, I decided to join in the bandwagon. Hooray for shark week!

gouache

2010-08-01T16:05:00.001-07:00

I got myself a set of gouache to experiment with and so here's the attempts that I doodled up!

feliz cumpleaños, mami

2010-07-31T17:57:00.000-07:00

I was debating whether to post this or not, but what the heck might as well. The actual birthday was the 25th though. The people in this is my older sister, mom, and me :)

Turtle

2010-07-30T21:31:00.000-07:00

Went to the park the other day and saw a buuunch of little turtles peeping their heads out of the water. Scared me at first thinking they were snakes floating around, but they were simply little turtles :)!

frolic

2010-07-25T14:06:00.001-07:00

Hmm. Nothing to say about this post. Just another doodle.

tweet tweet

2010-07-23T21:23:00.001-07:00

So, I finally fell in for Twitter, to see what it's all about. You can follow me by clicking THIS ! I'm still trying to get used to how it all works, but I'll get used to it soon enough! :)

red

2010-07-22T19:31:00.000-07:00

Ooo-la-laa

2010-07-19T18:45:00.000-07:00

Hah, so this is a remake of an old drawing I did which is THIS . I did it back in high school for one of those AP studio art assignments. It's not exactly the same, but I took the essence of it. So ashamed of its ugliness! hah :) But at least you can see the difference in each one...I hope :]

Gaga

2010-07-18T19:27:00.000-07:00

While jogging today listening to Pandora, she happens to pop into my station. Which made me inspired to draw this. She may be a bizarre lady with eccentric outfits, but she looks fabulous in them.

The girl and her dog

2010-07-16T22:34:00.000-07:00

One of the joys for me this summer was getting a puppy. I haven't had a dog since I was maybe around 14 or so. Her name is Emmie and she is what they call a 'Boggle'..a boston terrier with beagle. She's brought the happy outta me this summer and really just makes me feel overall positive about everything. It's funny how puppies have this thing that can bring you such joy with their playfulness and whatnot.

I love my little bug-eyed monster :)

Chardonnay

2010-07-15T19:22:00.000-07:00

This was done for a wine contest..I hope for the best!

green couch

2010-07-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

More old doodles that I decided to take into photoshop to tweak up

pink house

2010-07-10T17:57:00.000-07:00

More inspiration from the passages I saw during my stay in Kansas

Kansas

2010-07-07T17:02:00.000-07:00

Little doodle during my visit to Kansas about a week ago. There were so many cute little houses, almost like doll houses. Also during my stay, I visited James! and went to a fancy food festival. Anywhoo, more updates later :)

summer

2010-06-05T22:05:00.000-07:00

I keep seeing a lot of this at the malls. They're not even looking where they're going..
Yay new dress.

jellyfish

2010-05-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

I've been around the ocean a lot lately. So, here's something I doodled up

summer doodle

2010-05-29T17:25:00.000-07:00

Colors! app

2010-05-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

Done using the Colors! app from the iPhone app with my fingertips :)
Just a self-motivation on my part for thesis. Yay.

Doodle

2010-05-18T17:29:00.001-07:00

I've been meaning to post this. This was inspired by something I saw at the park. Something I wish i'd see more often in children. I dedicate this to both my Abuelitas [grandma]. I miss them :)

Meet Emily

2010-05-05T15:33:00.000-07:00

Demoreel!

2010-03-29T20:52:00.000-07:00

gabby zapata demoreel 2010 from gabriela zapata on Vimeo.

Feature Blog

2010-03-26T17:04:00.000-07:00

I stumbled on this kind email this morning stating my blog got featured on their site. Soo, to return the favor, here' s their site! :)
check it out~
Canon Printer Ink Cartridges
Direct Link

Besides this post, here's a little doodly from a while ago..

Update

2010-03-19T20:26:00.000-07:00

Done in my iphone using the Colors! app with my fingertips :)

Old sketches/pitches..

Emotions Test

2010-02-26T17:25:00.000-08:00

CLICK ABOVE! I TALK ! :)

Lip Sync Update!

2010-02-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

Hi All!
Thought i'd share a little update on my lip sync model..
Still have a few things to tweak here and there.

End of Semester Goodies!

2009-12-11T17:10:00.000-08:00

EDIT: Updated/Improved this painting :)
DFA More Drama Painting

LipSync Animatic

Push/Pull Exaggerated

Hey guys! Semester is overrrr! Thought i'd update :)
EDIT: Colors may change depending on each monitor! Sooo, I apologize if it looks really saturated or vice versa!

DRAMA!

2009-11-24T23:28:00.001-08:00

Digital painting done for drawing for animators class! Woo!

Push/Pull Natural!

2009-11-17T19:34:00.000-08:00

Or click THIS for even HIGHER quality. Downside? it'll take a while to load..
Woohoooo!

Lip-Sync

2009-10-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

Caricature Explorations!

2009-10-03T22:27:00.000-07:00

aandddd, a sneak-peek ;D..not done yet!

Push/Pull Turnaround!

2009-09-22T15:08:00.000-07:00

Soon to be modeled! :)

Silhouettes

2009-09-09T22:38:00.001-07:00

EDIT: I did a revision, I fixed up a few things that were mentioned during critique. Hopefully these are better :)

Blair Waldorf

2009-06-30T18:39:00.000-07:00

So, recently hooked on the popular tv series, Gossip Girl, I was inspired to draw one of the main characters from the show. Meet Blair Waldorf! :]

peacock

2009-06-26T13:04:00.001-07:00

On the Other Line

2009-05-04T05:32:00.000-07:00

Here's a few screenshots of my animatic for concept class :)

CLICK ME!

Visual Development

2009-04-20T07:46:00.000-07:00

andd a sneak peek of my subjective assignment:

worked from a mac..sooo, the colors will probably most likely be super vibrant on other computers. Sorry!

SitStand!

2009-04-09T19:08:00.001-07:00

CLICK ME! I CAN MOVE!

Finally, Sit Stand is over :D

ughh

2008-12-27T19:35:00.001-08:00

Poly Exercises!

2008-12-17T16:30:00.001-08:00

Clicky Click!

Tshirt design

2008-11-24T06:10:00.000-08:00

Here's a tshirt design I did for this website that has tons of helpful information about long distance relationships. Check it out! Click here

Primitive Theater!

2008-10-24T17:52:00.001-07:00

At last, here it is :D

http://webspace.ringling.edu/~gzapata/ACCESS/CG220/gzapata_primitive_theater_soundfinal.mov

character designs

2008-09-01T07:19:00.000-07:00

These are just a few character designs I was working on for traditional animation class. I ended up [more like the teacher ended up] choosing the one on the top left. I figured she'd be fun to animate. So we'll see how that goes! Click to full view

classy? hmm i must say.

2008-08-05T08:09:00.000-07:00

Scrap doodle I drew on paper and then colored in photoshop.

Seascape Painting

2008-06-12T12:36:00.000-07:00

Here's a painting that I did for a commission. She wanted a very mellow seascape that would match her bathroom. This oil painting is 24x24 canvas.

photoshop junk

2008-05-27T19:20:00.000-07:00

A preview of what i'm working on :)

old junk

2008-05-22T15:54:00.001-07:00

I was looking through old papers and cleaning out my room, and I found this. I remember doing this back when I was around 4 or 5 years old. Hahah I look back at this and laugh. I guess I improved lol.

Under the sea

2008-05-21T08:43:00.000-07:00

Here's one version of Ariel that I drew and colored in photoshop. Primarily, I was just testing out the different color schemes that she could have. In this one I was trying to go for the antique-ish look on her. Cliiiick to see full version!

Sketchummss

2008-05-14T18:45:00.001-07:00

A few doodless i've been doing in my sketchbook.

Wuut?

2008-05-01T20:24:00.001-07:00

More doodles i've been doing to keep myself busy...

Painting

2008-04-30T18:45:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on Bristol paper.