I am an Emmy Award winning Story Artist, Animator and Illustrator, specializing in Animation and Motion Graphics for documentary films, from Concept Art and Storyboards to Animatics and full Animation.

My work for Documentaries has recently included:

Storyboard and Concept Art for documentary film “The Mission” directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, Storyboards for “Still. A Michael J.Fox Movie” directed by Davis Guggenheim, Animation and Illustration for Documentary film “The Disruptors”, Concept Art, Storyboards and Animation for Hulu´s documentary series ¨The Next Thing You Eat with David Chang”, Storyboards and Color for AppleTV+ documentary series “Watch the Sound with Marc Ronson”, Art Direction, Concept Art and Storyboards for Starz Network Documentary Series “Seduced - Inside The NVXIVM Cult”, Concept Art, Storyboards and Motion Graphics for Netflix series “Miss Americana”, Animation for the three-part Netflix documentary “Inside Bill's Brain” directed by Davis Guggenheim, Concept Art, Illustration and Animation for Showtime Documentary film “Sid and Judy”, Storyboard and Concept Artist / Background and Color Design for the 2018 Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize winner “The Price of Free”, directed by Derek Doneen; Artist and Animator for “What Haunts Us”, directed by Paige Tomalch, winner of the 2017 Best Documentary Feature Award at the Ojai Film Festival; Storyboard and Concept Artist for Davis Guggenheim’s “He Named Me Malala”, winner of the 2016 Annie Award for Best Animated Special Production.

I worked with director Benjamin Goldman on animated films for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s permanent exhibition “American Enterprise,” which debuted in 2015.

I create animated credits for films, and make illustrations for editorial and advertisting.

My recent work also includes illustrations for two children’s books, a biography of “Metallica” for tweens written by Soledad Romero Marino (Reservoir Books 2017) and “El Pequeño Circo de Asno y Camello” (Alba Editorial 2015), written by Judy Cantor-Navas.


As a Motion Graphics Designer, I’ve worked for NBC/Universal in Los Angeles (I earned two Promax Awards for On-Air Illustration), for MTV in New York, and for the cult Ibero-American animation network, The Locomotion Channel.

I draw, paint and work on international projects in my studio in Barcelona.

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