Alex "El X" Campos

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2009-09-10T09:58:00.000-07:00

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The Zula Patrol comic book featuring Super Wigg

2008-04-29T11:25:00.001-07:00

Here are a couple of pages from a comic book I worked on over the holidays. The Zula Patrol is an educational cartoon created by Deborah Manchester. I was the character designer on their third season of production. They called me back last fall and asked me to adapt one of their episodes into comic book form. These are a couple of pages from the book.

A Kim and Kam episode

2007-02-08T16:25:00.000-08:00

Since this show revolves around music I get to do a lot of theater and music hall backgrounds. This is one of my favorites. It looked pretty good on screen to.

Philly Phil goes to space

2007-02-08T16:13:00.000-08:00

The kids send Phil out into space. Or do they? Nope he lands himself in Roswell....Atlanta. We do get to see some cool futuristic stuff though. Like this here control room in Sunny's lair.

My favorite episode so far

2007-02-08T16:05:00.000-08:00

Just catching up on my blogging. This one here is from The Devil and Lil'D. I loved designing Big D's studio. We got a good chance to explore the style of the show and push graphics. This is the set of Lil D's new music video.

Funkbot 3000

2006-11-27T18:00:00.000-08:00

Our newest episode "Blobtober" came out on Friday. I especially liked this one because I got to do something totally new on this episode. I got a chance to build a full-size robot costume that we put on Travis, the "renaissance man" animator that works on all the music videos. We shot some pictures of him in my costume and then ran it through some effects to get the look that we had in the music video sequence. The whole costume was built out of cardboard, tape and sharpie in just under 3 days. Here's a picture of an early develpment effects pass. Big thanks to Chris Staples and Don Devine for making our videos look so great.

Funky Monkey Background

2006-11-21T17:38:00.000-08:00

Every episode has a guest art director who designs the look of the music video. We then take the design concept and run with it. I was lucky enough to design and paint some backgrounds on this one. Kyle Baker was the guest art director on the Funky Monkey music video and as always Andre Benjamin did an awesome job provding us with original music.

Anything he wants.

2006-11-21T17:26:00.000-08:00

Last week we aired a great episode, Funky Monkey. It was a good one. This shot is of Sunny Bridges' enormous closet. Momo the gorilla gets into it and destroys a tenth of Sunny's wardrobe.

Amoeba Band

2006-11-14T17:37:00.000-08:00

Here's a few characters that I designed for an educational show on PBS called Zula Patrol. I have no idea when it's on. I think it airs on Monday afternoon. It's a fun little show all done in CG that teaches kids about science.

It's Alive! It's Alive!

2006-11-14T17:15:00.000-08:00

Here is another BG from the show. It's FrankenNut! This one was painted by the man himself Valerio Ventura, otherwise known as V2 the very talented art director on our show. I'll try to post a background from each show as it airs. Don't miss them. Fridays at 8pm as well as Saturday mornings (of course) and Sundays. The episodes get better and better as the season progresses.

Class of 3000 Premiered

2006-11-14T17:06:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago Class of 3000 premeired on Cartoon Network. I've been designing backgrounds for the show this past year. Here are a couple of samples. The design is mine, meaning the composition and all the line work, the color is done by either Roger Luan or Casey Mitchum. They do awesome work. This one was for the premiere episode.

evolution

2006-09-28T14:16:00.000-07:00

Here's a short film I did in school called evolution. It's all about what could have been. Click on the little question mark to check it out.

Creepier but not scary

2006-08-08T15:54:00.000-07:00

This one is creepy but not scary enough to do its job apparently.

Not so scary

2006-08-08T12:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a painting of a scarecrow that I did a few years back. It's one of my favorites.

Summer in the City

2006-08-08T11:30:00.000-07:00

Hey there,
Here's my attempt at a Foster's like cityscape. The layouts for the cartoons at Cartoon Network really got me excited in background design. I enjoy designing enviornments. Hopefully one day I'll get a chance to design the style for my own production.

Giraffatropolis

2006-07-10T14:38:00.000-07:00

What could have been? This is a shot from my student film Evolution. It doesn't star an ape but one does play a supporting role in it.
If I can figure out how to post videos I'll put it up on this site. If anybody out there can give me some tips I'd appreciate it.

Zoobreak

2006-07-10T14:31:00.000-07:00

This one is for a pitch that Susy Ruiz and I were developing. By no coincidence it also involved primates.

Chimps Ahoy

2006-07-10T13:37:00.000-07:00

I noticed all the cool kids were getting a blogger site and I decided it's about time I join the party.
This is a background for a short film I was creating about a couple of my favorite subjects, monkeys and pirates.

The Death Star

2006-07-10T12:41:00.000-07:00

Like the Death Star this blog site is not yet fully operational.
Check back in a couple of days.
Thanks,
El X