@ricard_badia

21/5/2018

1. What's your story? Where are you from?

Hi I'm Ricard, a 29 years old designer and animator from Barcelona. But I moved to London a year and a half ago to work with Animade.

2. Tell us about your aesthetic.

Shiny and colourful, I like to create funny or cute characters with simple rounded shapes.

3. What is your favourite medium and why?

Cinema 4D is my second life, it is an amazing software that allows me to do almost everything I have in mind. And its massive! I’ll probably never learn how to use all it's tools. Recently I've started playing with Octane, it improves my workflow a lot with great and shiny results.

4. What is your artistic process like?

Usually I spend a lot of time sketching random shapes and objects until I have an interesting character to explore. Then I try to imagine what could happen to it for the animation. Once I have a clear idea, then it is just about spending hours modelling, texturizing, animating and rendering.

5. Who and/or what inspires your work?

Stuff from my childhood, electronic devices, pipes, tubes... I'm constantly imagining faces on inanimate objects. Discovery's “How it's made”. Ah! and Dieter Rams designs are sick!

6. What role does art play in your life? How does it change the way you view the world?

As a designer art brings me a lot of resources and knowledge that helps me to achieve my goals. It is a tool for my job, I don't consider myself an artist.

7. Where did you study?

I've studied graphic design in BAU, an amazing design school located in Barcelona.

8. Where do you see yourself in five years?

I'm really happy right now, I love my work and I have enough spare time to create my personal stuff while I'm still learning, so I hope I will be in a similar situation.