Leo Gotlibowski

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Stop Motion projects

The Bone Orchard
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I recently finished a stop motion project (The Bone Orchard) directed and produced by Steven Boe and Witney Boe, for the documentary Mythic Journeys, some of the models that I have designed and made are:

The painted skies, bridge, tombstones and rocks, the cemetery gate, the columns and it´s gargoiles, the tree of life in two scales, the mausoleum and courtyard. I had the plesure of working together with Todd Smith in all these sets, and seing the talented animator, Michael Granberry, and others bring everything to life.

This project was a colaboration of many talents such us the voice overs of Mark Hamill, Tim Curry, Lance Henriksen, and the main puppet caracters created for Brian and Wendy Froud.

The tree Girl (made by Michael Granberry)

Bridge and tomb stones

Tombstones

Tree of life

Gate, gargoiles

Dan Band (Christmas flip flop)

you tube video link

Sancor's Cow Buenos Aires Argentina long ago

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Series of life size sculptures that represent costarrican pre columbian culture.

Costarrican Precolumbian Gold Museum

One of the projects that I am most proud of was the series of real life human indigenous sculptures for the permanet exhibition at the costarrican Precolumbian Gold Museum. Together with my wife Hannie Goldgewicht, we embarked on this wonderfull experience, that took us al the way to the indean reservation of Boruca to studie there fisioligie and fotograph there tribe.

In three months we molded in clay, made plaster molds and made a single resin casts of each of the sculptures used to represent and explain there way of life, traditions, and there skills.

Sculpture commissions.

comercials and events

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Haunted Houses

For some strange reason , eventhough being a very frightfull person, i found myself desinging, sculpting and overseing a series of hounted houses in Argentina, Brazil and Costa Rica from the ground up, inside and out.

Something about me:

I was born in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1965. My family was in the jewelry manufacturing business and from an early age I was introduced to designing, prototyping, moldel making and casting. I was also fascinated by science fiction and animation. finally I found my way to put everything in one bag and started taking all the courses I could find related to my purpouse. I took courses in all art related areas and worked with master sculpture Jorge Seijas, airbrush illustration with Raul Maldonado among others. I experimented with silicon molds, plaster molds, latex masks, foam latex, alginate resin, fiber glass and along the way taught myself 3d cgi animation.
After many years of searching I met Danielle Verse who was, at that point, opening a work shop for a reduce group of artists , I completed the course which emphasized in model making, using various techniques of construction, production design and blue print interpretation. Upon completing the course, Danielle offered me a job and I worked with her many years.
We worked together on commercials, theme parks like the Disney animation festival (Argentina), Buenos Aires zoo, Mar del Plata aquarium and of course movies’, focusing on sculpture.
During the following years I worked as a designer and art director in projects like the haunted house Castello dos Horrores in Recife, Sao Paulo Brazil, Buenos Aires and Aventura Total in San Jose, Costa Rica.
I moved to Costa Rica in 1998 and worked in the advertising industry mostly as an art director and set designer for commercials, events and commissions. In 2002 , together with my wife Hannie Goldgewicht, I was selected to create 9 life size human sculptures for the Museo de Oro Precolombino in. These figures were made to display pre-Colombian gold artifacts. I also made replicas of coins and a variety of gold pieces for the museum.
Last year my family and I moved to Los Angeles. Since my arrival in November I have been working with Steven Boe on a project narrated by Mark Hamill. It is a stop motion documentary called “Mythic Journeys” I also worked with Steven on the 3d max animation as well as creating the life like model for the filming.