ILLUSTRATION

NEU DE PRIMAVERA

Author & illustrator

An illustrated picturebook on friendship, loneliness, and acceptance. Awarded with a Highest Honour Roll at Ramon Llull Universitat on 2024, it was presented at La Casa del Llibre de Rambla Catalunya, and was very well received by the general public, university academics, and especially the children, who really enjoyed the book as well as the interactive games we organized around it.

Children's book cover titled 'Nuevo de Primavera' by Judith Tarrés, featuring an illustrated deer and a bird in a colorful, springtime forest scene with flowers and green foliage.

This picturebook is looking for an editorial home, if you are interested in publishing it, contact me for more info!

judithtarres@gmail.com

A woman stands on a stage speaking to an audience in a bookstore or library. There is a large screen behind her displaying a digital image of a stag with antlers, colors of purple and pink, set against a mountain landscape. The background includes a decorated banner with the text 'Casa del Libro' and various colorful logos.

Inside a bookstore with shelves filled with books. There are signs and promotional displays, including posters for children's story sessions and cultural events. Customers are browsing the shelves.

A plush blue and red bird, a plastic reindeer figure, and a children's book titled 'Neu de Primavera' are on a red surface, with a blurred background.

Child with curly blonde hair reading a colorful children's book on a wooden floor.

A woman sitting on the floor in a cozy room reading a storybook to two children who are sitting on the floor facing her. There are toys and books around, and large windows in the background with trees outside.

Images taken during the book’s presentation and activities at La Casa del Libro de Rambla Catalunya, BCN. And images from the activity done at Momo school, BCN.

A character design sheet of a reindeer with various sketches showing different angles and expressions, including full-color and black-and-white line drawings.

Left side: A clay relief sculpture of a deer with antlers. Right side: A black and white stencil or print of a deer with antlers on white paper.

Illustration of several purple and orange birds called 'Cenantura vulgar' flying and perched on branches against a light background.

Development of the picturebook style and its protagonist characters.

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RAMEN FOR TWO

Art Director. Lead Concept Artist.

Watercolor illustration of a young woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, and freckles, looking into the distance with a cloudy sky background.

CHARACTER DESIGN

A cozy kitchen with wooden cabinets, green tile backsplash, and various kitchen utensils hanging on the wall. There is a stove, a sink, a corkboard with notes, and decorative plants, including a large potted plant with red flowers.

A bowl of instant ramen noodles with two soft-boiled eggs, a piece of cooked meat, and seaweed.

“Ramen For Two” is a 3D animated shortfilm about love and food. In this project I was responsible in helping visualize the two art styles that define our story, a stylized but defined painterly style for the cooking scenes, and a less defined watercolour style for the protagonist’s memories.

Explorations, expressions and final designs and turnarounds for the three protagonists

A collection of character design sketches including human facial expressions, hairstyles, body proportions from different angles, and hand and arm drawings, along with details of tattoos, piercings, and body markings.

A collection of kitchen knives with different blade sizes and handles, placed on a white background.

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A large kitchen knife with a wooden handle and a broad, curved blade.

A black skillet pan with a handle, viewed from above.

A painted cooking pot with orange and purple patterns on a black surface.

Six different decorative bowls with various patterns and colors.

Explorations and final designs of some of the kitchen props, that would later be used as reference for the shape language in modeling, and for the materials and visual design in textures & shading.

Watercolor portrait of a young woman with dark curly hair, some of it styled in braids with gold rings, against a cloudy sky background.

ENVIRONMENT & PROPS

Designs used for modelling & final film art

THUMBNAILS

Visual style development, as well as lighting and shading reference

Watercolor-style digital portrait of a smiling young woman with red hair, wearing a black sleeveless top, with butterfly and floral sketches on the wall behind her.

A girl and a boy sleep side by side in bed, with the girl sleeping on her stomach and the boy on his side, both peacefully resting.

Watercolor illustration of two women arguing, with one having dark blue curly hair and a white sleeveless top, and the other with blonde hair and a green t-shirt, set against a vibrant splashed background of reds, yellows, and blues.

Collage of various images including digital illustrations of two women with three different hair styles, a realistic drawing of two dogs sitting in a field, a botanical illustration of colorful flowers with labels, a vintage black and white butterfly diagram labeled 'Papallones Catalanes,' a steaming bowl of ramen with two sunny side up eggs, and a black and white drawing of various butterflies.

Chosen kitchen design from one of the main shots perspective, and 2d art for the final film.

A large, gray, rusty trash can with a lid resting nearby, with an illustration indicating the lid is about to be placed on the trash can.

An abstract watercolor painting of a person's face, featuring a detailed eye with tears, a nose, and partial facial features, with blue and brown handwritten text on the right side.

Watercolor illustration of two hands reaching toward each other, one with darker skin and the other with lighter skin, against a background of abstract water drip patterns.

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Sónar + D: Bèsties del 2023

Author. All aspects.

A computer-generated scene with a white tiger lying on a rock in a calm body of water, with trees in the background, during sunset. There are two smaller images: one of a child interacting with a tablet in front of a screen showing a tiger, and another of a screen displaying an image of a tiger in a landscape.

“Bèsties del 2023” is an interactive project that was presented at the 30th anniversary of Sónar + D. It consists of an interactive AR alongside a 3d animated shortfilm, that tackles the theme of massive animal exctinction through the lens of fantasy, building an interactive bestiary that follows the story of 10 endangered species.