About

Hello,

My name is Luis X. Garcia. Right now I am a college student in Philadelphia studying Music Composition and Animation. I'm from Hayward, California (Near San Francisco). When I was a kid my first drawings would always be me in stick-figure form looking like a hero character. Later on, I started drawing fan pictures of these cartoon characters, music groups, and trains (I'm also a rail fan). It was until 7th grade that I figured I would start to create my own ideas and create art in different styles, such as paint, woodblock printing, sculpture and crafts.

Examples of artwork: Unfortunately most of my work is left at home in California but these are works that come from my sketchbooks that I have with me, I'll get my others soon.

Influences:
1. "The Three Caballeros"; one thing I like about movies is how they share cultures around the world and one movie that I think is great at that is a Disney Movie called "The Three Caballeros," This movie was the first I've seen to represent Mexico and show the world its history and many cultures, with Donald Duck, José Carioca, & Panchito Pistoles as featured characters and hosts. During the late years of WWII, Walt Disney, Lilian Disney, and his close team (later known as: El Grupo) journeyed on a project to save Walt Disney Studios from going out of business; they were going to travel around Latin and South America and create and a documentary/animation film based on what they researched on their trip. This trip helped them create "Saludos Amigos" and "The Three Caballeros" and their studio survived to this day. These films were of the first feature-length animations/documentary using research to represent, Mexico, Brazil, and the rest of South America as well as correcting other animation studios' past culturally incorrect cartoons. Many following Disney films from those years have been made with inspiration from other cultures such as the Lion King, and the new Mickey Mouse shorts. I sometimes feel like it would be my duty someday to represent a culture through a film and I would want to make sure that I won't make any mistakes.

2 & 3. Hayao Miyazaki & Joe Hisaishi; when I was a kid, the first Ghibli movies I saw were "Castle in the Sky" & "Kiki's Delivery Service." I fell in love with these movies, practically everything about them, the music, the stories, the characters, settings, even the animation of objects in collision. The theme of Castle in the Sky has often been my most favorite piece all my life because it's so simply written and fits perfectly into the film, this made me admire the composer Joe Hisaishi. To think that Miyazaki-san visualized everything in his stories, even the setting (he's also a very good background artist) it seemed so much fun in how he worked in creation of these movies. It's been years before I saw both movies again in high school and it made me decide I want to be part of something like this whether in music or animation, both if I can.