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Tinay Sison
3D Graphic Artist/Illustrator Maria Cristina Sison fondly called by her friends and colleagues as "Tinay", is a 3D Graphics Artist and a Children's book illustrator. She has worked with several Philippine animation studios and post-production studios. She has also illustrated several local children's books already published. |
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Animahenasyon 2009 Awards Night.
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Book launching of the second book Bee Polite from the Dee The Bee Series, with author Joyce Piap-Go.
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Attended SIGGRAPH ASIA 2014 at Shenzen, China
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She graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Advertising at the University of Santo Tomas in 1998. She has almost sixteen years of experience in animation as a 3D graphics artist, including more than five years as a children's book illustrator. After graduating she had a brief stint in stage design and as a trainee/junior artist in a small advertising group. Then, later on, landing an opportunity in 1999 to become as one of the 3D trainees in the now defunct Imagine Asia Studios. She was trained in Softimage then later shifting to Maya. As 3D artist, her skills developed towards creating textures and doing lighting and compositing scenes. Through her skills, she was given the opportunity to become a lead artist in texturing, lighting and compositing to one of the animated short films developed by the studio.
In 2003 she became part of Digital Eye Candy a studio formed by her former superiors from Imagine Asia. The studio worked on the animated movie " Hoodwinked The True Story of Red Riding Hood. " She was one of the lead texture, lighting and compositing artists. She also did some 3D modeling, set dress for some of the environments and developing fur for some furry animal creatures. The movie was produced independently by Blue Yonder Films with Kanbar Entertainment, and The Weinstein Company released the film.
For years to come, she have worked with other local animation and post-production studios as a Senior freelance artist and in-house artist. She considers one of her biggest breaks was when she had the opportunity to direct and develop an animated short film for Glow Animation Studio in 2009. The animated short film was entitled " Edison and The Moths," and it won an award in 2009 Animahenasyon. It paved the way for her to lead and direct other projects. Afterwards, her skills and experience gave her the opportunity to supervise a small group of 3D artists.
While working as a 3D artist, she was also doing children's book illustration on the side. Her first book illustration was right after she graduated from college. It was a textbook for elementary students. It was not until 2008 when she joined an organization called Ang INK or Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan ( Illustrator for Children ), a group of Filipino illustrators wherein she would get the chance to illustrate children's books. Her interest in illustration started long before she landed a job in animation. Her thesis in college was about children's book illustration. She now has several illustrated children's books published locally and some illustrations published in local newspapers. She illustrated the Dee The Bee book series published by Hiyas.
Currently, she works as a freelance 3D artist and children's book illustrator. Though she is still very much interested in doing 3D animation projects, she would like to get more exposure in doing illustration jobs in the future. She considers the creative process in children's book illustration or illustrating more engaging and personalised. Lately, she has also taken the challenge of doing logo designs. She uses traditional mediums like watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, pastels and ink. But nowadays, most of her illustration works are rendered digitally. In 3D she uses Maya, Photoshop for creating textures, Maya Mental Ray and V-ray for rendering, Fusion or After Effects for compositing, and various plug-ins. She is looking forward to becoming part of exciting projects that will help her grow further as a creative artist. If you have one, do not hesitate to approach Tinay.
In 2003 she became part of Digital Eye Candy a studio formed by her former superiors from Imagine Asia. The studio worked on the animated movie " Hoodwinked The True Story of Red Riding Hood. " She was one of the lead texture, lighting and compositing artists. She also did some 3D modeling, set dress for some of the environments and developing fur for some furry animal creatures. The movie was produced independently by Blue Yonder Films with Kanbar Entertainment, and The Weinstein Company released the film.
For years to come, she have worked with other local animation and post-production studios as a Senior freelance artist and in-house artist. She considers one of her biggest breaks was when she had the opportunity to direct and develop an animated short film for Glow Animation Studio in 2009. The animated short film was entitled " Edison and The Moths," and it won an award in 2009 Animahenasyon. It paved the way for her to lead and direct other projects. Afterwards, her skills and experience gave her the opportunity to supervise a small group of 3D artists.
While working as a 3D artist, she was also doing children's book illustration on the side. Her first book illustration was right after she graduated from college. It was a textbook for elementary students. It was not until 2008 when she joined an organization called Ang INK or Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan ( Illustrator for Children ), a group of Filipino illustrators wherein she would get the chance to illustrate children's books. Her interest in illustration started long before she landed a job in animation. Her thesis in college was about children's book illustration. She now has several illustrated children's books published locally and some illustrations published in local newspapers. She illustrated the Dee The Bee book series published by Hiyas.
Currently, she works as a freelance 3D artist and children's book illustrator. Though she is still very much interested in doing 3D animation projects, she would like to get more exposure in doing illustration jobs in the future. She considers the creative process in children's book illustration or illustrating more engaging and personalised. Lately, she has also taken the challenge of doing logo designs. She uses traditional mediums like watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, pastels and ink. But nowadays, most of her illustration works are rendered digitally. In 3D she uses Maya, Photoshop for creating textures, Maya Mental Ray and V-ray for rendering, Fusion or After Effects for compositing, and various plug-ins. She is looking forward to becoming part of exciting projects that will help her grow further as a creative artist. If you have one, do not hesitate to approach Tinay.
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