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Nydia Morales

Nydia Morales               
Studio Art, Concentration in Illustration with a minor in Art History
[email protected]
New York, NY, 10025

Biography

Nydia Morales is an Illustrator and Motion Graphics designer from Manhattan, New York City. While earning her degree, she has won multiple honors and awards, including the Judith Benedict Award and honored on the President's List. She strives to use her Illustration knowledge and apply it to animation and motion graphics in the future, working for Visual Effects Studios or Art Agencies that deal with work in the media industry. Her work explores the concept of line and shapes and how they define two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. She enjoys playing with this idea by breaking three-dimensional forms into flat shapes that can be illustrated traditionally or digitally. Her line of work will keep her home in New York City or potentially grant her a chance to travel to places such as California. In addition, she desires to see the world and experience all types of art, as visiting museums and galleries are one of her favorite pastimes.

Artist Statement

Exploring different mediums allows me to dive into the various dimensions of life. My work explores three-dimensional forms in both abstract and realistic ways. I enjoy playing with a variety of mediums and using two-dimensional shapes to create environments and scenes. My work reflects how I perceive the world and how changing my thinking can change how a form interacts with another in an environment. My creative vision is to use geometry to explore three-dimensional forms in a two-dimensional way and bring life to the forms through animation and motion. My work uses these geometric forms and shows how a seemingly three-dimensional object is made out of two-dimensional shapes that appear that way to the eye because of perspective. The subject of my work can vary from a simple three-dimensional shape to a human figure, which emphasizes the playfulness of my creative vision. Abstraction is a common theme in my work. I enjoy representational art that is not hyper-realistic but gives enough detail to make the viewer perceive the object or form in a specific way. Color is a feature I often play within my work, as I add textures to make the flat colors richer and have more depth. Every color and texture that I use in my work symbolizes a feeling, which makes each piece have a different meaning and serve a different purpose from the next.

Self Portrait (2019)
oil on canvas
16in x 20in
December 12th, 2019
Painting 1
A portrait of me in frontal view, black and white photograph with pink, orange and purple swirls all around me. 

3D Cityscape
Cinema 4D 
Spring 2020
3D Modeling and Animation
Tall buildings with balconies and fire escapes against a sunset background.
 

identity
Watercolor on Arches Watercolor Paper
18in x 20in
Spring 2020
Watercolor I
A self portrait of me in a brown eye, which is on top of a Puerto Rican flag. Rectangular shapes of skin tones are scattered on the flag, which show two hands holding. Inside the eye on the flag, there is a black and white three quarter view portrait, as well as two hands reaching out towards it from each corner of the eye.

Wanna get some ramen?
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects
1080 ppi x 607 ppi
November 12, 2021
Art 423, Advanced Problems in Illustration II
A bowl of ramen sits on a pastel pink background, which is surrounded by the words “Wanna get some” and the r in Ramen is a noodle that has fallen from the ramen.
GIF Animation Version — Use with smart devices to send animated invite to friends and family

Do you want some pizza?
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects
1080 ppi x 607 ppi
Fall 2021
Art 423, Advanced Problems in Illustration II
A pizza box sits on a red background which is open and shows a pizza pie with various toppings and the words “Do you want some pizza?” written around it.
GIF Animation Version — Use with smart devices to send animated invite to friends and family

Cape May Postcard
Adobe Illustrator
4in x 7in
Digital Media I
A top town view of a beach on a sunny day with colorful umbrellas on the sand, and towels, beach balls and footprints everywhere.

Laundry Day Animation Stills
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate
Spring 2020
Multimedia I
An animated duck looks into a washing machine to see that it’s washing a stuffed animal version of a duck that looks similar to itself. The ducks expression changes from neutral to shocked when it realizes and it quacks at the viewer after it realizes.
 

Captured Moments - Springtime 
Adobe Illustrator
18in x 20in
Spring 2020
Advanced Problems in Illustration I
This is a series of snapshots of moments with friends during the Spring season. They feature people doing things such as getting ice cream together, flying kites, blowing bubbles and eating fruits. These illustrations use scans of textures made with ballpoint pens and crayons, and vector shapes that imitate the viewfinder of a camera.
GIF Animation Versions — Animated versions of getting ice cream together, flying kites, blowing bubbles and eating fruits

Book Cover Illustrations
Adobe Photoshop
Spring 2019
Advanced Problems in Illustration I
These book covers are for books called “Because of Winn-Dixie” “Forbidden Love” “Monsters” which are modeled after real books of similar names. 

The Candyman
Cinema 4D
Spring 2020
3D Modeling and Animation
A character made up of various sweets such as donuts, lollipops, wafers and ice cream can be seen against a blue background. It has one eye and a smile made out of rainbow sprinkles.

The Legacy of Nina Simone
Adobe Illustrator
30in x 20in
Spring 2021