Ray Huerta.

An artist who has been on a creative journey since the age of seven. It seems that I have always had an interest in fine art and commercial art, from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel with all its swirling figures and colors, to Walt Disney’s 1960s tv show “Wonderful World of Color”.

I was born in Escondido, Ca. and while going through public education I worked in all the artistic mediums that I could get my hands on. I found that I enjoyed them, I even entered many local competitions and won.

My artistic education continued at Palomar college. I took on many artistic courses that I was drawn to in my early years. From life drawing to cartooning and architecture perspective to abstract color painting. But I still had a passion to try other art forms and mediums. So I transferred after two years to The California Institute of the Arts in 1980.

At CalArts I enrolled in the School of Film and Video Character Animation Program. Here I took all my artistic knowledge to communicate an idea on film. But I also found that I was intuitively knowledgeable in color and design. More so in color.
I have worked in character animation, character design, storyboarding, video gaming, color comps, and art director for many years.