I’m Fernando Puig, and I’m graduating at 23 years old with a B.F.A in Fine arts at Ringling College of Art and Design. I studied Computer Animation and made a 2 minute thesis film called LogBoy.

I was born, on January 23, 1995, and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, and as a small child I spent a lot of time watching cartoons. Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows, and anything by Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street, etc.) are my earliest influences, and they still inspire my art to this day.
These influences helped grow my affinity to cartoony animation and weird, goofy, and strange characters and ultimately my art style and sense of humor. My passion revolves around making things that will make me laugh and/or I will love. Whatever I’m working on I strive to put in as much as my time and effort to make my projects as unique and polished as possible.

Senior year of high school, after exploring many different options to further education, I decided to apply to Ringling College of Art and Design for Computer Animation. The idea of studying animation and making my own short film was exactly the kind of college experience I wanted, so I made it my goal. At RCAD I learned the inner workings of how industry standard programs are used to produce visual media. I would have never expected to learn so many different programs and adapt to them with ease. Studying at RCAD gave me a thick skin for critiques and deadlines, time efficiency skills and patience for my speed of improvement. This helped me become a more skilled and stronger artist, which allows me to take on trickier and tougher projects. Being at the school also broadened my ideas and helped me become a more creative person overall.

Pinocchio’s influence on me had not faltered because I would make a short film, decades later, about a little wooden boy: LogBoy! I wanted to make something that encompasses my artistic sensibilities and sense of humor. Creating the film allowed me to explore my deep rooted influences and create a love letter to my childhood love of wacky and hilarious cartoons. LogBoy was one of the few films picked by the Department of Computer Animation and other guest artists to represent the senior work coming out of the school at the “Best of Ringling 2018” show.

In the future, I see myself still wanting to experiment and grow as an artist, whilst working with other artists to make projects in the industry come to fruition as high quality and as true to the intended nature as possible. Despite where the future will take me professionally or physically I will probably never stop drawing cartoons.