Sike
Directing
Sike is an argentinian illustrator and comic-book artist, working consistenly in animation too since 2018.
His animation career started in 2016 with the videoclip for Tute´s "Palabras Imposibles", a music+animation record project. He didn´t work in animation again till 2018, when he was recruited for Bellolandia´s Deportivo Baby (directed and created by Delfina Perez Adán a.k.a Estampita ) as lead background artist. He worked too as a concept artist in the same studio on an original project called Yorudan District. At the end of those projects Sike was comissioned a short "loop film" for the studio, that came to be ELA (2019) in wich he directed, illustrated and animated.
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In 2019 works as background designer for The Strokes "At the Door" directed by Mike Burakoff and Benjy Brooke, a videoclip that reunited various studios such as Remember Productions and 2Veinte. He worked too for studios like Rudo Co. in projects like Summer Nights (2019), a videoclip for argentinian band SIAMÉS, as background designer. Then came to work as Art Director, Layout and concept artist in various advertisements for the same studio with clients like Absolut, Nike and Adidas.
His latest collaborations include La Niña y el Tsunami, a short film comissioned by United Nations and produced by Aura Studio among others, about a chilean child who survives the 2010 tsunami in the Juan Fernández isle, and Patricio Plaza´s soon to come film "Carne de Dios". In both of them he was in charge of the background designs.
He is currently working on illustration and comic books too, having published three books already: Cartográfica (2019, Estudio Mafia, awarded with the 2022 Trillo Prize ), Memoria Selectiva (2016) and El Teatro Lunar (2012). He collaborated in a few comic anthologies and edited too a bunch of zines.
Known for
Behind the camera5
- 2026Calesita Director, Character Designer, Background Designer
- 2023Flesh of God Background Designer
- 2021The Girl and The Tsunami Background Designer
- 2019Ela Director, Animation
- 2018Palabras Imposibles Script, Animation, Director