I'm Alejandro Grilli J., a Chilean visual designer and creative coder who enjoys working in cultural and educational projects. Below is a selection of mostly personal projects I have worked on. You may contact me via alejandro¶agj.cl (replace ¶ with @).
Ten illustrations of different mythical beings of Chilean folklore, created in school for a book called 'Dictionary of mythological beings in Chile'.
Moving the mouse around the image reveals portions of what's underneath, but what is there is constantly changing. Uses Flash.
An evocative piece named after a neuropsychological condition in which the person is unable to remember faces. In this work, Google Image Search is used to obtain random pictures of faces on the fly.
A mood piece animated out of sequences of photographs.
Interactive artwork commissioned by Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, project for which I was in charge of software programming. The Adobe AIR application interprets motion captured by a camera and displays reactive visuals and audio on a large projection. Design by Sebastián Skoknic, support by Francisco Fuentes.
A web version was also developed, which is available at their website by clicking on the number '05' and then on 'Juega!'. Requires a webcam.
Prototype for my undergraduate thesis project. An experimental videogame that offers the barest elements for making visual compositions, and attempts to evaluate their compositive parameters.
Click on the animated picture to start. In the center, a canvas that can be filled with the circles to the right, by drag-and-dropping them. Below, a rough (and inaccurate, in this prototype) analysis of some compositive values: color temperature, symmetry, visual rhythm, and visual accent.
A Flash video game of narrative exploration. Click with the mouse to look around, and discover a bit about the character you embody and the situation they're in (both of which may change on different playthroughs).
Video for a rather improvised song made by me and Matt Peter. Completed in two days, it uses old, grainy family photos to create patterns that alternately reveal and obscure their subjects, culminating with a somewhat narrative display of nostalgia.
A simple music video for a friend's (Matt Peter) song. Footage was captured around my neighborhood with a camcorder.
A cookbook for children, project for which I worked as art director and layout designer.
A short film depicting a young girl's little ritual to cast away her troubles, wherein the camcorder itself serves as her witness.
A game controlled by a single key (spacebar), which makes a perpetually running character jump. Uses Flash.
Designed around simplicity of controls, but difficulty of execution.
(Playthrough video by Alexey Zubkov.)
Animated short on mankind's relationship with its natural surroundings, and the destructive potential of technology.
