Summary
Cristian Montes Lynch is a storyboard, concept and graphic novel artist who began illustrating He-Man magazines when he was 18 years old, studied Art and Advertising and worked as creative and art director in several advertising agencies at Santiago of Chile and Barcelona for 12 years.
Since then, he's made numerous storyboards, sci-fi, fantasy and book covers, character designs and advertising illustrations.
He runs Cirugía Motion Arts, an animation studio specialized in advertising animatics and storyboards that gives services to clients in US, Europe, UAE and KSA.
Cristian Montes Lynch has published several graphic novels and illustrated books in France, Chile, Spain and US and he is the author of e-Dem, a sci-fi novel turned into a graphic novel published in 2012
Skills
Software proficiency
Reel
Productions
- BookLe Crime d'Halloween
- Year2024
- RoleIllustrator and Art Director
- CompanyEditions Paquet
- BookPIGAFETTA
- Year2024
- RoleIllustrator and Art Director
- CompanyEditorial Arcano IV
- BookPIGAFETTA
- Year2022
- RoleIllustrator and Art Director
- CompanyEditions Paquet
- BookPIGAFETTA
- Year2022
- RoleIllustrator and Art Director
- CompanyEdiciones Cascaborra
- MovieLeftraro
- Year2017
- RoleConcept Artist
- CompanyRadar Pictures
- Commercial / AdvertisementThe Judgement of History
- Year2014
- RoleIllustrator
- CompanyGrey Group madrid
- BookÆnigma
- Year2014
- RoleCover Illustrator and book trailer producer, director and illustrator
- CompanyCirugía
- BookVespera
- Year2007
- RoleCover Illustrator
- CompanyMinotauro
- Booke-Dem Book 1 UPROOTING
- Year2012
- RoleAuthor, writer, concept artist, illustrator
- CompanyMythica
Experience
- Art Director at Porta DMB&BSantiago Chile, ChileAugust 1992 - October 1994
Porta has been for around last 30 years the most creative advertising agency in Chile winning the most of international awards in this country every year.
I work ther for two years, I won a pair of national awards on graphic advertising contests. - Art Director at J.W. ThompsonSantiago Chile, ChileNovember 1994 - April 1995
Thompson was the last advertising agency I work in in Chile after leaving to Barcelona.
I managed Ford Company acount there and being just a young art director I could stablish a very good relationship with that client who was feeling a lack of attention and service by the agency in Chile. - Creative Director at Bis & AssociatesBarcelona, SpainMay 1996 - February 1998
Bis was a little advertisng agency at Barrcelona, part of IN an european international advertising network.
- Art Director and Illustrator at Euphon EventsBarcelona, SpainFebruary 1998 - April 2002
Euphon Event was one of the most important event production companies at Barcelona producing them parks, hotels, universal exhibitions, conventions, museums, etc., all over the world, as part of the enterteinment industry developed at the catalan capital city from 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
- Illustrator at SaloSantiago Chile, ChileOctober 2005 - April 2006
Salo was a chilean publishing house behind the card game "Mitos y Leyendas" (Myths and legends). I illustrated some of their cards, just turning bock in Chile after ten years living at Barcelona.
- Founder and Director at Cirugia Animation StudioSantiago, ChileAugust 2007 - Present
Cirugía (Spanish for Surgery) is a little animation studio specialized on advertising animatics for marketing research, which started based at Santiago / Chile and became an online working team distributed between Viña del Mar (Chile), Chillan (Chile), Sydney and Buenos Aires. After eighy years making advertising animatics mainly for Nestlé Company through their different agencies in Chile, j. W. Thompson, Mc Cann Erickson, Publisis and Ogilvy and Mather, Cirugia won the 2015 Silver Telly Awards on online video cathegory to the book trailer that we made for Ænigma historic fiction novel by Erus Ludus launched in US on 2014.