Though highly experimental and underground in nature and distribution the series gradually became a success in his native Guadalajara.
While working on Penumbra Alvarado embarked on the production of an independent animation project named Sonámbulo.
[2] This silent short is based on Robert Wiene's expressionist film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.
In 2004 he was invited to attend the Blender Conference in Amsterdam where he presented his project Roboto, a series of ten shorts about robots.
[4] His most ambitious project until now has been Murnau the Vampire, the first Mexican animation film realized on DVD format.