A new hero is born...

I really don't know how this came to be. It started with this one drawing I liked and, next thing you know, I had the video done.

Can you feel the Birdman, baby?

4 and kickin'

Hey pals. Vacations are over. Time to shut up and nut up.

Here's a little 4-second clip I was asked to make for Channel Frederator's 4-year birthday. Just a fun, quick and dirty idea. Don't blink or you'll miss it. I didn't have to put some sound though. Boo-hoo.

Happy days to y'all.

Film on film

The São Paulo International Film Festival is happening as we speak. This year, they called in awesome graffiti/fine art duo "OSGEMEOS" to draw the poster for the Fest.

Luckily, we at Birdo Studio got a crack at animating this opening vignette. I got to do the biking cycles, the frontal close-up at the beginning and the firecracker being shot. Fun, fun, fun.

Congrats to Amir Admoni, the very talented director of this vignette, and Lu and Paulo, my two trusty animation directors.

Oh! And good Animation Day to y'all. (Why isn't it Animator's Day? Probably for the same reason most people love Beauty and Beast but don't know who Glen Keane is. I guess...).

33ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo from Birdo Studio on Vimeo.

Production: Leon Cakoff
Direction: Amir Admoni

Character Animation: Birdo
Animation Direction: Luciana Eguti e Paulo Muppet
Animators: Pedro Eboli, William Iamazi Ferro, Rafael Gallardo
Assistant Animator: Fernando Finamore

Compositing: Amir Admoni
Sound Design: Andre Abujamra

Based on the original art from "OSGEMEOS"

My life as a teenage girl

Howdy there. Fresh from Birdo Studio, here's a commercial for "lday pads" or whatever they're called.

Animation was all done in Flash, as usual, and I animated about the first 10 seconds of the girl character and the big cloud of stuff at the end. I had Paulo Muppet's great animatic to work on top and both his and Lu Eguti's direction throughout the thing. It was a joy and I just loved how the whole spot turned out.

Cheers and out.

Sempre Livre Teen from Birdo Studio on Vimeo.

Credits:

Production: Birdo
Direction: Birdo - Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet

Animators: Paulo Muppet, Pedro Eboli, William Iamazi Ferro, Bruno Hamzagic, Luciana Eguti
Assistant Animators: Bruna Brito, Gustavo Teixeira, Ana Rocha
Compositing: Luciana Eguti

Sound Design: Cromo.Sonica

Client: Johnson&Johnson Brasil
Agency: Samurai
Creative director: Marcos Skuropat
Project Manager: Camila Alvarenga

Doodlefest

Sketches on Flash. It is what it is.

Hunter Thompson Zombie

Graham had this idea.
Because zombies can come in any shape or form.

Brazilian Hip Hop

Hey folks. Some actual work in here, for a change.

We finished this at the studio a week or two ago it just premiered on MTV this week. It's a music video for a Brazilian artist called Marcelo D2, and he's pretty big over here in these parts.

All the filming was done by Johnny Araujo and the designs/animation by us.

I'm especially happy with how some stuff I did came out, like the 2 devil girls, the TV head, the pink hand coming out of the guy's coat, the alligator, the really quick scenes in the swimming pool and the quick costume changes in the end.

It was a fun gig, very loose and fast. As usual, animation direction was done by Paulo Muppet and Luciana Eguti. Rafael Gallardo and William Yamazi also brought in their animation chops.

Pode Acreditar (Meu Laiá Laiá) from Birdo Studio on Vimeo.

Edit: Vimeo version up now. Yay!

Good Ol' Zombies

Just to get back into the rhythm.

Old characters, new design

My computer lives again. But it's suffering from severe amnesia. So revisiting old ideas seems appropriate.

Mac flu

My home computer is sick. I hope my files don´t die a horrible death.

Hellooooo

A little animated avatar I made for Tami (aka The Missus). She really is this nice all the time.

Young grasshopper

Little better now.
Sometimes all you need on a cold Sunday night is some warm rice with egg-flavoured furikake sprinkled all over.




Yum. Life's good.

Touch me, I'm sick.

I feel sick today.
My hypochondria is killing me.

From the files

So, work's been pretty nice lately at the studio. The bosses got a couple of exciting projects down on the horizon, including one that's very personal and dear to me.

For your time, here are some images I did for a job that, unfortunately, didn't see the light of day. Poor drawings. Crying in the darkness. Good thing we got them blog thingies.

Cheers and out.

Great games of my wonder years

Dig yourself! Lazarus, dig yourself!



As seen here.