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.

Run, Monster, Run

Oh, no! The creature from the blog header...it's alive and wearing underwear!

Run cycle for you lives!





In case you're wondering, it's just a quick and dirty Flash cycle I did tonight. It's all out of whack, but I gotta sleep now. Runs are fun. Cheers.

Anima Moondi!

So, really great news this past weekend. My short "Papercut" got picked as part of the competitive selection in the Anima Mundi festival.

The reason why I'm so excited is that Anima Mundi is the largest animation festival in Brasil (and, if I'm not mistaken, the whole of Latin America too). And, being a Brazilian myself, this is the festival I've been attending for years. It's where I got exposed to the work of some of my favorite animators. Heck, it's where I first saw "Au Bout Du Monde", one of the best shorts ever made.

I'm really happy and more than humbled to be among all these super-talented animation heroes of mine. Makes me almost want to hide my silly little student film. But hey, they got free cocktails. So I'm definitely attending.


Edit:
many, many thanks for Jeff at the VFS Blog for the plug. Just awesome.


And now: Smurfs.

Quick snack

Boredom + 1/2 hour to spare + roomate watching Fast and Furious 4 (4 Fast 4 Furious?) = quick flash nonsense.

New old stuff

Finally finished some freelancing. So, hooray for a little extra time. First, I'm going back to rework some pitches with my good pal Graham. Second, I can do some fun stuff just for kicks.

Tonight, I cleaned up on Flash and composited on After FX an old Vancouver Film School assignment. Mainly because the pencil test I had was way too dark, so you could barely see the animation. But also because it's always fun to have something done quickly.

And because sharing is good, here's my little waterdrop.

Sing-along gang

So, I'm going to a karaoke with some friends and it made me do this little doodle of yours truly. I wasn't too kind.

Cheers, folks.

Pull Shapes!

I had to animate some random abstract shapes on Flash for a freelance job. And since most of the time we're animating characters over at the studio, I thought it would be kind of a dull task. Well, it actually was pretty damn fun. You spend pretty much zero time thinking about the drawing itself, and focus solely on timing and shapes and whatnot. It's a neat exercise.

So, this is not the actual finished job. These shapes are going to be composited into a video. This is just me getting some of the work I've done and putting them together just for fun. It's not in any sort of order or nothing.

And that's about it. Have a good day, folks.


By the way, I just hate how both the H.264 filter and Youtube make everything washed up. Urgh.

Easter egg

So, here's a quick bumper we did over at Birdo Studio for this Easter commercial.

I did the rough animation and most of the cleanup and shadows. Composting and special-egg-fx was handled by my super-talented boss Luciana Eguti, who was also animation director on the piece along with her bearded partner Paulo Muppet. The character design came straight from the client.

Don't blink or you'll miss.

The pride of the Amazon

The most famous Brazilian who's not a soccer player.

An indie and new-raver meet in a bad piece of animation

Ok...first of all, I'm really sorry for this. Like, really.

But I recently saw on Cartoon Brew this website that allows you to make these "instant 3D animations". All you have to do is pick the characters and type in the dialogue.

Of course, the final results are hilariously bad. The models are butt-ugly, the stock animation almost non-existent and the deliveries so deadpan that's almost unbearable.

ALMOST. Because I couldn't resist toying with it for 5 minutes and posting the results.

So, just to be clear: I didn't animate this piece of lameness, I just made up the dialogues. Apologies in advance, folks.