My 2011 Demo Reel. It´s what I´ve done in the past year between tuna sandwiches and foosball games.
The song is by the great surf-music brazilian band, Retrofoguetes.These are the 2 short films that I did during my year studying Classical Animation at VFS. To watch them in HD (which is my advice) you have to go to my vimeo channel.
I talked more detailed about each of them in this post.
Esses foram os 2 curtas de animação que fiz durante meu ano de estudos na VFS. Vou deixar eles na seção Animation, mas pra ver em HD só no vimeo mesmo…e a alguns posts abaixo eu falei mais detalhadamente sobre os filmes, tá tudo em inglês mas eu prefiro pensar que tá tudo bem assim do que ter que traduzir tudo de novo, esse lance de postar em inglês ou português vai contra a minha política de simplicidade e menos trabalho pra mim.
Reading Kills (classical animation)
The Almighty Adventures of the Fantastic Duo (flash)
I made this comic to say goodbye to the CA78 class and also the blog we created. We made autobiographical comics throughout the year depicting our lives in Vancouver, sadly the blog didn´t get updated during our final films (which was predictable but we denied to accept), but you can check the comis we managed to do here. In this comic there´s not all my classmates, but there´s even one of our teachers, here´s a hint of who´s the guy.
If you only read in english skip this post…because it´s in portuguese (or try google translator, it´s always funny).
Minha farofisse de postar em inglês vai ter pausas enquanto eu continuar postando tiras do Capitão. Essa volta já tava programada, mas o escasso tempo ano passado não me permitiu desenhar tiras novas. Como eu planejei tentar seguir uma cronologia, resolvi incluir essa longa pausa na história também….história que tinha parado a muito tempo atrás…mais ou menos aqui.
After a whole year of not showing up in the blog very often I can finally give an excuse for it, I was doing 2 animation shorts this year, and to prove it, here goes some images with explanation words.
Reading Kills was an idea that I had in 2007 (I believe) after watching Don Hertzfeldt´s “Rejected”. At that time I had no idea how to animate, so I kept the idea in an old paper that luckily didn’t get lost until 2011 when I entered VFS and had to work on a classical animated film.
The whole short took around 5 months (5 months of deadlines!) to be completed, same period that I renounced to shave my beard until completition of the film.
The film doesn’t have a main character, it just follows the plotline (self explained by the title) with its consequences. It was great to work like this, but also suicidal to have 17 different characters and 14 backgrounds (plus all the layers), for example I have some layers of characters that are just pupils, moustaches, eyelids and so on…these were due my obsession of not having the lines boiling as the character moved.
Another thing that I worked a lot during the film, were the FX, I believe I used all the principles by drawing fires, smokes, water, explosions and clown jokes (this is not FX…good job, you’re paying attention).
I believe sanity and some laughs after overnights were brought by all the smears and multiples that were applied on the animation, they were the sunshine after those long nights and overnights.
Another good part of the work was to deal with the lip-sync for the characters, since they were going to talk gibberish I created “fake” dialogues to guide me through the process of drawing mouths and making it look like they really had a message behind all the nonsense they’re saying.
So the film was finished after these steps: storyboard, layout, rough animation, clean animation (done with a brush pen), scanning, Toon Boom, photoshop, sleeping pills (paying attention, right?), After FX and finally Premiere.
Now for the Flash Film
The Almighty Adventures of the Fantastic Duo was done in Flash and After FX. I only had 1 month to develop the story and finish it, in the mean time I had to learn Flash, which would be an important tool to finish this….FLASH film.
I only noticed the strong influence of Flapjack after finishing it and some people telling me while I layed on the ground unconscious. I guess the whole concept of 2 buddies in the sea inside a rum barrel looking for adventure was a clue.
My main goal was to keep it simple, only 2 characters and 1 background (even though I ended up with 3 characters, I know…too much drama for 1 more character). I had the help of great animator Fernanda Ribeiro when I was giving up with the idea of having nicely colored detailed close ups of the characters, she volunteered to colour nicely my illustrations and the result was amazing.
Other than that I enjoyed working with flash (it was really…FAST to learn *turum-pa). I ended up doing the sound for the film, which also brought some sunshine for my nights but not free breakfast the day after at the nearby coffee shop as I tried to explain the lady.
Anyway, this whole year should be seen through a learning curve graphic that I don’t intend to draw, but you should picture a sharp curve up, and up should be good.
The films will be online next week, so….Behold!
Since I just graduated from Classical Animation in VFS. I´m gonna start posting some assignments that I did throughout the year. This one was assigned to start the design of characters for our final films, but as during that time I was still confronting my ideas about it, I decided to create 2 character that could easily be used in any idea I had, unfortunately they didn´t make even as extras in it (my film ended up with 16 characters). I don´t plan to send these guys to a limbo of character, so I hope I have an idea for a film with them someday. Anyway, here are the studies I made, with: Expressions, Body poses and Rotation for the friendly homeless and the extremely fancy Kenny G fan.
Apesar do meu sumiço eventual por aqui, o meu “live action eu” tem estado bem ocupado. Há pouco mais de 2 meses atrás comecei o curta de animação que é o projeto final do curso, e como grandes projetos trazem grandes responsabilidades, todos os deadlines devem ser cumpridos (e não são poucos: character design, storyboard/animatic, layout, rough animation).
Hoje eu começo a fase de clean up, onde todo o esforço pode ser jogado por água abaixo, ou um tiro no pé, ou um tiro no pé debaixo d´agua, ou algum outro ditado conveniente pro momento. É hora de deixar tudo pronto (fazendo in betweens ao mesmo tempo) pra depois escanear. Vou tentar atualizar mais coisas sobre o curta (ahhh…se eu tivesse uma câmera ou uma preguiça menor de escanear), mas aí vão 2 backgrounds (que vão precisar ser recoloridos). SPOILER! das cenas 3 e 9.
Talvez eu me arrependa, mas revirando uns arquivos resolvi postar umas coisas antigas (da época que photoshop era de outro mundo e corel draw ferramenta de desenho técnico na faculdade), como essas 2 tiras do Homem-Vago, super herói que teve uma vida bem curta, assim como esse momento nostalgico (que pode ser deletado em breve). Boa noite e boa noite.
This is not a big secret or something unusual, or even a process I follow strictly while doing comics (honestly, it´s not good to do comics in only one way), but this particular comic conception was registered in its essence by Andres Tapeton (and his telephone with picture camera in it), and I saw the opportunity of keeping this blog updated while I´m focusing on crying of desperation while doing my animation final film. Ok, let go for the comics.
It´s basically divided in 4 steps:
1 – Drawing the freaking grids for the panels.
2 – Penciling in blue the lines and the baloons.
3 – Drawing the character (still with the blue pencil).
4 – Inking
Not shown here but obviously done in the process:
5 – Scan
6 – Photoshop it
7 – Eat something
8 – Post it
And the final result is here.
Not that exciting, right? But don´t miss next week, I´ll show how I turn scrambled eggs into a Harry Potter cosplay.
Oh, and some behind the scenes, this is where I´m doing comics this year, while not animating (or taking naps, or crying of desperation).
Se tem algo com o qual eu me impressionei esse ano, foi com a pequena mas significante evolução nos desenhos de modelo vivo, ou Life Drawing por aqui, passei literalmente de algo que se assemelhavam a gravuras rupestres à algo que se assemelha a pessoas em um filme live action (filme em que pessoas ficam nuas paradas em poses de 30 seg, 2 e 5 minutos). Não escaneei tudo que tenho por aqui porquê ainda to travando uma luta contra o scanner, mas essa é uma pequena amostra.
