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.