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Unsustainable Growth Drives Brido’s Escalade

aaron — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:33:03 +0000

The latest animated short from the Brazillian team at Birdo focuses on the topic of sustainable consumption. Using an alegorical format, directors Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet tell the tale of a competitive population living wrecklessly on a cube-shaped island. Character animation was produced with Flash. Full credits below for their short, titled Escalade.

CREDITS
Direction: Luciana Eguti e Paulo Muppet
Script, Storyboard and Design: Paulo Muppet
2D Animation: Paulo Muppet, Pedro Eboli, Luciana Eguti
Animation Assistants: Rafael Gallardo, André Nakao
3D Animation and Modeling: Luciana Eguti, Antonio Linhares
Compositing: Luciana Eguti, Antonio Linhares
Production Assistent: Flávia Luz
Original Soundtrack: Daniel Tauszig
Sound Design/Mixing: Guile Oliveira
Voices: Bruno Peras, Guile Oliveira
Thanks to Fernando Peehalho, Amir Admoni, Guilherme Azem, Cayto Trivellato, Milton Miné
2012

BIRDO Celebrates Brazilian Novelist Andrade

aaron — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:23:17 +0000

Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet and Céu D’Ellia all directed this new short coming out of BIRDO. It’s titled Paulicéia – Mário de Andrade, “a tribute to one of the greatest Brazilian writers of all time.” All of the character animation was produced with Flash.

CREDITS
Direction: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet & Céu D’Ellia
Production: Céu D’Ellia – NUPA
Script: João Spacca
Character Design: Laurent Cardon and Workshop NUPA
Animation Production Services: BIRDO
Animation Direction: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet
Production Assistant: Flávia Luz
2D Animation: Paulo Muppet, Pedro Eboli
Animation Assistants: Amora Bettany, Ana Paula Indalêncio, André Nakao, Bruno Tedesco, Heloisa Midori, Jonas Brandão, Gustavo Ardito Teixeira.
Background Design: Rafael Gallardo
3D modelling and animation: Antonio Linhares, Luciana Eguti
Compositing: Antonio Linhares, Luciana Eguti
Music and Sound Design: Fabio Góes
Based on Original Music by Iara Rennó
Mário de Andrade: Pascoal da Conceição
Macunaíma: Hugo Possolo

Birdo Team Animates Global Warming Short

aaron — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:24:39 +0000

Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet at Brazil’s Birdo Studio directed this new global warming short. It was submitted for a contest organized by the Brazilian environmental office, and it ended up winning the top prize. The short is titled Box:

Birdo Helps Coffee Bean Tech Evolve

aaron — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:19:14 +0000

Drawing from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s pioneering work on the concept of evolution, the Brazilian studio Birdo crafted this animated business parable. It’s titled Evolve, a spot for the Californian company Coffee Bean Technology, and it was designed and directed by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet. Muppet had help on the animation front from Pedro Eboli, Antonio Linhares, William Iamazi Ferro and Rafael Gallardo.

Birdo Deposits Banco Mercedes-Benz Spot

aaron — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:18:07 +0000

Here’s a new spot from the Brazilian studio Birdo. It’s for Bank Mercedes-Benz (who knew there was such a thing?), and the agency Salem. It’s simply titled Truck, and it was directed by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet. The two had help on the animation from Rafael Gallardo, Pedro Eboli and William Iamazi Ferro.

Birdo Kicks Off São Paulo Film Festival

aaron — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:00:53 +0000

The talented team at Brazil-based Birdo Studio produced the opening film from this year’s São Paulo International Film Festival, which is underway and continues until November 5th. The Flash-animated sequence was directed by Amir Admoni and character design by Os Gemeos. Animation direction was handled by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet, while animators Pedro Eboli, William Iamazi Ferro and Rafael Gallardo took the Flash animation reigns.

Birdo Team Frees Teenage Girl

aaron — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:00:52 +0000

Check out this new spot for Sempre Livre Teen, a sanitary napkin product by Johnson & Johnson, Brasil. This 2D ad, which looks and moves beautifully, was animated enitirely in Flash and was directed by Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet at Birdo Studio. I spotted this on the blog of an animator on the project, Pedro Eboli, who was joined by animators William Iamazi Ferro and Bruno Hamzagic. The agency overseeing the spot, titled My Life as a Teenage Girl, was Samurai.

Frito Lay Flashes Little Bright Eyes

aaron — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:59:31 +0000

The Frito-Lays campaign we mentioned earlier this month has revealed another Flash-animated short. Little Bright Eyes was designed, storyboarded and directed by Berlin-based Fons Schiedon for Frito-Lay Dips and Chips project titled Made For Eachtother. The short was animated in Flash, with After Effects compositing. The project came to life by way of Patricia Claire and PostPanic. The animation team was comprised of Birdo‘s Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet along with assistant animators Pedro Eboli and Rafael Gallardo. Goodby, Silverstein & Partners lead the campaign. Since our last post, there’s also been a few new shorts from this campaign revealed at our sister-site Lineboil.com.

Birdo Thinks Black

aaron — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:17:14 +0000

The gang at Birdo Studio in Brazil has employed Flash to bring a new video to life. All of the character animation in this throw-back style short, titled Black Thin King, was created in Flash, and directed by CISMA (Denis Kamioka). Animation direction was handled by Paulo Muppet and Luciana Eguti and the piece was animated by Muppet, Pedro Eboli and Rafael Gallardo. The video was created to promote OCB’s blackthinking.com site.

CHF Directory Done Right

aaron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:36:24 +0000

We’ve had an excellent response to the launch of the CHF Studio Directory, with nearly 100 studios and artists submitting profiles in the 2 weeks since it went live.

Some profiles are bare bones, while others take full advantage of the directory functionality. Birdo Studio, who are based in Sao Paulo, did just that, inserting their studio logo, a YouTube reel and their RSS feed so we can keep track of their artistic assault on the world.

Drop into the Directory and fill out your own profile or update an existing one.