For last year’s Brazilian Resfest event, Birdo Studio was called upon to bring the official festival poster to life. The Resfest team had commissioned Rafael Grampá to illustrate the poster, which featured a bird grasping an onion-like vegetable. The Birdo team, lead by animation directors Luciana Eguti and Paulo Muppet, then animated this promotional short below in Flash, and then Eguti composited the final assembly in After Effects. Animation was handled by Gustavo Teixeira and Rafael Gallardo.

For a high-resolution version of the short, head over to the Birdo site.

Fons Schiedon, a designer/director residing in Amsterdam, recently partnered with the band Voicst on a music video. Feel Like a Rocket was directed and designed by Schiedon, and animated “traditionally” in Flash, set against backgrounds rendered in Illustrator, Photoshop and Maya. The project was completed in five weeks, thanks in part to the Sao Paolo-based team at BIRDO, who helped on the character animation front, much as they had on Schiedon’s 2006 13-episode run of Mobbed for MTV.