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.

I stumbled onto a Flash animated Brazilian music video today that appears to be the South American equivalent to Soulja Boy’s dance sensation Crank That. The Créu Song is by Sérgio Costa, a Brazilian Funk artist who goes by MC Créu, and it was directed by Priscila Vertamatti.

Much like Crank That, the song has inspired scores of people to create their own YouTube dance videos.

Rune Bennicke has joined the ranks of Adam Phillips, Bernard Derriman and Phil Nibbelink - Disney Feature animators who’ve discovered Flash animation. What artists of this caliber typically realize is that Flash can serve as an ink-and-paint program. Both Derriman and Phillips utilize the re-use functionality Flash allows, but Bennicke has done fine without it. Below this Brazilian animator draws “straight ahead” in a re-enactment of 20-seconds from Monty Python’s Bookshop sketch, featuring the voices of John Cleese and Graham Chapman.

Brazilian animation studio Labocine has assembled a 2-minute, Flash-animated promotional film, titled Wilbur, that explains how a feature film can be created with their studio. Animation supervisor Evanildo Pereira and his team have crafted a beautiful piece of Flash animation here - fluid, fun and highly entertaining.

You can also view the Portuguese version.

Brazilian-based TrickOrScript.com has unveiled a series of Flash animation plug-ins. Animators use Flash software in a very specific way, and there’s functionality and repetitive tasks that are unique to our work flow. TrickOrScript.com zeroed in on some of the major ones, including ’squash and stretch,’ a thumbnail viewer, and an interesting take on motion paths.

Link spotted on the Fatkat Animation blog.

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Dimitri Frazao, a student at Cal Arts in Valencia, California, recently posted his senior film One Last Song on YouTube. He animated the short in Flash, composited it in After Effects and then edited it all together in Final Cut Pro.

Frazao, a Brazilian native, also created this short live-action/animation composite test along with fellow Cal Arts students Alex Hirsch and Nick Butera.

A Brazilian Flash animation site called Mundo Canibal seems to have captivated the nation. The site hosts dozens (hundreds?) of short animated clips, all narrated by in a pitched-up screetch that will burst your eardrums. Some of the shorts are topical - making fun of Tom Cruise or Star Wars - but most are original characters.

The most popular shorts have been viewed millions of times, and the most popular, a short called ‘Avaiana de Pau,’ has been seen over 8 million times. It appears the short is about homemade shoes and the pain they can inflict. Most of the shorts seem to rely heavily on poop, screaming, and then more screaming.

The site has seen so much success that they’ve released a DVD filled with 40 of the web episodes and 5 special bonus episodes. They’ve released a short trailer of the DVD that you can view on the site.

Mundo Canibal is also hawking a Flash animation tutorial book written by the brothers Piologo. The cover features one of the characters from Mundo Canibal.

Don’t miss the short Chuck Norris clip. He’s incredibly powerful and focused, and they capture his essence perfectly.

Thanks to Fabio for the story tip.