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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

Brazilian Flash Animated Urban Projection

aaron — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:09:06 +0000

Here’s a cool application of Flash animation – urban projection. This piece was directed for MTV Brazil by vjsuave, who had help on the animation front from Dante Zaballa.

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:

Brandão Fuels Trunk Train

aaron — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:14:46 +0000

Copa Studio’s creative director Zé Brandão has been writing and directing a big order of Tromba Trem (Trunk Train) episodes for Brazil’s AnimaTV. I just love the production and character design in this series. Here’s a new trailer that includes material from the first 6 episodes.

Chico & Rita – A New Toon Boom Feature Film

aaron — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:43:54 +0000

A new 2D feature film out of Spain is gathering some strong critical reviews. Chico & Rita is set in 1948, and we follow two music lovers through a worldwide love affair that stretches across Cuba, New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. The project was rotoscoped at Lightstar Studios in Brazil using Toon Boom Harmony, and HoBSoft built the pipeline. The US premiere was held at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, after which the Hollywood Reporter posted a glowing review, while somehow also slighting the plot as “paper-thin.” The 90-minute film was directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando and here’s the trailer.

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.

Rio’s Copa Studio Boards the Tromba Trem

aaron — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:30:29 +0000

The crew at Rio-based Copa Studio recently produced this new series for AnimaTV, the Brazilian network. Tromba Trem (Trunk Railway) is a co-production with TV Brasil and TV Cutura, and it follows an elephant who has lost his memory and his pals who ride on a steam train. What you see below was written and directed by Zé Brandão.

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.