Media conglomerates export American culture throughout the world, but other countries often don’t consume that culture in its intended manner. Here’s a great example: a performance that took place yesterday at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Produced in Brazil for just $2.5 million by first-time animation director Luiz Bolognesi, Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury is among the …
New York-based Brazilian filmmaker Guilherme Marcondes (Tyger, Into Pieces) is prepping a new ten-minute mixed-media short Caveirão for …
Brew reader Leo Santos introduced me to the fantastic work of Brazilian animator Daniel Og, who animated this series of eight 30-second …
It’s been a while since the last installment of Animated Fragments so here’s another random assortment of short animation tests, …
O Rei Gastão (King Gaston) by Rio de Janeiro-based animator Diogo Viegas picked up the best children’s animation award at this year’s …
Brazilian artist Jomário Murta used multiple Microsoft Kinects to generate a sequence of point clouds (a set of points in 3D space) as …
Short but sweet festival opening directed by Guilherme Marcondes for this year’s Anima Mundi Festival, currently taking place in Rio de …
All I can say about this short is: “Wow!” Pure eye candy (and a tad NSFW) from Alessandro Corrêa in Brazil:
Festivals rarely make animated spots to encourage film submissions, much less spots that are as cool as the one above. The piece was …
I don’t know if this series will ever make it to the US – or will even get made – but here are some tantalizing clips from a new TV pilot …
Goodbye by Flavio Santana (Brazil): This piece was the winner of February’s edition of the 11 Second Club. Test by Josh Parpan …
When done well, the tactile quality of stop motion is one of the true joys of animation. I can’t take my eyes off of this beautifully …
Longtime readers of this blog know I have a “thing” for retro-style cartoons – i.e. new animated shorts that faithfully mimic a past era …
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based Animatorio created this stunning piece of stop motion animation. There’s some CG effects thrown into the mix too. …
Iuri Araújo, an illustrator/animator in Brazil, has put his student short on the web and its worth a look. Do Outro Lado (“On The …
Rio de Janeiro-based animator Rodrigo Leme directed and animated these spots while working in-house at Globosat TV in Brazil. The top …
As long as we’re exploring student CG from around the world, here is Pombinha Branca by Fernando Augusto Dias, produced while studying at …