tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25359400728469732772012-02-03T11:51:12.117-08:00Virtual PortfolioDavid Musselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12682429558202797249noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2535940072846973277.post-65879614103336594862012-01-24T17:23:00.000-08:002012-01-24T17:23:23.779-08:00

More doodles, enjoy it :)

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Inspired by Japanese Prints, I made this sketch.

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Merry Christmas and a happy 2012 for all of you!!

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Hi, fellows! I'm here again, after this time without posts, for share my first 2011's demo reel. It contains a sample of all work I made on 2010 in the Trunk Train Project, Capitain Constantino, and Monica's Gang, that for the Mauricio de Souza Productions. For this time, only 2D animations was made. As soon as possible, I update with more animations, now in 3D. I hope you enjoy it.

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">That's the clip of the 3rd episode of the awsome serie Trunk Train!The serie is a success in the Brazilian Tv! If you are not a person with samba in your feet, call your producers and buy the serie for your country, man! What are you waiting for? :D

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After 3 years of hard work, I've finished my graduation movie with my partner Giuliana Danza. It was released one year ago, and has participated of several festivals, which I describe below: Animamundi 2010 Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio 2010 Cine Votorantim 2010 Mostra de Cinema da Cidade de Pitangui 2010 Mostra A Caverna 2010 Anim!Arte 2010 Festival do Filme Livre 2011 Baixada

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Hey, guys!It's an amazing piece from Trunk Train: The Trololo Bird!!More news, pics and videos in http://trombatrem.blogspot.com/Enjoy it!

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Hi, fellows! Now, I'm here to show you some studies that I've made with Chinese ink and brush, to “try” myself. It's a work that I like a lot. On this paper (which is made with eggshell), I've tried to build a female figure through big and small black shapes, to show the shadow and the light in the woman. The composition in triangle is a way to maintain the sad and "non-active" atmosphere

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Happy New Year! I'm here now, after all this time, to show you some sketches made with pen that I drew to try (and find) beautiful designs from characters. Following the Fisiognomony studies, I started from the animal faces to define their personality and the best shape for them. As you may know, the results above are part of a big process and thousand of drawings to attempt to do a good shape,

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Hi, fellows!!!I'm here now to show you a little (and very good) piece of the 5th episode of Copa Studio's TV serie, Trunk Train. It's a sample; the all of it will be on TV in 2011!You also can watch this and more news and pics at the official http://trombatrem.blogspot.com/Have a great weekend and Christmas!

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Hi, Fellows!After this time without news, I have one: it's about the Tromba Trem (Trunk Train), the Copa Studio's TV serie. Pay attention for the characters, their movements, and the backgrounds, everything made perfectly well. This sample is good, and I can assure you: the episodes are much better! Watch and enjoy it!

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Hello, Fellows!I’m here to show you some news about the Animamundi:My short film “Quindins” (I’ll publish it on the net as soon as possible), was selected for the Animamundi festival, and I’m very happy for this!Some TV and magazines called us to some interviews. I put the links below.Veja Rio Magazinehttp://vejabrasil.abril.com.br/rio-de-janeiro/editorial/m1953/uma-festa-bem-animada.Megazine –

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Hi, folks!!!!I'm here today to tell you about mysilent time on my communication channel, hehe!I`m working on Copa Studio, in Rio de Janeiro, in the Trunk Trem Project (Tromba Trem).It`s a big dream, and I don`t wanna wake up.I put the photos of the Copa`s Team, and I`ll keep send stufs about the project, and personal works (when I have time, hahahaha).You can see the previews of the episodes in

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I'm here again to show you more about the process of the Affair's short scene.First of all, I've drawn the model, to make de modeling in the CG, to animate the character. As the two characters was the same, I modeled it just once.Then, I made the thumbnails, a lot f them, to catch the perfect pose, which could express every character's feelings to the audience, like Milt Kahl used to do, and also

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Hi all,This is the preview that I made to the affair's scene.As I said, I needed to plan carefully the scene before the 3D animation, to keep the eye texture expression, because during the animation process I didn't watch the eyes and what was happening in that stage of the animation. Like the most part of the animators in the world, mainly the great studio animators, like Pixar for example,

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This is my texture animation test, after watch again the children serie Pocoyo http://www.pocoyo.com/For some guys, it can be strange, but not for me. I became a Pocoyo's fan when I watched it in Discovey Kids, with my nephew. The fancy animation and the simplicity in the character design pointed out to me. the timing in Pocoyo is amazing, and many series and movies don't have that

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That's only the image of Don Quixote for the scene which I made this entire month.I really liked this scene, the process and the result, the charater and background's colors, the design, and the style "without" lines, the drawing with only colors, like Leo Matsuda's work, or Rad Sechrist's beautiful drawings, or some ones of Shane Progmore. Those guys are good inspiration in design.

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Well, that's some part of the Quixote's making of that I shown before.This first part is the planing in the storyboard scene. I took these images and put in the time with my voice, to feel how it behaviors. Here, I made the little drawings with the character gestures, called Thumbnails, and I put these drawings in the animation, in the layout scene, knowing where the charater would move.

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Here we are some thumbanils, which are the preview drawings that I always made before draw an animation scene. Milt Kahl was the great master: if he had a scene that the character was lying on the bed, for exemple, he drew him with the left arm on the stomach, and in other drawing, with the left arm on the head, and, other, left arm on the bed, and etc, ad infinitum, untill find out his pose.

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After weeks of work, I finished the preview scene of the character who I was developing and showing in this blog: Don Quixote. That's a little sketch scene for the movie that I've started to think while I'm not working.Being after the greatest Disney's masters, like Milt Kahl, Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston and the others, I tried to make this scene visually beautiful and, in the Disney's

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Last Saturday I was in the hospital with a deep pain in my neck. When I was there, an old man arrived, lying in a stretcher and he stayed in front of me for some minutes. It pointed his feet out to me for his straight with curves lines. Not only the feet, but also the hand and fingers of that work man who I observed. Following the Leonardo da Vinci's advise, I was with my little sketch book in

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Well, here there are some drawings made inside the subway, in the route to the college.Some people dislike when realize that they are been observed. As Walt Stanchfield said: “Don’t be afraid to sketch in public places such as museums, parks, restaurants, etc.”, because that's is the best exercise to our minds and drawings. Also Leonardo da Vinci advised his students to make drawings in public

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However, I wasn't pleased with those results, because didn't have platicity, beauty and charming in those characters when I put them in animation poses. So, I've made so many studies for the two persons, but now, I was started doing drawings from basic shapes, because they are better watched for the audience in the screen. And, as Alfred Hitchcock said to François Truffault: "We have to "draw"

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Fist of all, I have to show you the visual development - and some psychological attitudes - of these persons based on Cervantes' book.Here, I've drawn Don Quijote thinking in a thin middle-aged man. To tell you the truth, I really wanted e silhouette which looked like a Chuck Jones's Willie Coyote, only because Chuck's drawinhgs are so charming. So, I made many studies in my sketch book for the

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Other study about de Cervantes' book, after hours of work. That's composition will be used in future projects: I really liked that illustration! And, as we know, it's not ending here...

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Based on the greatest book Don Quijote de La Mancha, I made these two studies for the main characters on the literate story. It was weeks of hard research and work (thousand of drawings: pain in my hands!!), but it's not ending here...

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Winner of Vivo Arte Mov Festival, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, last november, for the people's vote.The short movie Botões (Buttons) have been made in the Object's Theater Festival, by Daniela Schneider, J.Ricardo, Rosilene Souza, Vilma Teles and me. The project had the orientation of Guilherme (Amarante) PAM and Enzo Giaquinto, for the Giramundo Puppets Theater Company.I hope you enjoy it!

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Back to the dog, I've made some takes, since Tex Avery, Disney, untill Federico Vitalli.Takes like Avery's work, the Pose to Pose is better, whereas the Vitalli's one, the Straigh Ahead give it more "life".

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Diferently to the first, which was used ink and pen, that was created only with a pencil 4B

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Illustration work based on the George Orwell's book: Animals Farm.

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The big School of Fine Arts' model: "Seu Zé"

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A test using the "Dick Williams" instructions about the Pose to Pose and Straigh Ahead mothodologies.

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That character was developed for me, in 2D technique, for the Poeira Estúdio, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where I worked. http://www.poeira.com.br/It was built and texturized for company's fellows . After that, I animated this short scene.Give us a kiss, Pow!

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Visual Concept developed for a Global Warming's short film. There, the old Perrault's fairy tale was rewritten in our hard hot times.

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Study for a swimming gym's mascot

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