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São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

I directed a 30" anime style animation teaser for a Netflix Game.

I directed this one minute short movie for Dogzilla studios from animatic to it's final delivery, following art, animation and sound (music and folley) through the whole process.

São Paulo, Brazil

- Creation - Responsible for the creatives of Wildlife´s IPs. In this role we think and plan the creative strategy for the game we are responsible for - we create, produce and deliver the creatives, analise their tests, and from the results we iterate the whole cycle again.- Directed creatives from traditional 3D pipeline/production, Unity and Unreal, Motion graphics and playable ads- Produced several creatives with great perfomance for a new game to be launched, based on research, planning, iteration and instinct.- Successfully led a project involving creatives for Tik Tok, acquiring great results in test and rollouts.- Responsible for creating new creation and production processes where they didn´t exist, or improving them when needed.- Helped to identify and solve problems in internal processes and pipelines between different departments- Training new creatives directors.

São Paulo, Brazil

Director of the second season of Que Corpo é Esse, an animation series for TV Futura. And also directing a web series of Mr. Men Little Miss.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Director of the second season of the animated TV series Senninha na Pista Maluca - A TV series based on the iconic F1 racer Ayrton Senna - from written scripts to the final delivery, in 2020. Not only I improved the storytelling from the previous season, bringing a dynamic pace to the episodes, but also the animation and art, while keeping all the production checkpoints, forming new professionals, dealing with over 30 people in the team and maintaining a great relationship with the client, making sure their needs were met, and negotiating goals and results where needed.This was a cut-out series with 3D animations on the racing scenes.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Animation Director of over 20 high quality episodes of Monica´s Gang TV series (a very famous brazilian IP), and the feature film Tito and the Birds - selected for Annecy and TIFF, among other festivals. I directed around 20 animators, keeping track of the quality and schedule of the scenes/episodes.

São Paulo

In my year there, I directed a TV series Pilot with a small team, delivering a beautiful 4 minute animation short and also an ambitious feature film mixed techniques animation prologue, bringing together different areas of the studio to produce an outstanding piece.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Over my short period at Flux Studios I had the opportunity to manage over 10 projects at the same time, balancing the needs of clients, studio and team, and facilitating the communication of the whole company.

São Paulo, Brazil

Over chaos and mayhem with around 30 8-year-old students, I managed to engage them in creating, producing and delivering two short movies, while secretly teaching them animation.

São Paulo

Freelance director/animator/storyboarder/teacher working for animation studios.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

MOL Toons was a small and vibrant animation studio, where I could tackle every project with depth, and deliver great products along with a highly motivated team. I also helped to form new talents in art and animation.

São Paulo

Animation and Art Direction classes for Post-graduate course at Senac.

Responsible for creating and teaching a one year 2D digital animation course.

IEDResponsible for creating a 24 hour storyboard course for the illustration graduation of IED - Instituto Europeo di Design - and for teaching it once a semester

São Paulo

Creation of a post graduation animation course at Senac.

Senior animator and lay-out artist at the animated series pilot "Jajá Arara Rara". Also acted as animation director and art director assistant. This pilot was produced by MOL Toons - www.moltoons.com.br

São Paulo

I created and taught a one year animation course.

Background lay-out artist for the animated feature Lutas

Creation of a graduation animation course at Senac.

Responsible for all the graphic creation and development, and most of the characters from the animated series while at the company.

December 2006Producing illustrations, lay-outs, story-boards, inking, digital and analogic colorization. Worked together with the 3D staff of the studio, making illustrations for animations made using the After Effects software. Also made 2D animations.MOL is a graphic design, editorial design, illustration and former 3D animation studio. Working there made me develop a common knowledge of the areas mentioned, such as dealing with them and working in creation teams, as it was frequent to have jobs involving the whole studio.

São Paulo

I was an animator assistent at this studio, responsible for inbetweens, clean ups, and simple animations.

Character Animation

Activities and Societies: 2010 Summer course

3D Animation

2D Animator, 2D Animation - Traditional

Pós - Specialist, Games

Games - Programing and development

Architecture, Urbanism

Graduated as an Architect and Urbanist