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Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

Hi, folks!

We just finished a short movie, good ol' 2d traditional animation, and I decided to share some pics with you, as our distribution service is really... uh... not good.

All of the more than 80 backgrounds of this 10min short were done solely by Andr� Le�o assisted by Paulo Visgueiro. The animation itself is quite something, in these days when huge 2d studios stumble...

The project had the cooperation of many children of a public school of Rio de Janeiro and was done with culture purposes only.

Direction was done by Humberto Avelar, who also did the character concepts and storyboard. It's very nice to have a director who is also an animator! He really knows what he is talking about!

Story is about a brazilian legend, the Curupira, a creature who protects the forest (guess he would be very, very busy in reality...).
For more information as well as a nice chunk of the film (almost 1min 30s), please visit http://www.multirio.rj.gov.br/juroquevi/ocurupira

Thanks,
Tatagiba

varg · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:04 am

it looks good! i wanna see ut!
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Max · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:24 am

Excellent work!!! I like the last pic!!
That sounds interesting, I'd really like to see it.

Good stuff!

drunken_muse · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:32 am

Anything that is animated and mentions protector of the forest makes me think of princess mononoke & ferngully. ;) How many were involved in the project as a whole?

SolarC · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:40 am

Excellent stuff! Colors and the atmosphere in the last pic is magical!

Malachi Maloney · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:37 am

Nicely done. Smile

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beginnering · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:04 am

specially like the way the forest comes to live by giving the trees creature-like shapes (last pic)

micke · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:53 am

That' some really good work, my friend!! Very good indeed:)
I think the colors in the background (first pic) Is maybe a little to tense which take away the attention from the characters. Besides from that i love all of them!

-Mikael

Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

Thank you all for the encouraging words!

drunken_muse, the curupira is a very popular brazilian legend, based on an indian tale. The whole team studied a lot of folklore, real and fantasy brazilian images. Locations, people, flora and fauna and so on.

We had 6 animators (including the director, who also did character concepts and storyboard - 3 animators, among those 6 were 3rd party, half time pros), 1 painter (who is also art director) with 1 assistant, 1 layout guy, 1 3d animator (sorry, that's my fault...) and 1 compositing/story-reel man.

We also had 4 (3rd party) inbetweeners (who also did the clean-up) and 6 character painters (colored strokes in ALL characters in every frame!) Just look a color chart in the web page! They had to work!

There is a credits page in the web site with every name involved, all the big bosses and so on...

http://www.multirio.rj.gov.br/juroquevi/ocurupira

Beginnering, Andr� Le�o, the art director/painter really loves sculpting creatures on the backgrounds... sometimes it works like an easter egg! You have to look for them!

micke, this first pic is our poster, so in print it's not so bright. But I guess you are right!

Here are two more concepts:

If you like it, I have a few more here. Different techniques and approaches as well as some more creature and curupira studies.

Thank you again for the comments!

Jac0b · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:06 am

Sweet stuff. Smile

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micke · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:13 am

Oh yeah, keep em coming! These are fabulous:)

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:31 am

Perfect! I love the tree creatures! colors are amazing!!

More more more! gonna watch the trailer now

Cheers!

Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

Well, instead of the final backgrounds, here are 3 inspirational images, just to keep it up. Next week I may have a few more background images hosted, so I can link them here. Sorry for their size, a bit too large... (800px wide would be better, but first topic, first post...)

This first pic is a study for Curupira. There were many, many studies indeed. This kind of ambience was keep for the movie as a whole. Even at night, in a dense jungle, bright light and strong colors.

This next is a color key. Final image is a HUGE multi layer file, as camera pans to left. Multi-plane gave jungle a cool depth effect. With proper sound effects, it was alive!

Here is a study for the full moon effect in a wider plane. Rocky formations, although typical of central plain of Goi�s state, weren't used in the movie. Location is somewhere in Brazil, no specific spot. This gave us a very wide choice range.

Thank you for the kind words! Next week I'll put some tree creatures-like backgrounds!

See ya!

Flexible Elf · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:13 pm

This is some of the best stuff I've seen in a real long time! Very inspiring.

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Duracel · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:17 am

I really really dig those two living treetrunks! As you can see here *picture1* and here *picture2* im a fan of such beautiful focus on wood in nature - but your work is kickin' my ass, its absolute phantastic! *save and put on desktop*

PS: would like to have a closer view on the details in the treetrunks one.
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uglypixel · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 21

Such a damn fine art! Love the colors in curupira concepts and the study of full moon effect is my fav. Simple but hits the spot.
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Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

For all the tree creature lovers out there, a small up:

A desktop painted on one frame of the film. Bigger version in the web site

Desktop painted just for fun, no relation to the movie itself

Another tree creature, the original of this one is a HUGE file, as camera begins on the higher branches and goes down. What do you think, Duracel and Capt.FlushGarden?

Maybe some 100% details in the next... Duracel, I showed those 2 pics of yours to our art director and he liked them very much, specially the second, which has a nice depth effect!

Thank you again for the comments,
Tatagiba

Mr. Heiesuke Oda · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:34 am

really awesome stuff i hope to see this with English subs oneday. i love richly colored art.
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Nausea · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:27 pm

simplesmente incrivel!

eu so fui conhecer esse projeto agora conferindo teu post...

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Pato · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:44 am

Wow! Pretty good! Nice to see such kind of project here in Brazil!
I wanna see more!!! Surprised

Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

Hi, Mr. Heiesuke!

Thanks for the compliments! Well, this short has no speeches, but a short voice over done by a famous (at least in Brazil!) brazilian actor, Matheus Nachtergaele.

I hope we can, one day, put the whole movie online. Although the film was rendered at 1536x830 res (we couldn't afford to do it at 2k...), we have a 11min (10 + credits), 280MB, 640x480, very good quality DIVx. But sometimes our problems aren't just technical...

Oi, Nausea!

Voc� � um ilustrador e/ou trabalha com anima��o? � de qual estado? Se for do Rio, n�o deixe de passar aqui pra ver o filme todo e beber um cafezinho com a turma!

Hi, Pato!

Well, this is a very singular project, and i'm not talking about Brazil alone. It is a one of a kind work, as it was done with children from the public educational system! And they did colaborate! If you are in Rio, come visit us, drink a cup of coffee and meet the team!

More images:

This is a very, very large background done for a long camera movement. The unfinished parts were covered by characters.

Another huge pic, this one features a stone creature! Character was placed on the light green spot. Foreground branches were painted on different layers.

A detail in 100% of the previous image. Now we can see all the strokes that build up all those different textures.

Hope you like them!

More in the website: http://www.multirio.rj.gov.br/juroquevi/ocurupira/

See ya!
Tatagiba

Joachim · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:04 pm

Fabulous !!! I wish you could just keep on posting new pictures forever, these are all excellent !! very inspiring
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Duracel · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:58 pm

Thank you for your comment, too, tatagiba.

Those footsteps are quite well done.
And in the one, where the camera goes down from the top-branches ... i really like the subtle colors on the ground.

But well, all other pictures are really great too! So i hope you can put the movie online someday, too. Smile

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Tio Fonfa · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:29 pm

muito bom rapaz! muito bonito! moro em belo horizonte e gostaria de ver esse filme! que tal se disponibilizassem um divx pra n�s? poderia ser lan�ado na rede do emule, etc...

uma curiosidade: qual � o tamanho original dos cenarios? em pixels?

Monteiro · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:10 am

Isso a� n�o tem nome. Est� m�gico!
Esculacho!!!

Felipe Boreli · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:37 am

Well, today I had the chance to see it here in Rio. "O Curupira" is what we called a perfect production. About the visual, there�s nothing to talk. Just everything to see and contemplate. The story is pure brazilian culture and very important nowadays for these times...

In the studio, Marcio showed me few seconds of the next in the project, "O Boto". You did no see nothing yet.

Gongratulations for everybody in the production!
I WANT THE DVD NOW!!! Cool

poppysan1 · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:56 am

This is soooo very inspiring. I love the work put into the subtle details of each shot. I almost spent an hour looking at these picture over and over. Marvelous!

Tatagiba · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 6

I read all these msgs to the team, as usual and it is very encouraging.

Joachim, I admire your work since Project IGI, and your page is in my favs. I'm really honored to read from you.

Duracel, thank you very much for your support. I will send you an e-mail.

Tio Fonfa, n�o posso botar o filme online por causa das diretrizes da presid�ncia. Pelo menos por enquanto... Se vc mora em BH, que tal dar um "pulinho" em Tiradentes no final do m�s e assistir o filme no Festival de Tiradentes? Dia 31 �s 14h 30min!

Monteiro, 'brigad�o mesmo! Pena que pouca gente conhe�a o projeto!

Felipe, you are welcome. Feel free to come back whenever you want! Thanks for visiting us!

poppysan1, thanks for the kind words!

I will try to post more pics later!

Thank you all,
Tatagiba

Ylla · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:11 pm

these are stunning. i love the juxtaposition of the blue moonlit backgrounds with the campfire lights...
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danielog · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 2:36 pm

c�o imundo proxenta!!!!! Shocked

that's one of the greatest stuff i've seen as
an animation short project here in brazil..

great art direction, scenaries...
reaaly great work.. I'm allways amazed to see
what you do at multirio...

give my congratulations to humberto, and all
the other people... nice to know people are producing
such stuff around here...
congratulations many times!
over Idea

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