Alda goes to the Americas side

I made this drawing to advertise on Aldas's facebook that the film was selected for the New York Portuguese Short Film Festival. On May 31 it will be displayed in Lisbon, Cascais and in New York (Tribeca Cinemas) at 7:30 PM. Show up!

I leave here the sketch I did for this drawing. Let me put up my ego, because it's not every day that I'm happy with my work, but this one made me very happy. It's B-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l.

Update

Very well, I haven't posted anything here for a while. It hasn't happened anything interesting, apart from a lot of work I have to do. Last week I went to the film festival Indielisboa, to see Alda, the most lovely old lady in the film history. Everything went fine, nothing extraordinary. 

I leave here some drawings of today's class.

This week we started to study the anatomy with the skeleton. Later we'll move to the muscles, and so on. Now I'll be a master drawing bones.

We even made a new friend. He's called Adolfo, lives in the catacombs and is widowed.

Alda - A more serious film

With Monstra on our back, April brings us a new film festival (which began yesterday): Indielisboa.
Unlike Monstra, this is a festival that gathers several film categories such as live action, animation, documentaries, and so on...

I have an animated film called "Alda" in it. I made it along with three more colleagues, my animation gang. It was our final project for the Digital Animation degree. I had never done such a long animation (it has 12 minutes), and it cost us a mighty back pain in the final sprint, but it was worth it. We ended up with a great movie that I invite all of you to watch (if you're in Lisbon). Don't forget: April 30th, 7.00 PM, São Jorge Theatre.

It will be shown on the  Brand New section, along with other films (ours is the only animated movie).
You can visit the movie page on the festival here: http://indielisboa.com/indie/en/movie/alda-2/

If you want to know more about the film, go to the facebook page and give Miss Alda a Like, please: https://www.facebook.com/aldafilm?ref=hl

And finally, here is the trailer for you to get an idea of what I'm talking about:

Alda - Short Film Trailer from Pipe Fonseca on Vimeo.

Maniacs

I haven't posted anything for a while, so I decided to show this animation I made in the second year of college, despite the fact that I don't have any pride in it.

I made this work along with a colleague. I animated the blue character and she animated the rose. 

It was made in Flash and the animation is not very good because the goal was to learn how to work with the software. I did not work very well with it and I didn't became a fan of Flash.

Another thing that it's not good: the story is hardly noticeable. Let me explain. There are two characters who are the pawns in a board game. They are maniacs. The blue one has a mania for orientation and is always afraid of losing sight of his way. The rose one has the mania for cleaning everything. When they see that on the top of the mountain is what each one wants, begins a race to see who gets there first, but their plans are soon ruined because they must return to the beginning.

Well, it's not good, but I show it to you anyway. Here are some studies for the characters.

Trivia: their voices is really our voices.

Classes update

I didn't publish anything about the drawing classes for a while so it's time to update this (take off that disgusted face and smile).

A few weeks ago we started drawing cloths. For me it has become more difficult because we only had 20 seconds to look.  Less time and more things to observe. I didn't even have time to look at the model's body. Here goes a mini-selection of those I think are the better.

This week we began to study the head. We've been drawing busts (there are some statues at the classroom). Today we did something different. We drew the head of our colleagues, very nice.

Still talking about the Lamp

The Lamp surprises again when I thought it was all over.

Yesterday was the closing of Monstra 2014, and, as such, there was a prize giving ceremony. My film won the Best Portuguese Student Film prize! Can you imagine?

I wasn't expecting it. At all! I wasn't even counting on going to the ceremony because I thought I was going there for nothing. I was wrong.

I saw great movies this week. Movies that left me amazed and thinking about how they have been made. How did my film win when there was such great movies in the festival?
It's true that this award was only for Portuguese films. There were 6 (I only know the filmmakers of 3 of them). Congratulations to all.

The trophy is made of cork and if you squeeze it, plays the sound of a monster screaming and saying the name of the festival. Very original.

Thanks to my family, friends, colleagues and Universidade Lusófona :)

The Lamp journey continues

Like I said, my film was screened last Wednesday and Thursday in Monstra. Iwas present only on the wednesday session and the room had a few aundience. What a pity.

For those who have not seen it, here is the animation.

The Fan and the Lamp from Pipe Fonseca on Vimeo.

As I said in the previous post, I believed this to be the last time the movie was walking around. I was wrong again because today I received an email and it seems that the film is going to a festival in Lebanon. In Lebanon, my God! That is on the right side of the map ....
I get to feel like the Lamp is a son who's going to war. I hope it comes back alive.

It doesn't stop.