Céu D´Ellia

movies, animation, comics, illustration & environment

Love Will Rescue You: a documentary poem

This film came to be in a very heartfelt and synchronic way. I was living a very difficult moment, very sad about my career and about the world we live in. One day, after my daily meditation practice, I put my mind in the void and did a request. I

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Exercising on Cintiq

It was Barry Ward, Mr. Bardel himself, who advised me to learn how to draw on Cintiq. My final resistance vanished after I did some research and found out that Dave Gibbons, the meticulous and rigorous British penciller-inker artist, has been working

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Anima Mundi 2014: Honored Artist

Anima Mundi 2014: Honored Artist

From July the 29th, starting in Rio, to August the 10th, ending in São Paulo, it happened the 22nd International Animation Festival of Brazil, the Anima Mundi 2014. And being one of the honored artists of the Festival (the others were Bob Balser,

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The Hopes for the Future

The Hopes for the Future

Céu´s 1998 Super Eco´s results presentation, at Durban, South Africa, IUAPPA International Congress. For a decade, I worked together with the biologist Andrée Vieira. We

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3D Animation Design

For the Animated Kabaret design, I was searching for a very stylized CG-3D, unrealistic and with many 2D solutions. Like Mickey Mouse ears, that always face the viewer straight, it doesn´t matter to where the mouse is looking at. So, for example,

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Papaya + Cream

When I first arrived at Tafukuman´s Kalapalo´s hamlet, I was received with a party. The dance and chanting scene shall be presented to the whole group of five people, traveling with me. But for some reason, I arrived alone, one hour in advance than

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NUPA

At NUPA* I had a small school-studio, where students without money could learn, for free, the basic fundaments and tools of “2D animation” (that I prefer call “digital cut out”) and, in addition, to receive lectures from the best professionals in

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