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
Céu D´Ellia
movies, animation, comics, illustration & environment
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
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
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
I started my career doing story boards and I love to do them. The film gets alive in my head and I have to work fast to put it on the board. Usually it happens in a way that, after I draw the roughs, does not need too many corrections on crossings of
One of my trips to the Amazonian Rainforest, the Yandu Expedition, 1994. I took this photo at the Moa River, on the way to the Divisor Mountains Range, close to Brazil-Peru
I like to mix simple graphic patterns and very geometric compositions, with the classical light and shadow perspective. It is a very conscious option. I clearly identify in my aesthetic preferences, that I received the influence of classical Italian