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The Animation Lady shares some cherries.

The Animation Lady shares some cherries.

Note: All the images in this post are Nancy Beiman’s authorship.   Nancy Beiman is a director, character designer, teacher, and animator. I met Nancy Beiman in 1989. We were both hired as Senior Animators for the first Amblimation's

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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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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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Collage 83 14

On Collage 83 14, I put together scenes from different films that I not only directed but also animated myself. Besides that, most of them had their original designs developed also by me. So, it’s a kind of a collage of my animation style (or

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Cinemark motion graphics

With more than 500 movie theatre rooms, Cinemark is the largest Brazilian film exhibition company. So, Hey Hey Hey, the security film I did in 2014, was surely the most viewed film in Brazil along this season. The film is projected in every single

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Experiments

Farewell is my first short animated film and it was done many years ago, in Brazil. All made in the old way, with no computers and (besides all paper hand-drawn) also hand-painted and shot on 35mm film, on a mechanical rostrum camera. It was very

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Fievel Goes West

Fievel Goes West was a Steven Spielberg and Robert Watts´ production. From an original idea from David Kirschner, with Flint Dille and Charles Swenson´s screenplay, it was directed by Simon Wells and Phil Nibelink. Simon, at that time, was coming to

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