Céu D'Ellia

movies, animation, comics, illustration & environment

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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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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Expeditions

  Tortoise and Jaguar, Amazon Sketchbook       In 1994 I received an Art Grant for

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Story Boards

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

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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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Hand Drawn Animation Design

I like form. Philosophically speaking, everybody does. But I like how you can use lines in a flat surface, and make the eyes cheat your brain that what you see is tridimensional and exists in space. Better: I like to draw things that at the same

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