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

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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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