What are your passions in life?
Solving problems is on top for sure! I think it drives my life, I’m obsessed with paths and going from “I don’t know how to start it” to “I did it” is definitely rewarding. Of course 3d is very challenging and people are always inventing different and better ways to do the job, especially in the VFX areas which I love.

My most recent passion is poker, Texas Hold’em! After you realize that isn’t just about gambling, it can really open your mind for life. You make lots of friends that would be almost impossible to know in your common social circles and so many insights can be learned like making the right decision focusing on “the big picture”. If you do things right, eventually you get rewarded… I guess.

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What are your core skills, competencies?
I think the competence that helps me the most is learning fast. By looking at things more objectively I can learn more in a shorter time. Sometimes you need to go back to basic stuff to take a second look, but it seems a fair trade for me. Also I have a need to surprise people, I definitely sleep less because of it, but it’s very fun.

What are your greatest achievements?
Learning 3D first of all was a great accomplishment, I could see that I was overcoming the barrier of learning very early on. Also to start my own company at the age of 20. To be able to take care of entire projects on my own, alongside my mate Daniel Bohrer. We can finally do the stuff we like and to be completely honest with clients, taking the best approach for each job and, I need to tell you this: To be able to decline a job is a blessing! That way you can focus on quality itself and take care of the work with more pleasure instead of just accepting projects you don’t like or can’t do well just for the money.

What are the best things about Porto Alegre, Brazil?
It’s chaos! Sometimes it is fun to watch so many bizarre people mess around, sometimes it isn’t… But I really can’t tell you much because I just leave my room to get some food or watch movies…

What is the scenery like there?
Well… I remember a scene from Pixar’s movie “A Bug’s Life” when the main character saw the city for the first time. I think if you come to Porto Alegre you’ll feel something like that!

You have an impressive 3D and motion portfolio, what are you working on at the moment?
Thank you very much! The motion part of my portfolio came from a local company in which I had the great opportunity to start my career, working with really creative people. These days I’m doing more stills images and 3D videos interacting with live action or not. My study at the moment is completely aimed towards effects (particle, fluids, render) and composition. I hope to share with you a VFX reel very soon with at least 90 percent of personal work. I’m very excited about it.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Honestly I don’t know for sure, but I’m not afraid of that. I say this because I like to be open for every opportunity, maybe I will stay as a freelancer, maybe I’ll be working for some company in another country, maybe in a whole other profession. My real goal is to work in the movie industry and in Brazil I sadly can’t see any niche that I can fit in working with VFX besides advertising… So I probably will move around.

How are the carnival celebrations?
For me it’s just another holiday and when I don’t need to work I catch some barbecue with friends or family. No samba for me! Rather a good rock ‘n roll

Caipirinha, Cubata or Mojito?
Caipirinha definitely sharps my mind! haha

Football or Volleyball!?
I’m really bad in sports, especially when I need to move around and it involves balls… But the soccer world cup was very fun to watch.

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Ego

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Dropbox

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Source Viewer

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iMy

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TouchTerm

TouchTerm is a fully featured SSH terminal application interface that enables remote access on their iPhone. It’s worth $3.99

Web Developer Bible

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CSS Cheat Sheet

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jQuery Cheat Sheet

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HTML Cheat Sheet

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HTML Colors

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Network Ping

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Web Source Viewer

As name signifies, it is a free and very simple application to display web source of any website.

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What comes first Illustration or Graphic Design?

For me they are a happy and equal marriage of creative differences. They
both perform roles within the creative field, offering different skill sets
and producing different results. I find both challenging and I don’t
consider myself to have a particularly distinct style in either.

For me illustration is as close to artistic expression as you can find
within the commercial artist sphere, its an inherently revealing and
personal process, producing images from scratch and imbuing them with your
own sense of identity and authorship.
Graphic design on the other hand, is naturally a creative process, but
equally its also about working within and responding to an external set of
stimuli (brief, client, constraints etc). Graphic design can be flamboyant,
sober, clean and simple or simply chaotic, but more often than not its
tempered by the brief.

This is just how I see the them, and I enjoy them equally for both their
restrictions and their freedoms. Its great to sit down with pencil and paper
and pour things out and equally as fulfilling to work meticulously on a
piece of design.

What are your visual inspirations?

I think like most people they are varied, I go through fads and have long
term love affairs, and meticulously hoard away images from blogs, and other
ambient sources(ctrl click save as…). Right now today though I really like
the work of  Cody Hudson (I think he balances design and illustration
beautifully), Yusaku Hanakuma a comic artist of the very funny Tokyo Zombie
and master of the ‘Heta-uma’ style of illustration (translates as ‘bad, but
good’), Mary Blair who was a principle artist at Disney, Tomi Ungerer a
French illustrator whose work spans decades, Antoine Girard another French
illustrator. Design wise; Karlssonwilker a couple of Europeans working in
NY, Yokoland, Julien Vallee papercraft madness, some of the classics -
Robert Brownjohn, Paul Rand, Alan Fletcher, Bruno Munari.

I am a big fan of ‘Freitag’, I think their logo is very simple and a
counterpoint to the random element of their products, and also in terms of
brand experience I think they’re great. If you were unaware of them, Freitag
manufacture handmade bags made from truck tarpaulins, tyre inner tubes and
seat belts 100% recycled, each bag is individual in colour and design. Not
only do they have a great product which they are forever bringing out new
versions of and new lines, but they also have unobtrusive and usually funny
advertising , they also have great photography and tight clean design in
their publications. I think think they offer a rounded experience, great
product, advertising and tone.

Favourite band, I don’t usually do favourites, but at the moment it has to
be Saul Williams a hip hop spoken word artist. Others would include Battles,
The Amps, Sigur Ros, QTSA, The smiths, Be Your Own Pet.

The perfect night out?

Although I live in London, I am a country boy at heart. Perfect night out;
drinking and eating on a beach into the wee hours.

The belgian design studio lab[au] transformed dexia tower in brussels into a light-based weather
forecasting installation. the project uses the large tower as a public canvas to visualize the next day’s
weather forecast. the installation uses real time data to project the temperature, cloudiness,
precipitation and wind using colors and different geometrical patterns. each of the building’s
6,000 windows have been outfitted with around 12 LED lights each. the lights reflect off the closed
blinds at night, illuminating the whole window. the temperature is displayed based on the monthly
average with a different colour for each increase or decrease. Post via [designboom]

http://lab-au.com

Crowdsourcing design here. Designers join here.

Chris Wharton // Esqueleton

Marsha Hunt

Moshik Nadav //  TypoLyrics – The sound of Fonts

Chris Humpris  //  24chick

Juliann Brown  //  JB2ldPeoplePainting

Mila Andr

Kellie Matheson

Valberta Guthrie

Joel Mejias

Anatoliy Omelchenko

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