Emilio Mayorga An increasingly important category as the world’s animation industry scours for new talent, this year’s 3rd Quirino Awards Animation School Short section will showcase rising talents from Portugal, Bolivia and Brazil in contenders “Néstor,” “Gravedad” and “I Guess It Went Something Like That.”A portrait of an obsessive-compulsive man living in an ever-swaying houseboat, “Néstor” marks the first year short of Portugal’s João Gonzalez at the U.K.’s Royal College of Art.
Made with zero budget and conceived on a tight deadline, the author took on direction, animation and musical composition –played by the cellist Miguel Teixeira.Gonzalez also used 2D frame-by-frame animation to achieve both complete visual control and aesthetic.
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