Chief Creative Officer

Reel

VFX reel

Expertise

Works

Animation & Videos

Softwareskills

Workexperience

May 2017 – Present
Chief Creative Officer
360 Biz / änimazed studios
360 Biz is a marketing agency specialized in generate leads and sales through advanced, personalized websites and videos.

Responsibilities:

• Create and develop engaging 2D and 3D animated graphics for video, web and print
• Monitor the progress and results of various graphic arts projects, provide feedback and propose changes to improve quality and efficiency
• Manage the creative team
• Develop online strategies for brand exposure
• Attend sales presentations to help clients understand the creative ideas and strategies of their marketing program
• Work with the executive team to implement internal marketing materials to help increase the company’s exposure
• Participate in brainstorming sessions to generate ideas
• Review and approve graphic art concepts

February 2010 – Present
Creative Director / Animation Director
Gava Productions / Gava Motion
Gava is a production animation company specializing in feature films, TV Series, commercials, educational and corporate videos.

Responsibilities:

• Directed and produced animated feature films, animated TV series, mobile games and 10+ corporate or educational animated videos

• Management of all aspects of animation production, including writing director’s notes for storyboards, providing feedback to the art and design departments

• Guidance of the animation team through pre-production to establish the style, work practices and quality bar for each game, TV Series, Feature film and commercial

• Design of concept art to establish overall look and feel of animated shows

• Edited video and sound

• Post production management (shading, lighting, compositing)

• Coordinated dubbing for TV series and feature animated film

• Planned and budgeted on 30+ animation and Live Action projects

• Negotiated deals with TV channels and other main stakeholders

• Pitching of works for funding

• Attended national and international festivals of animation (Kidscreen, MIPCOM, and others)

Main Works:
“The Adventures of Little Columbus”: Feature Animated Film / Creation and direction / In theaters the end of 2017 / screened in 10+ national and international Festivals.
“Chunk and Donut”: Animated TV Serie / Creation and executive production / Released on channel Gloob Network in 2015
“What’s up with Mr. Turkey”: Animated Film / Direction / Nominated in 8 national and international Festivals.

October 2004 – October 2010
Director
Labo Cine Digital
Leading Brazilian animation studio specializing in feature films, TV Series and commercials

Responsibilities:

• Directed TV series and feature films
• Directed “Live Action” commercial videos
• Artistic concept creation of TV series, feature films and commercial
• Planned and budgeted on 15+ projects
• Managed and grew large animation teams (60 people)
• Designed 10+ storyboards and Animatic
• Managed animation timelines and budgets

Main Works:
“Xuxinha and Guto Against the Space Monsters”: Feature Animated Film / Animation director / Distributed by Warner Bros / released in theaters in 2005.
“Monica’s Gang in an Adventure in Time”: Feature Animated Film / Co director / Distributed by Buena Vista International / released in theaters in 2007.
These two films are the two highest-grossing national feature animations in Brazil.
“Monica’s Gang”: Animated TV Serie / Director / aired Cartoon Network in Latin America.
“In the days when animals talk”: Animated Film / Director / nominated in Anima Mundi Festival, screened at the Nanofilms Festival in Brazil and Contis International Festival in France.
“Wilbor”: Animated Film / Director / broadcast in TV Brasil and TV Cultura. Nominated in Anima Mundi Festival.

July 2002 – August 2004
Animator
TV Globo
Globo is the second-largest commercial TV network in annual revenue worldwide

Responsibilities:

• Concept art, vignettes and video clip animation in for a daily children’s show “Xuxa in the Imaginary World”

• Character design

• Animation of shows vignettes, and video clips for different productions of the Broadcaster

Education

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ
Bachelor’s degree, Graphic Design, 1998 – 2003

Extension Courses

• •   TV Production – BTVP / ABPI-TV:  Advanced 2014
• •   Scriptwriting / Storytelling – Genre – Robert McKee 2014
• •   Hollywood 2-day Film School (with Dov Simens) 2014
• •   Copyrights 2009
• •   Transmedia (Anima TV) 2009
• •   Direct Marketing – FGV – 2000

LANGUAGE

• English native or bilingual proficiency
• Portuguese native or bilingual proficiency
• Spanish intermediate

Volunteerwork

Drop In The Bucket

Script, Storyboard, Art, Animation, Sound Effects, Motion Graphics, Editing of Drop In The Bucket 

Drop In The Bucket believes clean water is a basic human right that must be met in order to help people break the cycle of poverty. The mission is to build wells and sanitation systems at schools throughout sub-Saharan Africa, enabling youth to fully harness the life-changing power of an education.

The goal is to provide schools and communities with tools they need to improve child health, increase school enrollment rates, and promote gender equality.

Freedom Forward

Script, Storyboard, Art, Animation, Sound Effects, Motion Graphics, and Editing

Freedom Forward is working to improve systems in San Francisco to make the commercial sexual exploitation of youth less likely and less harmful, and ensure that those who’ve experienced it have opportunities to thrive.

Awards

Henkel Augmented Reality Electric Car Intro

• Winner “Platinum – 3D Animation” – Hermes Creative Awards 2022

Henkel Aerospace Peel & Paint

• Winner “Platinum – 3D Animation” – Hermes Creative Awards 2021
• Winner –  Animation – 27TH ANNUAL COMMUNICATOR AWARDS” 2021
• Winner “Bronze – Branded Content” – Telly Awards 2021

Creator and Director

HENKEL ENCAPSULANTS ::: Animated Video
• Winner “Platinum – 3D Animation ” Hermes Creative Awards 2020
• Winner “Branded content – 3D Animation” Telly Awards 2020
• 3rd place “Branded content – Craft-Fully Animated piece” Telly Awards 2020
THE ADVENTURES OF LITTLE COLUMBUS ::: Feature animated film
• Winner “Best Director” CinePE 2016
• Winner “Best original soundtrack” CinePE 2016
• Nominee for “Best Animation” Festin Festival – Lisboa / Portugal 2017
• Nominee for “Best Animated Feature” ABC (Brazilian Motion Picture Academy) – Brazil 2018
• Winner “Best Animated Feature” Animatiba 2019

WILBOR ::: Short animated film
• Nominee for “Best Portfolio Shot Animation” Anima Mundi Festival 2008

WHAT’S UP WITH MR.TURKEY? ::: Short animated film
• Winner “Best Animation” International Children’s Cinema Festival 2015
• Winner “Best Animation” 9th Locomotiva Festival 2014
• Winner “Best Sound Design” 9th Locomotiva Festival 2014
• Honors as “Best Animation” International Cinema Brasil Festival 2014
• Nominee for “Best Short” Anima Mundi Festival 2014
• Nominee for “Best Short” Lakino Festival – Berlin / Germany 2014
• Nominee for “Best Short” Animecê Festival 2015
• Nominee for “Best Short” Maracanaú Festival 2015

IN THE DAYS WHEN ANIMALS TALK ::: Short Animated Film
• Nominee for “What’s coming to TV” Anima Mundi Festival 2009

Co Director
MONICA’S GANG IN AN ADVENTURE IN TIME::: Feature Animated Film
• Nominee for “Best Feature Animation” ABC (Brazilian Motion Picture Academy) 2007

Creator, Producer and Director
JOCA’S MISADVENTURES ::: Short Animated Film
• Winner “Best Brazilian First Work” Anima Mundi Festival 2004
• Winner “Best International First Work” Anima Mundi Festival 2004
• Winner “Best student animation” Anima Mundi Festival 2004

Animator
A MARRA DE TONI PARAFINA ::: Short Animated Film
• Winner Best Animation by Popular jury Festival VideVideo UFRJ 1999

Contact

Skype: r.gava2
(949) 903-6878
rodrigo@gavamotion.com