Ques: Can we start off with just a quick introduction and a bit about you for the readers, please?
Ans: I live in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). Since my chidhood I liked to draw a lot, so when it was time to choose a university I picked up the Fine Arts School. I made a painting course at Fine Arts Shool (6 years) and two Photographic courses. Later I went to work for various advertising agencies.After working for 6 years for MacCann Erickson I went to work for JWThompson and spent 17 years in their office at Rio de Janeiro. While working for them I focused onstory-boards, layouts and art that went to print. During this time I used traditional art materials, pencils, brushed and air-brushes but at home I was already using computerssuch as a Comodore Amiga and custom built PCs to do my personal freelance work.

Ques: Do you ever thing of become a superhero like He-man or Spiderman in your childhood?
Ans: Yeah.

Ques: Please let our readers know about your journey in this field?
Ans: When Thompson turned it's traditional Studio into the Computer Arts Department in 1994 I was one of the people who joined the change from brushes to mouse.As soon as the computers were more and more powerful the 3D became a reality for all of us who could not afford the great machines used at that time. The software who had a great influence at those years was Bryce.

Ques: Who are your favorite comic and animated characters?
Ans: Jimmy Neutron

Ques: What inspired you to become an Artist?
Ans: I don't remember, it was a long time ago.

Ques: What part of designing is most fun and easy, and what is most hard in 3d?
Ans: I think that the objects are more confortable to deal than human beings in 3D.
Ques: Tell us the greatest challenge and also the easiest work until now in your career?
Ans: There's no easy work in our job, You have to please the art director, the agency and the clients.
Ques:What was the most difficult task for you to modeling and illustration and why?
Ans: It was the Ferrari-Shell 60 years partnership project. It gave me the most satisfaction too.It tells the story of the Shell-Ferrari's 60 years of partnership showing the cars that were important both to Ferrari and Shell during that period.
Ques: What are your hobbies and how you spend your free time, if you have any?
Ans: I had to left my hobbies since I became a freelance working at my home office. I used to play Flight Simulators like EF2000 and all the stuff from DID's company.
Ques: You are a freelance artist; please tell us about demands of art clients and what is your process on it?
Ans: I begin to work after receiving a brief from an Art Director or Creative. I spend a lot of time studying the product I'll have to do and look for references
in the Internet to help me do a nice representation of the object.
Ques: What your current projects are, please tell us something about it?
Ans: I'm working for a line of paint materials for a chain of super stores. They're gonna be images for their websites and print material.
Ques: Which project of yours we are going to see next?
Ans: A lot of paint cAns.
Ques: What’s your one line slogan for motivating animation or cg student?
Ans: To love what you do.
Ques: In the end what’s your message to the students of this field?
Ans: Don’t narrow your knowledge only to the 3D field. Try to see the movies, go to see photography's expositions, read good books.
3D is a tool to express yourself but behind that tool must be an artist With a certain and distinct point of view.
Thank you for taking the time out From your Busy schedule to answer these questions and share your knowledge with Animation Carnival.