Taliyah Ambushed in the Freljord

Taliyah, while returning to Shurima, crosses the frigid icescapes of the Freljord, where she encounters a not-so-friendly hunter...´Submitted to Agora Studio's AnimChallenge, November 2024, themed ''Arcane''.

Software Used: Blender, Sketchbook Pro, Animation Paper & Shotcut

O meu irmão voltou a casa!

A little girl eagerly awaits someone's return, having prepared everything for their arrival. As the door creaks, the enthusiasm grows until they finally hug. Oh! There's so much talk about!

Materials Used: Animation Paper, Shotcut, Ink

Rhaarini Aamiteshi
Ihakoono Tamaashi

A brief moment of the life of Nomaari, daughter of a family of goat and camel herders, out and about with a spirit friend of hers, Rhiili, as they play pretend with rocks and goat anklebones.

Software Used: Sketchbook Pro, Shotcut

Boop!

Eliyen is a playful and naïve giant, who's never seen a human before. Megyn is a brave and strong human who, nevertheless, hopes to never be seen by a giant. One day, while out to get water, Eliyen sees a human drinking from the stream! Oh damn!

Materials Used: Animation Paper, Krita, Sketchbook Pro, Shotcut, Gouache & Ink

Rhaarini Aamiteshi
Imirooto

A shadow-theatre inspired short play about the story of a Tesiirean boy, Imiiro, and his strange, but also strangely endearing love for masks.

Software Used: Sketchbook Pro, Adobe After Effects

Rita Turnaround

Software Used: Animation Paper, Sketchbook Pro

Head Shake Study

Software Used: Animation Paper

A man looks at a stormy sky

Software Used: Sketchbook; Shotcut

LoFi Rita Animation Loop

Software Used: Animation Paper, Sketchbook Pro, Shotcut

A girl sneezes

Software Used: Animation Paper

Stirring a soup pot and tasting from a spoon

Software Used: Animation Paper

Swallow Flying

Software Used: Animation Paper, Sketchbook Pro, After Effects

Character jumping over a gap

Software Used: Animation Paper

Deep Breath

Software Used: Animation Paper

Beatriz Loureiro Marques

Beatriz Marques is an independent illustrator and animator based in Aveiro, Portugal. She has a degree in Multimedia Art from FBAUL, Portugal. She is now taking her Master's Degree in Illustration and Animation in IPCA, Portugal.She loves warm colours, and has a passion for language. When she's taking a break from drawing or writing, she's most likely mumbling about her next great idea, somehow inevitably involving rocks.

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Boop

In a world coinhabited by humans and giants, pestered by the memories of long-gone apocalyptic wars, small bands of giants now live simple lives, gathering from nature, and humans live scavenging from the wreckage of civilization in small bands, in hiding, hoping to never be seen by the giants.
Decades have passed since the wars and some giants have never seen humans outside of the stories their elders tell. Such is the case for Eliyen, a playful and naïve giant who, one day, while out to get water, sees a human drinking from the stream!

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Software Used: Sketchbook Pro, Shotcut

Layouts & Animation

Software Used: Animation Paper, Sketchbook Pro

Final Render

Materials Used: Gouache & Ink, Krita, Sketchbook Pro, Shotcut

Rhaarini Aamiteshi

Rhaarini Aamiteshi is a series of animated shorts, currently comprising of Imirooto and Ihakoono Tamaashi, set in the world of Tesiiro, a place where magic and spirituality permeate life. There live the Aarhena, a tribe of goat and sheep herders, torn between the ways of the old nomads, who followed the season's callings every year, and the ways of the new farmers, who settled by the Tamaari river. Amidst them lives Nomaari, a young goatherder, and her secret friend, Rhiili, a misshapen spirit who seemingly bears both striking resemblance and stark difference to Nomaari, and yet is inseparable from her. Besides these two, among the Aarhena, lives Imiiro, a young boy with a strange love for masks, and Omaaisi, an elder who never forgot her childhood.

Taliyah Ambushed in the Freljord

This is my submission to Agora Studio's AnimChallenge, November 2024, themed ''Arcane''. I took a few artistic liberties with the theme and animated Taliyah being ambushed in her journey through the Freljord back to Shurima, as if it was Arcane.The models and the scenery are quite old and janky. In fact, I made them shortly after the release of Arcane season 1, inspired by it, and I thought this was a great time to bring them to life, finally. I tried to mimic the style as closely as could, through all the hand-painted materials, the lighting, the 2D VFX animation, the smearing by hand of individual frames.

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Animation Process