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“I have the feeling that I didn't make it by myself, but that I was conducted by feelings that were completely different from those in my previous work. When I start making a film I don't know what I'm doing.”

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Alex Abreu

Alex Abreu, born on August 14, 1991, is an individual whose identity and profession remain unclear. Details about his life are limited. more

“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”

Ifs World Way Use Feelings Film Found Boys Possibility Color Built Tools Tables Studios Brushes Pencils Crayon Watercolors

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“I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.”

Ifs Children Real Remember Boys Worry Strange Draws Spending Drawing Exploits

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“I'm being sincere and I'm being human. I'm making mistakes or I'm doing things correctly, but I'm being human regardless. I'm talking about my pain and my joy, and I'm not saying it with words but mainly with colors and shapes. That's what I tried to do with the utmost sincerity and humility of a child.”

Humans Children Pain Joy Mistake Talking Humility Color Shapes Making Mistakes Sincere Sincerity Being Human Being Sincere

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“From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's probably very easy to make a film with those textures," but it's much more difficult than what it appears to be. We had to discover a faster process because otherwise it could have taken us 10 years to make it.”

Thinking Years Helping Might Film Easy Process Difficult Taken Type Faster Software Texture

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“A little bit more than 50% of what you see on screen is handcrafted and the other 50% was about emulating these textures on the computer. However, for us, when we were making it, we had to believe it was all handcrafted.”

Believe Littles Bits Computer Little Bit Screens Texture Handcrafted

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“I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."”

Ifs Believe Pieces Team Fronts Paper Computer Canvas

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“That was a very natural process because as I was creating the animatic I added music clips as reference of the kind of music I wanted in the film. These were from musicians like Naná Vasconcelos and Barbatuques, the body percussion group.”

Kind Body Wanted Film Process Natural Groups Creating Musician Clip Percussion Nans

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“We thought that using rap would draw a parallel with the protest music from the 60s and 70s that we found through the research for animadoc. When we thought about rap, Emicida immediately came to mind and we decided to call him to create this song bring the audience back to earth and put their feet on the ground. Emicida's song is the only one that has lyrics in actual understandable Portuguese.”

Mind Earth Song Found Audience Feet Draws Research Decided Rap Protest Parallels Portuguese Feet On The Ground

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“Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.”

Ifs Made Character Color Projects Music Is Structure Rhythm Opera Strokes Brushes Sculpture Brush Strokes

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