Feedback: Daniel Poerira

My name is Daniel Poeira, I am a substitute teacher and doctorate student at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I teach character design, special effects and general animation production techniques (storyboarding, scriptwriting, etc) at the Cinema, Photography and Drama department. I am also an independent animator, and am currently working on a 2d short titled "Flashback". Here's my blog, Diario De Flashack and my website danielpoeira.org

My main interests in animation are general design, storytelling, and techniques that I don´t work with, like stop motion and paint on glass. I am decent on 2d and digital 3d, and also cut-outs, but mastering paint on glass and puppet animation are still a long-term process to me.


It´s hard to pick my favorite Animation Archive post, I love everything you guys put out. But if I was to name only one, maybe it would be Basil Wolverton On Cartoon Sounds. He was just too much of a genius, and that rare article was pure gold!

I strongly believe that, the more we advance into the future of animation, the more we must understand its past. The disciplines involved in cartoon drawing, illustration, comic books and animation in the past must never be forgotten- it would be too damn stupid if we just started all over again, rediscovering the wheel in every generation. Understanding the knowledge of the great masters of the past will make our work much better and will let us concentrate on the new stuff we have to think about when dealing with this new technologies we have in hand.

You guys do terrific work and I always learn something new in your website and blog. I hope someday I´ll manage to visit you in person. Thanks for everything! -Daniel Poerira
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