Artwork Collection

GradEx - Crayons

Stop Motion 3D 2D Animation

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Crayons
Crayons

Animation

Crayons

Crayons is a 4-minute animated short that travels through memories, showing how the perception of life changes. From childhood to adulthood, this journey is guided by a character recalling their creative expressions from each stage of life,... More

Behind The Scenes - 3D
Behind The Scenes - 3D

Animation

Behind The Scenes - 3D

The use of 3D environments in Crayons represent how life was perceived, evoking the fragility and distortion of nostalgia. By using different styles of texturing, modelling and animation, I wanted to evoke a specific feeling for each stage of life.... More

Behind The Scenes - Stop Motion
Behind The Scenes - Stop Motion

Animation

Behind The Scenes - Stop Motion

Crayons was made with top-down stop motion animation as well as different props and scenarios to directly represent each stage of life. I chose to use stop motion to express the tangibility of creative actions, such as colouring and drawing, as... More

Behind The Scenes - 2D
Behind The Scenes - 2D

Animation

Behind The Scenes - 2D

The interaction between the protagonist, the grandma and the little kid is the event that pulls the character out of her nostalgic cycle. I decided to draw them as 2D animation mimicking paper cut-outs to play along with the subway look. That scene... More

Work by

Gabriella Maruta Siqueira aka. gabi.fbx

3D Artist & Animator

“As I found myself drowning in pessimistic nihilism, feeling demotived yet looking around for inspiration, I started to look at the past and became detatched from reality. In my thesis film, I...” [More]