Hi, my name is Zez. I'm a Freelance Animator and Director from Porto, Portugal. I've been making Motion Graphics for over 10 years to clients all over the world. I manage a small team of creatives to create full productions for Commercial Ads, Animated Explainers, Short Films and Music Videos. You can contact me by emailhere. I am acertified Fiverr Pro and you can hire me through the platform. I am also acartoonist.
My work is informed by geopolitics, comedy, atheism, masculinity, pop culture, technology and most of all by people's behaviours.
I always gave much importance to passion projects. Here are a few of them.
My role: Co-Director, Character Designer, Animator
‘Walter Precipitous’ is a marvellous story written by Toblerusse who approached me to produce an animation with his beautiful poem about a water molecule named Walter Precipitous and his friend Crystal, the snowflake. It’s about friendship and courage but also about science.
I started this podcast in a year full of lockdowns and a stagnant YouTube feed constantly showing more of the same. YouTube is huge and there’s an enormous amount of quality creators on the platform. You just need someone to tell you about them.
Through this podcast I had the chance to meet incredible people from different countries and backgrounds and learned about many niches that turned into genuine interest.
My computer screen was suddenly a window to the world.
Dumbowax was a punk duo by Pedro Pezinho (bass, vocals) and me as a drummer. We recorded ‘No Safeword’ EP with Sound Producer André Cardoso, and played some shows in and around Porto, Portugal including opening the SonicBlast Music Festival 2019. Further shows couldn’t be done due to a world pandemic. Pezinho and I now live in different countries and did not carry on with the band.
We produced two Music Videos with our friend and filmmaker Cat David, which we’re very proud of. The first one was for the song ‘Faster’ and has fast cuts and a DIY punk rock vibe. The second one was for the song‘BATS!’ and it was a blast to create from conception to post-production. Watch the band being attacked by nervous bats!
My role: Creator, Producer, Writer, Director, Illustrator, Animator
Lelo e Zezinha started as a webcomic and monthly comic strip on a local newspaper and ended up as a full production of an Animated TV Series that aired on Portuguese channel Canal Q. The characters Lelo and Zezinha are inspired in my own grandparents. They love the cartoons and we were invited on Portuguese TV morning shows, which was fun.
2014
ZEZ - Mobile Game
Website: N/A My role: Artwork Director, Illustrator, Animator, Graphic Designer
ZEZ was an action/puzzle mobile game designed and produced by Pedro Ribeiro and it featured a cat fighting robots. The entertaining, fast-paced game made many fans, gathering 200.000 downloads on the AppStore and Play Store combined. We were invited to ComicCon Portugal and had a nice review on Kotaku. The game isn’t available anymore, just the memory of who had a good time playing it.
