People watcher3/29/2023 ![]() Keep it simple, play to your strengths and do what excites you.ĭo you consciously strike a balance between the depth of the story and the way it is told? You can get excited by a new technique or visual style or even a software plug-in that you end up getting carried away with it and lose perspective on what you’re trying to do, you also lose that raw connection you had with your work in the first place. I think the most important/useful advice I ever got given was to play to your strengths, I kept things simple because thats the way I’ve always worked in my sketchbooks. I think I’ve always struggled with drawing things ‘well’, I’m terrible at proportion/perspective etc…so the only way I could put to paper what is in my mind is to simplify it by about a 100 times, I always say that my work is a bad version of what I saw in my head. How do you maintain a sense of self and originality when there is so much incredible work published these days? What advice would you give a young artist or illustrator about finding their own way of doing things? Showreel 2010 from Luiz Lafayette Stockler on Vimeo. the best thing I had throughout though was my friends/fellow classmates, without their help I dont think I would have made this film the way I did. luckily most of the scenes were fairly simple to animate, otherwise it would have taken a lot longer. I wouldn’t recommend that to anyone though as I hardly slept, but I thrived on the pressure. I had all these storyboards and animatics that no longer made sense to me so in the end I had to become a bit ruthless with it all and I just let spontaneity take over and freestyled most of the film, animating it in six weeks. I think as a filmmaker/artist/musician/writer etc… you can become quite precious of your idea and it can be quite hard to stand back and take a look at it with an open mind. Because of its personal element it became very easy to lose sight of what I was trying to make. I had the whole year to work on it from development/pre-production/production/post production to finished piece….the script was the easiest part, I wrote that in a day and took about 5 drafts to get it right, I got a lot of help and feedback from my friends which helped a lot…the rest of the film went through so many changes and doubt/insecurities that I almost gave up and considered re-doing the year. It was made during my third year of my BA in Animation at the University of Wales, Newport. ![]() What sort of time did you dedicate to the Vovô project? Does it take a long time to create something so polished? The film is about my childhood memories of my grandfather when I was growing up in Brazil, up until his untimely death during a summer holiday I spent back in Rio visiting my family when I was 19, I havent been back since. Vovô is the Portuguese word for grandfather. Vovô has quite a sad story to it, is the film something you have created out of personal experiences or is it purely fiction? It has a universal theme that makes it accessible to people. I think the one thing I enjoy the most out of my film is that its such a personal story to me, but also something that I think anyone can relate to in some way or another. Your short animated film Vovô has caused quite a stir online, what do you enjoy most about your film? I am starting an MA in Animation at the Royal college of Art, it’s quite a prestigious school in the animation world so I was ecstatic when I was offered a place! You are soon to start at the London Royal College of Art – what are you studying? when I was 8 years old, my dad was offered a job in Scotland riding horses for a breeder, so we moved to the UK. My parents worked with horses and were professional showjumpers who competed at the highest level in south america. I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to a Brazilian father and a Welsh mother. You say in your Twitter profile “North Wales via Brazil” – what’s the story there? ![]() I managed to track Luiz down and he was kind enough to answer some questions about his film and his own process of storytelling. Vovô from Luiz Lafayette Stockler on Vimeo. I have been lucky enough to find some incredible work on Vimeo just recently and Luiz’s film is most certainly in that category. I recently discovered his film Vovô on Vimeo and was immediately struck by the powerful simplicity and the beautiful way the story is told. Luiz Lafayette Stockler is a 25 year old award winning director and animator. ![]()
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