Rodrigo Sousa

Some Playground references

Here are some references I gathered for the original trailer, on the left side are the design references in the right side the color references and in the middle my rough thumbnails. I also added some screenshots of my miro board I have been preparing ever since I finished the trailer, it has a huge amount of reference, text, rough designs, kinda like a mind map of the universe.

Happy to answer any question you might have ! Thank you for continuous support and will tell you more soon ab...

Playground colorscript

Here is the initial colorscript for the playground trailer, you can see that colors changed quite a bit with the final trailer.

Flocon wip animation

Just finished a small one month job and I have a bit of time inbetween projects to animate on this small project Im doing with Antoine Carré!

I am trying to animate based on Antoine's layout and then going in in straight ahead, quite fun to do ! (Pond 5 is quite helpful to have some video reference of birds and whathever you need for your own animations!)

Here is where I am at the moment, more wip and news soon!

Flocon Update

Little update on this animation I'm doing in between projects!

Animation update

Hi all ! Here is a new animation update. I have been working on this short film with Antoine Carré https://www.instagram.com/antcarre/ inbetween projects. The project I'm working on is under NDA so most of what I have been doing I can't really show yet... But it has been mainly writing for this short film I will be directing.

On another note I wanted to thank you all for your support and sharing of my wor...

Flocon animation 01

Here are some updates on the animation!

Flocon Animation Wip 01

Here are some shots I'm working on at the moment for a small project I'm co-directing with Antoine Carré. Check out more on my other patreon posts or on my discord!

Flocon 2

Here is a second shot I worked on for our project "Flocon" codirected by Antoine Carré and me.

PS : Added text to each of the images, to explain each step.

Flocon 1

Hi all! In this beggining of year I have been waiting for the greenlight of a secet project. While I wait, I have been working on a little film with my talented friend Antoine Carré. I will be sharing the process behind different shots I worked on.

PS(i tested this new kind of post because the normal one wasn't working, each image has a little description, had to keep the text short becasuse there is a max of 140 symbols)

UNCANNY ALLEY EP01- MAKING OF

Hi all ! Have been doing a full making of video for each of the Uncanny Alley shorts I did for Adult Swim Smalls, I will be posting the next ones soon!

Making of

Last post I did I showed you this rough animation, I have been busy working on a 30 sequence and wanted to share this shot making of with you.

 Here is the first rough animation I used it as a base for the tiedown

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Uncanny Alley- Shot making of

Hi all!

Here is a shot breakdown from episode 2 of uncanny alley! And some news at the end...

This shot was one of the longest to do from the series of shorts, it's quite long and fully animated.

The main tricks I used to speed up the animation process as much as possible was using 3d models and using live footage for rooscopy or reference. This shot is a good exemple of how I used those tecniques.

1- Here is my animatic shot, here I tried focus on timing. The model i...

UCANNY ALLEY- Procreate 01

A timelapse of one of the subliminal shots of episode two of Uncanny Alley ( you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziaAixpypAM) ) Was so much fun to this backgrounds just in black and white!

Playground- Procreate 01

Here is a concept art I did for my playground pitch...

I did a lot of concept arts and all of the backgrounds for Uncanny Alley on procreate so I will be sharing some of them!

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions!

Update on Hacker situation!

Hi all! As some of you might have heard or noticed, my youtube account got deleted.

This is due to it being highjacked by a hacker, during 1 day it became a cryptomoney youtube account. And after multiple reports it got deleted.

This all started with a hack in all my google accounts that blocked me from accessing my gmail, drive, youtube etc… The last couple of days have been stressful as I had to try to recover all my google accounts and accounts linked to google ( patreon was...

Uncanny Alley- WIP3

Here is another shot breakdown.

Here is a first animatic, in this version the shot ended wihout the character entering the frame.

 This shot is greatly inspired from an image I took from a trip in scotland, I wanted to get an ambiance similiar to it.

Here is the photo reference I used for the shot. ...

Uncanny Alley- WIP 2

Another breakdown of a shot of Uncanny Alley Episode 01 .Here are some initial drawings for the "maggot man"

 Here is a final design in color before the decision to make the shorts in black and white. His design was made with two components in mind. First he had to look like a bloated human, and from his skin maggots would pop out and at the same time the maggots poping ot of his body had to ha...

Uncanny Alley- WIP

Here is a breakdown of two shots of episode 01 of "Uncanny Alley"

Here is the animatic version, this drawings were made on my sketchbook to have a overall vision of the episode. Here It's more about timing and shot transition that making nice drawings.

Here is the rough/ tiedown pass. The first shot I used rotoscopy of my hand that I retimed. The next shot is animated in staight ahead mag...

Uncanny Alley- Animatic 02

Here is a post to share the animatic of episode 2 of Uncanny Alley.

Firstly I wanted to share some questions for the "its nice that" article https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rodrigo-sousa-uncanny-alley-adult-swim-animation-project-190624:

1. What inspired the tryptic of animated shorts? 

Uncanny Alley- Animatic 01

Hi all!

I want to share the final animatic I did for episode 01 of Uncanny alley. I was proposed by adult swim to do 3 short films for the "adult swim smalls " program. They gave me a lot of freedom to do whatever I wanted to explore and were interested in a horror focused series of shorts. After pitching and presenting a synopsis they game me approval to proceed. Here is a link to an interview I gave on this series: 2024-06-24 11:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Adult swim - WIP some shots

Some shots I have been doing in the last few days. This are from my last short film.

Adult Swim Smalls- Nightmare scene

One more finished sequence for my upcoming Adult Swim smalls shorts, I am finishing 3 episodes of 2 minutes mid may, looking forward to show ytou the final result!

Adult Swim Smalls-short animation

Adult swim smalls-Wip

Some more backgrounds for adult swim smalls!

2024-04-06 12:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Pepper grinder- Devolver Digital

Last year I worked on the art direction on a video game trailer for the upcoming Pepper grinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwNEwDlfCfA , here are some drawings I did! I did some initial work on the project directed by CRCR ( collectiv of directors https://www.instagram.com/crcr_studio/ ), and storyboard by Jocelyn Charles 2024-04-04 09:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Adult Swim Smalls sneak peak

Adult Swim Smalls Bg2

Adult Swim Smalls- Some animatic shots

Here are some some shots I rough animated !

2024-02-25 11:21:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Playground rough concepts 3

Playground shot- Making of

Here is a breakdown of one of the shots from Playground.

I will first do some rough drawings on my sketchbooks to find the framing idea for the shot. If it's a long shot I will do multiple drawings, in this case there is a complex camera movement so I did 4 sketches.

Once I'm happy with them I will time the drawings to do a storyboard /animatic.

In this case I used this initial draw...