RAQUEL CARMO DOS SANTOS

UA laboratory set up especially to develop one of the most appreciated arts in the world begins its activities at Unicamp. This is the Image and Sound Laboratory (LIS), which intends to invest in innovative technologies for cartoon production. The Institute of Arts (IA) and the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) will use the latest in computer graphics techniques for animation and have already carried out the embryonic work Thank you...Dalva, a short film completely developed by the LIS team, with a script by professor Wilson Lazaretti, from the Institute of Arts.

The approximately ten-minute video mixes conventional animation techniques with scenes designed in three dimensions and premiered at Unicamp on December 11th.

Installations - The laboratory facilities, located at the Unicamp Convention Center, were fully suitable for projects that are directly linked to the Department of Plastic Arts at IA. It has a drawing room with benches and drawing boards, an auditorium for showing videos, a studio for puppet animation, table top equipment for the photography process with animation and an administrative area.

Professor Carlos Fernandes, coordinator of the Laboratory, highlights that, in addition to creating and producing animation works, the group will also provide technical support in the area of ​​image and sound for the community. At the Department of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation at FEEC, the project is coordinated by professor José Mário De Martino.

New projects - The next projects of the LIS team, mostly made up of students from the Institute of Arts, will be working on the production of a feature-length animated film based on the play Rei Mateuzinho. "We will create and produce images for an animated children's opera", says Fernandes. According to Lazaretti, it will be a great challenge, as Brazil has no tradition in this area. "I estimate that 12 full-length animated films have already been produced in the country."

The project began at USP's School of Communication and Arts with professors Eduardo Seicman (composer) and Marcelo Tassara. The Campinas Animation Cinema Center was invited to work together and organize a work plan and an animation team has already been working on the production for a year. Unicamp creates its link with the project through LIS and FEEC. The animation team is made up of students from the Animated Drawing discipline of the Artistic Education course at the Institute of Arts.

The story tells the life of a boy of approximately 10 years old, who becomes king and has to assume the throne and positions of an adult. The work is based on the book by Polish author Jannus Korszak.