Skills that pay the Bills

Caçarola - Crackies

2011-10-12T10:59:00.001+01:00

Big production with Director of Photography, Food stylist, production and way too many people on the set... and then I remade most of it digitally eh eh..... eh ... sob...

M3 - Se o telefone toca

2011-08-30T17:53:00.001+01:00

Sometimes I get to direct some live action as well...

APOR

2011-08-30T15:07:00.001+01:00

Alfa - As músicas do Alfa

2011-08-30T15:01:00.001+01:00

Praias do Porto

2011-08-30T15:00:00.001+01:00

Phineas e Ferb

2011-08-30T14:57:00.002+01:00

O Mundo e Facil

2010-12-23T14:25:00.002Z

Yet another stopmo. This one has tons of After Effects on it, but who cares?!

Boa Noite

2010-12-23T14:15:00.001Z

I made this one a long time ago as a test for a goodnight clip. I don´t get to do full animation very often, so here it is..

Linhas De torres Vedras

2010-12-21T16:02:00.001Z

Me and my wife just made this one :P

Barbarian

2010-12-21T15:37:00.002Z

Men with big muscles, no brain and a blind urge to kill everything that moves before them. Ah... you gotta love them.

Anaquim

2010-12-21T15:24:00.005Z

CD cover and booklet

Ulisses CM Lisboa

2010-12-06T19:06:00.003Z

I´m bored...

2010-11-24T12:23:00.002Z

António Silva

2010-11-23T19:27:00.001Z

Photoshop with Cintiq

Saari

2010-11-18T18:54:00.001Z

In the beginning of 2009 I worked as an animator for Barcelona based studio Storfisk and Lisbon Based Sardinha em Lata.
The project was Saari.

Saari "Blue" from Veronica Lassenius on Vimeo.

Grupotico

2010-09-26T15:36:00.004+01:00

Another stopmo...

Spider(cart)man

2010-09-02T12:31:00.001+01:00

New Sketchbook!!

2010-08-04T17:15:00.003+01:00

Just lost the sketchbook from my trip to Annecy 2010. I had 4 pages left to draw and then I was going to digitize it.
I´m really sad, not for my drawings, but I had sketches of Peter de Seve, Matt Groening , Lorelay Bove and Bill Perkins.
Anyway, I focused all my frustration on starting a brand new sketchbook, and inspired by the world wide sketchcrawl and urban sketchers I am sketching more than ever.

I just came from Avanca 2010, where I took a workshop by the great Wim Vandekeybus , and I finished a new sketchbook in the 4 days of the festival uhuuuu!!!

Check it out here.

Reel 2010 ... so far...

2010-07-02T16:08:00.002+01:00

PortfolioAnnecy2010

2010-06-24T15:27:00.000+01:00

Pasta Cafe

2009-07-23T12:29:00.003+01:00

Some old Illustrations for a Kids Menu

Oh my neglected Blog

2009-01-22T23:40:00.002Z

4 new pieces...

Character Search...

2009-01-19T23:40:00.004Z

I just cut my new year´s resolution way too soon!
Well, still I will try to post as much as possible.
I will start a section with animated Lindy Hop moves, and I´m character searching...

Late Again

2009-01-16T01:25:00.001Z

Hey...

Does this one counts as a posted piece? ... anybody?!...

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This one counts as... ok it doesn´t...

Get off those Pills

2009-01-14T00:34:00.003Z

I Posted 37 minutes to Late!!!

Arghhh!!!

This one counts as a 13th January...

Finally a post on time :)

2009-01-12T19:06:00.004Z

This post Belongs... TODAY!!! It´s a party!!!!!!

Purple Nightmare

2009-01-12T00:22:00.002Z

This one still counts as yesterday...

Too tired to catch up...

Who knows tomorrow...

Paper Work

2009-01-11T00:47:00.002Z

So this one counts as 10th January... My second Cycle this year :)

El Pulpo

2009-01-11T00:41:00.003Z

Yes, I am a mess, I´m not posting the way it was suposed to be.
So, this image counts as January 9th and last image I posted counts as January 8th, I will still Post today,...today´s image. I mean, yesterday´s image, because I normally post at night and It´s allready the 11th January...
Hey, I´m making a big effort to keep my new years resolution :)
I wonder if I can keep up like this the whole year...

2009 First loop

2009-01-09T02:43:00.005Z

It´s almost 3 am, tomorrow I will have to get up early, and I decided to do a little cycle... What was I thinking of?!

Good evening Mr. Johnston

2009-01-07T22:23:00.007Z

Yesterday, I wasn´t able to upload images, I don´t know why... :(
All the dates are getting messy, but I´m making an efort not to let any day pass without a post. Tougher than I thought...

My blue hair

2009-01-07T02:04:00.001Z

Fight for the Princess

2009-01-07T00:45:00.001Z

This one belongs yesterday...

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

2009-01-05T18:18:00.001Z

Well...

Pirate Arrow

2009-01-05T01:45:00.004Z

Well, I didn´t make it on time, but this one counts as a 4th of January post.
Another Cintiq and Flash. This time not so clean. I like the freshness of some lines and I didn´t want to lose it on clean up.
The composition still feels a bit weird though. The part on the right doesn´t look... err... right...

Hotktupuss Fight

2009-01-03T22:41:00.003Z

I wasn´t very pleased with yesterday´s post, so I spent some time last night trying to raise the bar!
It´s really cool that there´s Flash and a 21 inch Cintiq to rely on.

On the second day... sketches

2009-01-02T23:13:00.002Z

Still didn´t go home this year. I´ve been sketching around, but still no finished pieces...

New Year´s Resolution!!

2009-01-01T23:02:00.002Z

Happy 2009 Everybody!!

For this next year, I decided to post on a daily basis!
For every post, I will make a sketch, full illustration or an animation. I will also be posting some old stuff, but those won´t count for the, at least, 365 new pieces I will do.
For today, I have a quick sketch of my wife that has recenly started to make her own clothes.

Keep visiting, for everyday you´ll find something new.

Cheers

Jorge Ribeiro

Bricomarche

2008-12-22T19:01:00.003Z

Stop Motion is becomming very popular nowadays, so I´m being asked to follow this trend. Here´s 4 different spots we made with borrowed materials. All shot under a Canon 40D in the studio. Then we add some inserts made in flash.

XFX

2008-12-19T01:10:00.003Z

It´s been a loooong time since my last post. I´ll track down what I´ve been up to this year and I´ll try to update this blog with a zillion posts pretty soon. Here goes a 10 second spot I made in Flash, After Fx, Photoshop and Moho

Simplex 2008

2008-02-13T17:40:00.004Z

Just finished 5 of these!
Fun to animate under the camera, and to look all around for props to use.
This was shot with a digital reflex camera and then digitally treated.

Por Ti2007

2008-01-26T23:47:00.001Z

This is how it turned out...

Storyboard for a Tv Comercial

2008-01-26T23:33:00.000Z

As the Art Director, this is the look I wanted to give to the film

The Crab and the Octupuss

2008-01-07T14:35:00.000Z

Some illustration work

2008-01-07T13:08:00.001Z

Been ilustratin´ lately...

Long Time no Post

2007-05-14T16:05:00.000+01:00

I haven´t been doing nothing interesting lately, so decided to post my contribution to the AACS encryption key controversy...

Boys For the Jobs

2007-02-14T11:07:00.000Z

Opening Credits for a Pilot Episode of a Live Action series.
Finnaly I had some time to work and we ended up experimenting a lot more.
My wife did all the after effects composing and I, storyboarded, animated, created the whole visual part, made the music, played, sang, etc etc etc...

SPGM Emprestimo

2007-01-24T18:42:00.000Z

Another comercial...

One of those tough ones where I wanted to experiment a lot with the visuals but the client was constantly wanting me to move back for a more... traditional aproach.

After many battles lost, the only thing I kept in (I´m not even sure if the client noticed) were the benday dots.

Sketches...

2007-01-24T12:55:00.000Z

Sketchbook...

2007-01-24T12:52:00.000Z

Sketchbook...

2007-01-24T12:44:00.000Z

Espadinhas Zethoven

2007-01-23T12:05:00.000Z

Xmas time was aproaching, and the client needed a commercial for the next week. The whole Espadinhas team (me, plus an animator, an inbetweener, ink and paint person and 3D modeller) was working very hard to put on air a 40 second piece every working day (more about this soon, we ended up doing 190 episodes). They REALLY needed it, so, they canceled the show for a week to get the whole team working for this commercial. In that week, I had to storyboard the whole thing, make the animatic, show it to the client and start the whole production process. The Backgrounds are all in 3D that I had to sketch and supervise step by step all the scenes. There are also lots of sfx that take years to render and fine tune. On top of all that work, I had to make character design for the kids in the choir and animate all the main animation. This is what turned out...

Some vector-graphic ilustrations...

2007-01-17T12:23:00.000Z

Sotinco

2007-01-17T11:55:00.000Z

One of my toughest assignements yet.

It´s very hard for me to draw superheros, and this particular client wanted me to do a superhero Jim Lee style. I tried to do that, and I came out with the character design for the print materials. They loved it so much that it created a big expectation on how the actual movie would be. But...

One thing is a single pin up, the other thing is to animate it. And aaaaarghhh it was tough! The film just kept coming and going back to the client and they weren´t pleased with anything.

The final result is far from satisfatory to me, but I as actually impressed by myself as I never thought I could draw Superhero´s Marvel style.

TVTEL jornais

2007-01-17T11:40:00.000Z

I was asked to do the whole look of this comercial for an internet service provider. The agency had the script of a super fast dog delivering information to his master´s door.My main goal here was to keep the animation as snappy as I could. I focused myself on not doing things too fluid, because I wanted to break the movement a bit, so, for instance in the last scene before the packshot when the dog comes in to the pile of newspapers, I have one frame of the dogs paw gettin on screen and then POW, the whole dog´s there just settling.

On the pack shot, I had to compose my 2D animation with the 3D of the product.

Mute (Disturbance)- Blunder

2007-01-16T10:57:00.000Z

Created in 2003 and produced single handed in one month!
I was asked to make a music video for this Portuguese band called Blunder. The music, as well as the whole album, was based on an original Story where the main character, William, didn´t speak. In this song we experience the willingness of the character to be heard. As I heard the pitch, I went home and finished the storyboard and the animatic in a couple of days. Then, after aproval, I started the animation process. There wasn´t much time. The record company needed the final product within a month, but I didn´t want to do anything limited, and, as I wanted to prove myself I could do it on my own, the only solution was to work like a dog...
Most of the animation jobs I get don´t give me time to even think about what I´m doing. Every client I get want´s a finished animation piece for the next week or two. I actually like this kind of chalenge as I´m aspiring to become the fastest animator on the face of the earth (I know, Ub Iwerks, I´m still nothing compared to you). I started working every morning at 10 am and only stopped to eat. Then I would go back to the drawing board and every day finished working at 2 am. Once a week I would go to the client to show the finished shots and I would take the rest of the day off just to keep my sanity.
The whole animation is made with a paintbrush so that I could achieve the particular look I was aiming for, and then scanned in and painted digitally. I used two or three layers of dirt in front of each shot and had them animated left to right and other right to left, so there´s allways this fog surrounding the characters.On top of all that, I filmed a blank 8mm film projected onto a sand white wall, and used it to create an old movie atmosphere.
By the end of the deadline, I actually needed a bit of help, so I asked my wife to animate the rain shot. The one where you see the rain falling right on the camera. That´s the only shot I didn´t do.
After all my shots were completed, the film was edited and some effects were added, like jitter in the part where William screams at the window. Some colour corrections were made to keep the clip as a whole and voila!

A new blog awakens

2007-01-16T10:29:00.000Z

I´ve been thinking about creating a website to post my work on for a long time, but I never seem to have time to even think of it. So, I decided to have my work online the easiest way. That is, start a new blog and hope it will evolve to an amazing web page full of neat stuff.