The Senninha na pista Maluca project has been managed since 2018 by Split Studio, one of the largest Brazilian animation studios. It is one of the few Brazilian studios that truly embraces a remote culture, meaning it is a studio with an administrative headquarters but all of its employees and collaborators are literally spread across the world.
One of the studio’s partners and a great friend, Cid Makino, together with project manager Cleber Rosseto invited me to supervise the animation team in season 3 of the project, which is still under development. The experience has been wonderful. I am very grateful to them for the opportunity they gave me and I feel very honored by it. I love leading teams and it is an honor and joy to lead this animation team for the Senninha na Pista Maluca project.
The animation team is very enthusiastic and the idea and strategy for the project, given its tighter budget, is basicaly to work on reusing material in the animation with anwith a well-established animation standard and consistent with the budget.
That is why a reusing material bank was created, which did not exist before, as well as a dos and don’ts manual, which also did not exist, aiming at greater efficiency in creating scenes.
The results have been very positive, as another proposal within the project, I am trying to adopt a policy of greater collaboration and autonomy, self-responsibility and greater proactivity within the animation team. This creates a greater collaborative environment and trains the professional to become more efficient in the processes of self-management of time and work throughout their professional career, creating true professionals prepared for remote work and collaborative projects in which everyone really participates actively in the process.
Below you can see an episode from one of the previous seasons, whose visual result is similar but with some changes and animation rules created to create a standard that did not exist before and improve the efficiency that is necessary due to the tighter budget.