Curating a varied collective of animation talent, CD Ralph Karam and the team at Final Frontier interpret facets of the creative process in this multi-technique manifesto film for the 2024 edition of the venerable CLIO Awards.

With audio by Antfood, the project includes a variety of 2D and 3D animation from Pablo Alfieri/Chroma Bureau, Andrea Devia-Nuño, Yukai Du, Juan Behrens, Lobster, Bernardo Henning, Daniel Semanas, Verso Studio, and Dirty Work.
 

“The concept of the film is also a very good visual and sensory metaphor for how our creative process unfolds: a polished diamond that emerges from the raw stone.”

 
Ralph Karam: “The film reflects on the creative process and how it works for us, from the genesis of a raw stone as an idea, and its multiple possibilities and potentialities to the final and bold idea. Then the process begins: we start ‘touching’ the ideas, putting them to the test, rejecting them, reshaping them, and eventually becoming intertwined with them; we change alongside the ideas.

After that comes the more interesting part, experimentation, which, in our case, always happens collectively, as a team with different visions, backgrounds, and perspectives. The concept of the film is also a very good visual and sensory metaphor for how our creative process unfolds: a polished diamond that emerges from the raw stone.”
 
 

 

Client: CLIO Awards

Production: Final Frontier
Creative Director: Claus Cibils, Dauquen Chabeldin, Diego Rojas, Ralph Karam
Poster Artist: Jordy Blu Moo, Lucas Tunde, Lui Nogueira, Piki Farelli, Ralph Karam.
EP: Gustavo Karam, Julieta Zajaczkowski
Head of Production: Mary Antonieta Lopez
Producer: Julia Francucci
Production Assistant: Santiago Antin
Creative Team: Agustina Kröl, Natalia Fernandez, Sid Osna
PR: Guillermina Gómez

General Director: Ralph Karam
Script: Sid Osna, Agus Kroll

Directors (in order of appearance):

Pablo Alfieri / Chroma Bureau
Team: Alex Levinton, Borja Alegre, Macs Riedel, Naty Lara, Twisted Mountain Animation

Andrea Devia-Nuño
Assistant Director: Agostina Carrera
Team: Santiago Oddis, Bruno Brasil, Denis Bargos
3D Animator: Lui Nogueira, Agostina Carrera
Comp: Lui Nogueira

Yukai Du
Team: Yukai Du, Fernando Lamatina.

Juan Behrens

Lobster
Director: Nikolay Ivanov
Team: Teodor Hristov

Bernardo Henning
Team: Bernardo Henning, Margherita Premuroso

Daniel Semanas

Verso Studio
Team: Diego Gastelut, Javier García Munuera, Nicolás Basílico Miara

Dirty Work
Director: Faga Melo, Gustavo Leal
EP: Ito Andery
Account Director: Larissa Virco
Head of production: Jéssica Sales
Animatic: Jefferson Lima
Illustrator: Fernando Molina, Mika Ramalho
Animation Director: Jefferson Lima Traditional
Animator: Jeff Lima, João Maurício Batista, Julia Balthazar, Renatoons, Daiane Mateus, Brenda Maryan
3D Generalist: Douglas Benvenutti, Raul Cawalcanti
3D Animator: Caique Moretto, Douglas Benvenutti
Render: Douglas Benvenutti
Motion/comp: Caique Moretto.

Music/sound design: Antfood
Creative Director: Lou Schmidt, Fernando Rojo, Tiago Mago
EP: Renato Castro, Christiane Rachel
Music Producer: Lou Schmidt, Fernando Rojo, Tiago Mago, Luis Bergmann, Vinicius Nunes, Lucas Baldin
Producer: Fernando Ianni e Monique Munhoz
Mixing Engineer/Sound Designer: Bruno Broaska, Fabian Jorge, Pablo Homem de Mello

VO: Marian Mills