Mariana Noronha

@noronhatastic.bsky.social

Art Director at Blue Zoo / Prev: Nickelodeon, Wild Child Anim / 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇹Fruity colours and cheesy puns www.mcnoronha.com

Close ups of the bike model :D All done using Blender and CSP It was so fun to do all the texture detail! I am very painterly in 2D, so it was a blast to incorporate it into the mapping of it all! PS: I am sorry to all the 3D Artists that have to work from my concepts, you deserve a raise 🤣

This is the flying, crystal-powered survey bike from my personal project, Clouded Judgement!  It's a vehicle built for mobility and research, not speed so that it can explore the inhospitable terrain that the volcanos present!

Every couple of days my partner does a frantic run right before bed to set up the washing machine timer for the next morning. Can't miss out on those precious daylight hours! I always say that she reminds me of those racoons that wash their food on water streams! This one is for you babe ! 🦝👕

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It's now Spring, the sun is out and I feel fuzzy and warm ✨️🌈 I'm working on being more decisive with my painting in digital. I always noodle indefinitely, but approaching as if I were painting traditionally really helps me :)) Also I'm deep in the trenches of Witch Hat Atelier, can you tell?

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Someone said that your best work is not made at your desk and I feel that! It's when I go on adventures with friends that I can see the world around me and get my best ideas! This is the piece that I will dissect step by step in my Warrior Art Camp "Funky Buildings and Stylised Design" class :D

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I am starting a studio! We are small and scrappy and have no money. Why am I doing this? Because the only ones who can protect art are the ones who value it. Disney using AI? Yuck. Netflix buying WB? Also yuck. In 10 years what is even going to be left.

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My favourite BG from the Brawlstars Gigi trailer with Half Giany ! My toxic trait is adding ellipses to everything I design, so I manifested the mother of all layouts: a) round room, b) furniture facing different planes c) fish eye d) low angle e) CHARACTER WITH 10000 arms??!! It was super fun tho!

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Some exciting news! I recently started as Art Director at Blue Zoo Animation Studio :) To say that the last few months have been chaotic would be an understatement, but, throughout it all, I have been incredibly lucky to be surrounded by such an amazing art community.

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Tiny painting! This is the piece I painted during the Warrior Painters and Concept 101 meet up last week in Greenwich park! It was a lovely afternoon and the sights were gorgeous. I am honestly surprised at myself that I managed to yap at everyone AND make a painting?? Wow

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Callout sheet for the motorbike! :D This is the motorbike that the characters in my personal project make together. It is a means of transportation that allows them to get to volcanos up close to facilitate collecting samples and monitoring its behaviour. >

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WIP! Currently designing the bike that Robin and Talia build in my personal project "Clouded Judgement". I have always liked mechs, but have not dived in too much into it before. Well now's the time and I am having a lot of fun getting WAY too tangled in the physics and feasibility of it! >

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