Instituto Bienal
Amazonia.

As a Contract Animator for the Instituto Bienal Amazonia, I was brought on to create immersive animation elements for the Bienal das Amazônias — one of South America's most significant contemporary art exhibitions, featuring 74 renowned artists and welcoming over 200,000 attendees.

My specific project centered on the work of Peter Minshall — the legendary Trinidadian artist and costume designer whose work spans carnival, performance, and visual art. I was entrusted with handling hundreds of his private assets, original sketches, and in-progress works — a responsibility that required both technical precision and deep cultural sensitivity.

The creative challenge: make the drawings come alive as if Peter Minshall himself were drawing them in real time. Using Adobe Illustrator, I traced and vectorized his original hand-drawn sketches. I then imported each vector into After Effects and meticulously animated the paths line by line — so each stroke would appear to be drawn live, replicating the motion, weight, and personality of his hand.

The hardest part of this project was not technical — it was logistical and human. Collaborating across multiple teams in different time zones, managing hundreds of assets with version control, and staying creatively aligned with curators and engineers who were thousands of miles away required a level of professional discipline and communication I had never been tested on before. I delivered everything on schedule, fully remote, without ever setting foot in Brazil.