Curriculum

2023-current-Masters Degree in Game Design and Development(UBI)
2024- Halloween Game Jam #1(UBI)
2024- Global Game Jam
2023-2024- Unreal Engine 5 Course (UBI)
2023-Techniques for Digital Animation(UBI)
2020-2023-Bachelor's Degree in Cinema at UBI( University of Beira Interior Portugal)

Skills: Digital and Traditional Drawing, Script Writting,Storyboarding, Sound and Video Editing

Programs Used the Most:
Aseprite, Clip Studio Paint, Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Audacity

Videogames

Honk Honk
Global Game Jam 2024
Aseprite

• Game

Honk Honk is a game about a young clown trying to earn the respect of the seniors in her circus.
The rookie's mission is to make the others coworkers laugh while they pretend to act sad.
If she is successful, Honk Honk, will receive the most desired prize a clown could get.

Forgotten in the Dark
2023-2024 UBI
Aseprite, Clip Studio Paint

• Game

Forgotten in the Dark is a game in which John, a young medical student, searches for answers to something he saw years prior.
After trespassing propery, he falls into the University's underground hidden labs where he finds horrors beyond his comprehension.
His objective is now survive and leave the lab.

Project Dream Knights/Game Concept
2023 Personal Project
Aseprite, Clip Studio Paint, Blender

Project Dream Knights, is a concept game where Daniel, a Dream Hunter, has to hunt down and fight the person that is bringing dreams and nightmares to the dream world, before they are brought into the real world.

Animation

A Pastora (The Sheepherder)
2023 Techniques for Digital Animation (UBI)
Clip Studio Paint, Animate

• First Scene

A Pastora, is a short animation movie inspired in a traditional portuguese music about a sheepherder and the fact that the village thinks shes lonelly while in the mountains, while she tells them that her lover is with her.
The movie shows her life as the lover of the Star of local stories.

To Drown Myself
2022 Comtemporary Artistic Movements (UBI)
Clip Studio Paint

• Final Version

To Drown Myself is a short animation movie about peope not feeling right in their skin.
The movie specificly talks about the feelings of someone that experiences gender dysphoria.

Dancing Shadows
2021-2022 Directing (UBI)
Clip Studio Paint, Opentoonz, Animate

• Final Version

• Dancing Test

Dancing Shadows is a short movie about not judging a person by the first things we see of them.
It is a love story about two people that meet in the shadows, later being found out that they're both girls, the objective is to normalize the thinking around gender and sexuality.

About

Maria (Mar) gets inspired by anything around them, making them build worlds about anything that interests them.
They love to learn new things and try to pass down those learnings through what they make.