Team

Gorila Crew

Hugo Takahashi
Hugo Takahashi has a 35-year career. He started in the 1980s as an animator in advertising films and in the 1990s he began his international career in the feature film 'Anastasia' by Fox Animation Studios. Back in Brazil, he was a founding partner of the Animatório studio, later a partner at Lobo/Vetor Zero and between 2013 and 2016 a partner at Split Studio. In 2019 he founded Gorila Filmes with his current partner Raul Vanussi.
Raul Vanussi
Raul Vanussi has a degree in Animation Design and a postgraduate degree in Cinema, Video and TV from Belas Artes de São Paulo. He has worked as an animator since 2011. He has supervised and produced several projects for TV series, shorts and feature films. Since 2019, he has worked as executive director and animation director with his partner Hugo Takahashi for Gorila Filmes.
Larissa Uehara
Larissa Uehara is an audiovisual producer, screenwriter and actress. Graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from ESPM-SP. She works mainly in the Brazilian animation industry, having participated in productions of various formats, such as TV series, advertising films, short and feature films, videoclips and games. Currently, she works as line producer on several Gorila Filmes projects.
Davi Machado
Davi Machado had started studying rigging and cut-out animation at 'Combo Studio' and at the 'Animação Online' school in 2020. He worked as a freelance animator on YouTube projects called: "Pq faz isso Ferdinando?" and "SHEEPELITOS" between 2021 and 2023. He is currently an Animation Assistant on several projects at Gorila Filmes.

Gorila Associates:

Ariel Jaeger
Associate film director and head of Campana Filmes, he dedicates his talent and vision to helping brands and people publicize their products and services, transforming ideas into films that engage and awaken emotions in a strategic and creative way.
Molabe is an audiovisual post-production studio with projects ranging from advertising to entertainment. It seeks to connect the best professionals, techniques and tools to translate ideas into consistent products based on processes focused on branding and communication.
Fábio Marino
Fábio Marino works as a motion designer and visual effects composer for the advertising and entertainment industry. Currently, hes projects include Molabe - an audiovisual post-production studio - and Labe Cinético, which aims to research and publish material on the different aspects of Motion Design.
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