Guilherme Marcondes Kostas Kiriakakis

Opening animation sequence produced for Guy Moshe's film "BUNRAKU", narrated by Mike Patton.

About:

Lives in Crete, Greece

From Athens, Greece

Received no formal art training

Illustrates for just about any project he can find including commercial illustration, books, graphics novels, periodicals and his blog.

ART

Mostly illustration

Well known for his blog and Muse series

Draws in many styles for commercial work

Some of Kiriakakis's commercial illustration works. Note many illustrative styles.

Sample from The 'Mused' Gallery. Page 14 from A day in the park

Spent most of his childhood drawing in front of the TV in São Paulo, Brazil.

He somehow ended up in Architecture School (something he describes as a miscalculation)

Begins working as an illustrator while still in post-secondary

Through a friend he ends up working for an animation company called Lobo (its now a much bigger and well respected graphic design studio) See Link here: http://www.lobo.cx

Now produces many commercial spots and independent short projects for several companies including LOBO, Hornet, and others.

Some big spots include: McDonalds, The Sun, British Gas, Hyundai, and Google. (amongst others)

ARTWORK

Marcondes's Artwork examines relationships between humans and our constructed environments.

Dreamscapy

animations in "real space"

multi-media

Spent 2 weeks as MIT resident artist developing prototype space narratives in video games with MIT students and faculty from the GAMBIT Game Lab. (after extensive research I still do not know what this prototype looked at).