Anna Cernawsky

Illustrator | 2D animator | Concept Artist | Comic Artist

SpurT is a graduation animated short I did alongside my two friends Catarina Azevedo and Patrícia Ventura.As our first animated short, we all agreed to rotate positions from time to time so everyone could experience all steps of animated movie-making. Therefore, we all contributed to everything and despite the mistakes of a first-time project, we learned so much! :
• Co-director and animator
• Participated in all steps of pipeline
• Promoted and submitted the short for festivalsSee all work I did related to this project and the short itself below! About the story:|     Three plant-like creatures are growing up together. At one point, one of them starts growing differently. A short about learning to accept change in others and ourselves.

O Velho e a Espada (En: “The Old man and the Sword”) is an independent comedy feature film to be released in 2024 by Fábio Powers.As part of the team I did:
• Prop and character design of the Sword, who happens to be one of the main characters
• Illustrations for promotional contentSee all work I did related to this project below! About the story:|     In a (once) peaceful village lost in the countryside, an unusual - and bibulous - alliance is made between a lonely old man and a demonic sword in order to break a terrible curse.

Kiva is a short movie project directed by my close friend Patrícia Ventura, that started as her master’s project back in 2018. It mixes both live action and 2D animation.The project is currently on hiatus, but as part of the team I was:
• Concept artist and character designer
• 2D lead animator
• Illustrator for promotional contentSee the trailer for this project here ! About the story:|     Kiva is forest faun that is trying to flee from the hunter who is coming for her. Hurt and scared, Kiva meets Vitor, a child who helps her escape.
Bárbara, Vitor’s mother, goes into the forest looking for her son, but finding him proves to be more challenging than she expected.

Scapegoat is a manga-inspired comic under development. The project started with the creation of a complete worldbuilding and narrative for an original comic and its relation to intertextuality, in the context of my master’s.
I do both argument and art.About the story:|     Agnus Dei is an utopic realm hidden from the world by a magical barrier. There is no disease, poverty or sadness. However, to obtain such gifts,a pair of twins called Azazels are cyclically sacrificed to keep the magic of the realm active.
The 12th child, tired of perpetual suffering, tries to save the next Azazels and escape to the outside world, where they will have to go through different struggles to survive and adapt.