Original Animated Short · 2026Film coming soon

Raimundo e a Tela

Raimundo seated beside his easel, palette in hand, inside his turquoise coastal studio — Selected visual developmentCharacter / Studio / Coastal light

Original ShortCharacter DesignVisual DevelopmentAI-assisted Image Making

01 / Project overview

A fisherman paints the world he knows. Then the world begins to look back.

Story

Raimundo is a fictional fisherman from Ceará who likes to paint. In his modest house by the sea, the everyday and the imagined begin to overlap. The current visual sequence takes an easel from the studio to the beach, then reverses the roles of painter and subject.

Visual language

Warm coastal light, worn turquoise plaster and expressive character shapes meet a more openly painterly world. Raimundo’s appearance draws inspiration from artist Raimundo Cela; the fisherman, house and story are fictional, not a biographical reconstruction.

02 / Character development

One painter.
Four lives at sea.

Raimundo’s long silhouette, dense black mustache and work-worn clothes anchor the story. The four fishermen are distinguished through posture, costume, hat shape and the way each body carries weight.

Raimundo character development sheet with three-quarter figure, turnaround, face studies, hand and costume details, gesture drawings and color swatches — Raimundo / Character studyAI-assisted design study

The fishermen

The crew belongs to the more openly painted world. These approved reference studies consolidate the existing characters through multiple views, working gestures and material details.

Character sheet for the straw-hatted fisherman in brown trousers, with compact mustache and goatee — Fisherman 01 / Hat and brown trousersAI-assisted design study

Character sheet for the hatless fisherman with short curls, rust-colored shirt and blue-grey rolled trousers — Fisherman 02 / Rust shirtAI-assisted design study

Character sheet for the bald fisherman in an ivory shirt and slate blue-grey rolled trousers — Fisherman 03 / Bare scalpAI-assisted design study

Character sheet for the second straw-hatted fisherman, distinguished by his lower hat crown and blue-grey trousers — Fisherman 04 / Hat and blue-grey trousersAI-assisted design study

AI-assisted reference studies, not archival hand drawings. Raimundo’s original model sheets remain the identity baseline; the new views consolidate that design rather than replace earlier approved frames.

03 / Environment development

A house of everyday rituals.

Painting, coffee and rest give the house its rhythm. Turquoise plaster, terracotta, worn timber and side light connect the atelier, kitchen and bedroom without turning the modest home into a polished artist’s loft.

Raimundo’s modest turquoise house with a terracotta roof standing alone beside the beach — A house by the seaSelected setting image

Atelier environment study with turquoise interior, easel viewed from behind, cutaway, proposed layout, objects and materials — Atelier / Light, objects and materialsAI-assisted design study

Kitchen environment study with moka pot, yellow stove, blue-rimmed cup, inferred wider layout and material details — Kitchen / The coffee cornerAI-assisted design study

Bedroom environment study with narrow timber bed, linen, blue-green curtain, chair and proposed room layout — Bedroom / Raimundo’s resting placeAI-assisted design study

Reference-based environment explorations. The cutaways and overhead layouts interpret unseen spaces; they are not measured plans or a verified map of how the rooms connect.

04 / The painting’s journey

First an image.
Then a place.

A portrait rests on the easel. The same object appears by the sea. Raimundo looks at the fisherman he painted; in the painted world, the fisherman looks back at an image of Raimundo. The shift is surreal and quiet, without a glowing portal or explanatory effect.

Canonical Raimundo painting at his easel, with only the back of the canvas visible — Narrative imageThe painter / Inside the studio

A painted straw-hatted fisherman on the canvas inside Raimundo’s studio — Narrative imageThe subject / A portrait revealed

The easel and the fisherman’s portrait standing alone on wet sand with the sea behind — Narrative imageThe displacement / Easel on the beach

Raimundo standing beside his easel near the sea, with his turquoise house behind — Narrative imageRaimundo / Between house and sea

Inside the painted world, a physical straw-hatted fisherman studies a painted portrait of Raimundo; a raft rests on the sand behind — Narrative imageThe reversal / Painter becomes subject

05 / The painted world

A life beyond the frame.

The fishermen are not a still arrangement. They adjust a sail, load traps and baskets, and ready the jangada for the sea. Closer views make room for the weight of objects, the texture of cloth and the familiarity of work.

A fisherman’s hands securing a white sail to the wooden mast beside the sea — Painted-world studyHands / Sail / Rope

Two fishermen positioning a woven fishing trap on the low timber raft — Painted-world studyManzuá / Loading the raft

A fisherman placing a woven basket among the jangada’s fishing equipment — Painted-world studySamburá / Objects of work

Close view of a white cloth sail and its rope against a blue ocean — Painted-world studyCloth / Wind / Coastal light

Four fishermen aboard a low timber jangada under a large white sail, surrounded by open sea — Painted-world studyThe jangada / Open sea

Object development

The jangada, up close.

A low timber deck, a large pale sail and visible working lines carry the same material language into the boat. The sheet explores form, materials and rigging; its inferred views are visual references, not measured construction plans.

Jangada sailing-raft study with low timber deck, large white sail, three-quarter, side, front and top views, rope, cloth, oar and fishing-equipment details — Jangada / Form, cloth and timberAI-assisted design study

06 / Title artwork

The title belongs to the wall.

Pale painted lettering sits on the same aged turquoise surface that defines Raimundo’s house. The original two-line artwork is retained here.

The original two-line title Raimundo e a Tela painted on a worn turquoise wall — Title artworkPainted lettering / Turquoise plaster

07 / Project details

An original short,
developed image by image.

Project: Raimundo e a Tela
Original personal project
Stage: Animated short in development.
Selected development images, not final film stills.
Scope: Concept · Character & Environment Design · Visual Development · Storyboarding
Method: AI-assisted image-making with Krea and GPT Image, guided by character references and continuity review.