Lais Tissiani Dutra

Lais Tissiani Dutra

Birth : 1987-06-19, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

History

Lais Tissiani Dutra (born June 19, 1987) is a Brazilian artist. She is a Bachelor of Fine Arts, graduated at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She's an Art Director, Background Artist and Look Development Artist working mostly with visual development and backgrounds on the animation industry. She worked as a Background Artist in two feature-films, "The Adventures of the Red Airplane" (2015) and "A Cidade dos Piratas" (2018), the former being her first job in the animation industry. Lais also worked as Art Director of a short film called "Apneia" (2019). This short movie received several awards, including Best Art Direction at the 42º Festival Guarnicê de Cinema in 2019. Her other works include Art Direction, Background Art and Look Development on many other TV and web series as well as her own personal work. Lais is currently is working in Ireland.

Profile

Lais Tissiani Dutra

Movies

Apneia
Art Direction
Her mother’s distance, her father’s absence, and the traumas provoked by her stepfather form an ocean inside the girl Muriel, who is afraid of swimming. The animation, directed by Carol Sakura and Walkir Fernandes, poetically approaches through verbal and visual metaphors the experience of plunging into one's own pains so as to finally emerge.
A Cidade dos Piratas
Background Designer
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
The Adventures of the Red Plane
Background Designer
A film about imagination, in which the protagonist goes on internal journeys around the world, overcoming fears and making new discoveries.