Interviews Interview with animator Marta Tesoro ByDesign Montage July 20, 2011July 14, 2023 <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1584" title="Marta Tesoro Remedy" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Remedy_small.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro rocket" width="430" height="302" /></p> <p><a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta Tesoro</a> is a Melbourne based flash animator who makes super cool things do super cool things! She’s worked on some UNREAL projects and is currently working with <a title="Zactoons" href="http://www.zactoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zactoons</a>!</p> <p>On larger projects, Marta’s creative role brings the characters and backgrounds to life in each scene. When it’s a smaller project, Marta even creates the characters and props before animating. Just recently though, Marta was animating the backgrounds for the animated series <a title="Dukes of Broxstonia website" href="http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/microsites/dukesofbroxstonia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dukes of Broxstonia</a> – and even that was a lot of fun, she said.</p> <p>There’s many fantastic projects that Marta can proudly say she has worked on, and brought to life. These include: <a title="Faireez" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faireez</a>, <a title="Dogstar TV" href="http://www.dogstar.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dogstar season 01 and 02</a>, <a title="Divinyls music video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqHi5HkBRk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divinyls Music Video: Don’t wanna do this</a>, The Mob, <a title="Wakkaville website" href="http://www.wakkaville.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wakkaville</a>, <a title="Pixel Pinkie" href="http://www.pixelpinkie.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixel Pinky season 01</a>, <a title="Monster Chef" href="http://www.actf.com.au/sales-program/monster-chef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monster Chef</a>, <a title="Desdemona episode" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jWH6UVz2o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desdemona</a>, <a title="Little Johnny website" href="http://littlejohnnythemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Little Johnny</a>.</p> <p>Marta’s current mission is to draw every single day of 2011. Some of the awesome work included here are from this challenge. To see more of her daily posts – check out <a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta’s blog</a>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1593" title="Marta Tesoro TashomIII" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TashomIII1.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro TashomIII" width="430" height="588" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1581" title="Marta Tesoro The Gluttons" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Gluttons_SMALL.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro the glutton bears" width="430" height="291" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1588" title="Marta Tesoro Burning" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Burning_Small.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro burning" width="430" height="300" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1591" title="Marta Tesoro gym_girl" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/gym_girlsmall1.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro gym girl" width="430" height="646" /></p> <h2>How have you got to where you are today?</h2> <p>I always loved drawing, painting and being creative as a kid, and I always loved animations and cartoons. I wanted to be a part of that world.</p> <p>When I was in year 12 I went to the <a title="RMIT" href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RMIT</a> open day and I discovered the post graduate Animation and Interactive Media course. Since it was a post grad I couldn’t apply at the time so I went on to do Visual Arts in Monash for three years majoring in painting. I applied to the RMIT course as soon as I graduated and got in.</p> <p>Shortly after, I freelance on a lot of little jobs, eventually got a 7 month contract working on creating educational animations and then right before that ended I got a gig at <a title="Viskatoons" href="http://www.viskatoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viskatoons</a> working on the tv series <a title="Faireez" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faireez</a>.</p> <h2>In a few words, describe yourself…</h2> <p>Creative, hard working, active and a tad insane.</p> <h2>What are you spending your time on at the moment?</h2> <p>I am currently working on a pilot within a team of animators for <a title="Zactoons" href="http://www.zactoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zactoons</a>, finishing off a Flash RPG game and doing illustrations for Melbourne University. <span style="color: #d2232a;">In my personal time, I have embarked on a drawing challenge to draw everyday until December 31 2011 and all of my efforts can be seen on my <a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: #d2232a;">blog</span></a>.</span></p> <h2>Do you have a ritual for getting into the creative mindset? Or a creative process?</h2> <p>I tend to wake up with a battle plan on what needs to be done on that day. That said, when I get stuck, I tend to go to the gym, take a walk, draw something for myself, rifle through my artbooks to get back into the zone. <em><span style="color: #d2232a;">I have found that walking away from the computer is sometimes the best thing I can do to keep being creative.</span></em></p> <h2>What or who inspires you?</h2> <p>Art books inspire me often especially “The Art of …” books from animated films — most from <a title="Pixar" href="http://www.pixar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixar</a>, <a title="Disney website" href="http://home.disney.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney</a>, <a title="Dreamworks Website" href="http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dreamworks</a> and <a title="Ghibli studio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghibli </a>studios. Fashion Illustration tends to show up in my own work a lot of the time. I also love the work of <a title="Jhonen Vasquez wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhonen_Vasquez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jhonen Vasquez</a>.</p> <p>The people in my industry…what they do on their spare time and how they work professionally is what has always driven me to try and be better, faster and gives me an idea on how far I’ve come but how far I still need to go. They keep me both grounded and inspired.</p> <h2>What are you most proud of?</h2> <p><em><span style="color: #d2232a;">I am proud to have been part of a large number of Australian animated productions over the last few years, to have had the opportunity to work in so many different studio and to have met so many people who have become good friends.</span></em> I’m proud to have been involved in some amazing projects, many which have shown on Australian Television and some have screened overseas.</p> <h2>When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?</h2> <p><span style="color: #d2232a;">I wanted to be an artist, a painter originally, something for Disney and to be a part of animation. Most of it came true.</span></p> <div id="better-author-bio-div"> <div class="better-author-bio-div-info"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="http://www.designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JenicaAvatar_60x60.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="" class="avatar avatar-60 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-60 photo avatar-default" /></p> <h4>Written by Jenica Smith</h4> <p class="better-author-bio-div-meta">Passionate about storytelling, design and creativity, Jenica is a Brisbane-based digital designer and founder of Design Montage. Follow on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/designmontage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twitter</a>.</p> <ul> <li class="first"><a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/author/jenica_designwiz/"><br /> View all posts by Jenica Smith <span class="meta-nav">→</span> </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au" title="Read Jenica Smith’s blog">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="designmontage" title="Follow Jenica Smith on Twitter" rel="external">Twitter</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p><!-- end article section --></p> <hr /> <footer class="article-footer"> <p class="tags"> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/animator/" rel="tag">,Animator</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/australian-tv/" rel="tag">,Australian TV</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/interview/" rel="tag">,Interview</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/melbourne/" rel="tag">,Melbourne</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/tv-series/" rel="tag">,TV Series</a></p> </footer> <p> <!-- end article footer --></p> <p><!-- You can start editing here. --></p> <p><!-- If comments are closed. --><br /> <!--p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p--> <p> Visit Marta Tesoro’s website or read more creative interviews.
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1584" title="Marta Tesoro Remedy" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Remedy_small.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro rocket" width="430" height="302" /></p> <p><a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta Tesoro</a> is a Melbourne based flash animator who makes super cool things do super cool things! She’s worked on some UNREAL projects and is currently working with <a title="Zactoons" href="http://www.zactoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zactoons</a>!</p> <p>On larger projects, Marta’s creative role brings the characters and backgrounds to life in each scene. When it’s a smaller project, Marta even creates the characters and props before animating. Just recently though, Marta was animating the backgrounds for the animated series <a title="Dukes of Broxstonia website" href="http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/microsites/dukesofbroxstonia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dukes of Broxstonia</a> – and even that was a lot of fun, she said.</p> <p>There’s many fantastic projects that Marta can proudly say she has worked on, and brought to life. These include: <a title="Faireez" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faireez</a>, <a title="Dogstar TV" href="http://www.dogstar.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dogstar season 01 and 02</a>, <a title="Divinyls music video" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqHi5HkBRk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divinyls Music Video: Don’t wanna do this</a>, The Mob, <a title="Wakkaville website" href="http://www.wakkaville.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wakkaville</a>, <a title="Pixel Pinkie" href="http://www.pixelpinkie.tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixel Pinky season 01</a>, <a title="Monster Chef" href="http://www.actf.com.au/sales-program/monster-chef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monster Chef</a>, <a title="Desdemona episode" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jWH6UVz2o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desdemona</a>, <a title="Little Johnny website" href="http://littlejohnnythemovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Little Johnny</a>.</p> <p>Marta’s current mission is to draw every single day of 2011. Some of the awesome work included here are from this challenge. To see more of her daily posts – check out <a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marta’s blog</a>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1593" title="Marta Tesoro TashomIII" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/TashomIII1.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro TashomIII" width="430" height="588" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1581" title="Marta Tesoro The Gluttons" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/The-Gluttons_SMALL.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro the glutton bears" width="430" height="291" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1588" title="Marta Tesoro Burning" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Burning_Small.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro burning" width="430" height="300" /><br /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1591" title="Marta Tesoro gym_girl" src="http://designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/gym_girlsmall1.jpg" alt="Marta Tesoro gym girl" width="430" height="646" /></p> <h2>How have you got to where you are today?</h2> <p>I always loved drawing, painting and being creative as a kid, and I always loved animations and cartoons. I wanted to be a part of that world.</p> <p>When I was in year 12 I went to the <a title="RMIT" href="http://www.rmit.edu.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RMIT</a> open day and I discovered the post graduate Animation and Interactive Media course. Since it was a post grad I couldn’t apply at the time so I went on to do Visual Arts in Monash for three years majoring in painting. I applied to the RMIT course as soon as I graduated and got in.</p> <p>Shortly after, I freelance on a lot of little jobs, eventually got a 7 month contract working on creating educational animations and then right before that ended I got a gig at <a title="Viskatoons" href="http://www.viskatoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viskatoons</a> working on the tv series <a title="Faireez" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0949788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faireez</a>.</p> <h2>In a few words, describe yourself…</h2> <p>Creative, hard working, active and a tad insane.</p> <h2>What are you spending your time on at the moment?</h2> <p>I am currently working on a pilot within a team of animators for <a title="Zactoons" href="http://www.zactoons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zactoons</a>, finishing off a Flash RPG game and doing illustrations for Melbourne University. <span style="color: #d2232a;">In my personal time, I have embarked on a drawing challenge to draw everyday until December 31 2011 and all of my efforts can be seen on my <a title="Marta Tesoro blog" href="http://rabbittownanimator.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="color: #d2232a;">blog</span></a>.</span></p> <h2>Do you have a ritual for getting into the creative mindset? Or a creative process?</h2> <p>I tend to wake up with a battle plan on what needs to be done on that day. That said, when I get stuck, I tend to go to the gym, take a walk, draw something for myself, rifle through my artbooks to get back into the zone. <em><span style="color: #d2232a;">I have found that walking away from the computer is sometimes the best thing I can do to keep being creative.</span></em></p> <h2>What or who inspires you?</h2> <p>Art books inspire me often especially “The Art of …” books from animated films — most from <a title="Pixar" href="http://www.pixar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixar</a>, <a title="Disney website" href="http://home.disney.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disney</a>, <a title="Dreamworks Website" href="http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dreamworks</a> and <a title="Ghibli studio" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghibli </a>studios. Fashion Illustration tends to show up in my own work a lot of the time. I also love the work of <a title="Jhonen Vasquez wiki" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jhonen_Vasquez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jhonen Vasquez</a>.</p> <p>The people in my industry…what they do on their spare time and how they work professionally is what has always driven me to try and be better, faster and gives me an idea on how far I’ve come but how far I still need to go. They keep me both grounded and inspired.</p> <h2>What are you most proud of?</h2> <p><em><span style="color: #d2232a;">I am proud to have been part of a large number of Australian animated productions over the last few years, to have had the opportunity to work in so many different studio and to have met so many people who have become good friends.</span></em> I’m proud to have been involved in some amazing projects, many which have shown on Australian Television and some have screened overseas.</p> <h2>When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?</h2> <p><span style="color: #d2232a;">I wanted to be an artist, a painter originally, something for Disney and to be a part of animation. Most of it came true.</span></p> <div id="better-author-bio-div"> <div class="better-author-bio-div-info"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="http://www.designmontage.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JenicaAvatar_60x60.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="" class="avatar avatar-60 wp-user-avatar wp-user-avatar-60 photo avatar-default" /></p> <h4>Written by Jenica Smith</h4> <p class="better-author-bio-div-meta">Passionate about storytelling, design and creativity, Jenica is a Brisbane-based digital designer and founder of Design Montage. Follow on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/designmontage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twitter</a>.</p> <ul> <li class="first"><a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/author/jenica_designwiz/"><br /> View all posts by Jenica Smith <span class="meta-nav">→</span> </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au" title="Read Jenica Smith’s blog">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="designmontage" title="Follow Jenica Smith on Twitter" rel="external">Twitter</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <p><!-- end article section --></p> <hr /> <footer class="article-footer"> <p class="tags"> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/animator/" rel="tag">,Animator</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/australian-tv/" rel="tag">,Australian TV</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/interview/" rel="tag">,Interview</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/melbourne/" rel="tag">,Melbourne</a> <a href="http://www.designmontage.com.au/tag/tv-series/" rel="tag">,TV Series</a></p> </footer> <p> <!-- end article footer --></p> <p><!-- You can start editing here. --></p> <p><!-- If comments are closed. --><br /> <!--p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p--> <p> Visit Marta Tesoro’s website or read more creative interviews.
