Roger Betiol first showed up in the AnimWatch Forum, and joined in the fun at the AnimClips Challenges. I noticed him from his first post because his avatar was this really cool looking wild-eyed character who started out still and then blinked, and then moved his head. It's an amazingly subtle effect, one which at first I thought I was imagining, and was thrilled upon staring at it long enough, to learn that Roger had animated the thing - and one presumes for exactly such an effect.

But it was his AnimClips entry that really got me asking questions. He used the female lead (see the screenshot above) and his wild-eyed character to great effect as a long-suffering wife and her fashion-challenged husband. Upon asking, I learned these were characters in a film that Roger was animating called "Where's the Vampire".

I love the design of this thing, I love the characters, I love the way they move. It has much of the charm of stop motion animation while still being very slick and contemporary.

From what I've seen, the film looks very good, and I am looking forward to seeing what Roger does with it.

I'm Roger Betiol, I'm an animator from Brazil. I have a background in advertising and used to be an art director for some major ad agencies where I even won the acclaimed 'Lion' at the Cannes festival. But at some point in my career I felt the need pursue my love for animation, so my artistic passion for creativity took me in another direction from the one originally intended.

This is my first film and my influences are, needless to say, Tim Burton among others, but if I was to be specific, the movie that has inspired me from since I can remember is 'Mad Monster Party' from Rankin Bass. I also love the old Hammer Horror movies, which I feel have lent me a distinctive atmospheric style when bringing my current horror project to the field of animation.

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