We recently connected with Jordana Pedroso and have shared our conversation below.
Jordana, thank you so much for taking the time to share your lessons learned with us and we’re sure your wisdom will help many. So, one question that comes up often and that we’re hoping you can shed some light on is keeping creativity alive over long stretches – how do you keep your creativity alive?
I believe that creativity emerges when we consume content that inspires us. For me, art, music and cinema in general awaken my desire to create and fit my work into the world, with delicacy and enthusiasm.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
Since I was a child, I have always had an aptitude for arts in general, I really enjoyed painting, sewing, drawing, making paper collages, among other activities that encouraged creativity. When I entered the Faculty of Visual Arts – drawing and plastic – in 2018, I still didn’t work with dolls or stop motion. During my studies I came into contact with a very wide range of materials, and with many artistic and cinematographic influences, I began to get closer to the world of stop motion.
So when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and I spent a lot of time at home, I tried to revive my old passions for sewing and modeling and combine them with my technical learning. I was inspired by stop motions like Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs to make my first doll prototypes, and so I evolved more and more in the production process.
I currently work with my artistic production of dolls and also as a costume designer and hair/fur design for stop motion productions.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
I would say creativity, the search for technical knowledge and artistic vision. At the beginning, it wasn’t easy to see solutions for the pieces, nor even to know where I needed to improve. Over time, studies make us visualize a trajectory of evolution, and in art the best way to evolve is to practice! Practice and don’t be afraid of making mistakes.
Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?
The book that helped me understand how stop motion productions were made, focusing mainly on puppets, was the book The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox. To this day I use this book as a “bible” because it was a guide for me to start my work with costumes and fur. I think the most incredible thing about this book for me was that I used behind-the-scenes production images as a visual reference for my production, so I did several studies of the characters, accessories and how the pieces were made.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanacpedroso/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordana-pedroso-bb8843203/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanacpedroso
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@jordanapedroso8702
Image Credits
Jordana Pedroso
