Matilde Albuquerque
Matilde is an Animator, Motion Designer and Game Designer, based in Lisbon.
With a background in Communication Design and Illustration, she always had a passion for color, characters, and history. Her work delves into culture, comedy, and nature. In her free time, she enjoys drawing, writing and
immersing herself in all things music nerds do.
In 2020 she won the PlayStation® Talents’ Best Art Award for her game CARETO and the next year, in 2021, she won the PlayStation® Talents’ Best Children’s Game Award for her game Laura. Recently, she has worked with high profile clients, such as Netflix and Ernst & Young.
Her first videogame CARETO was launched in 2023 and is displayed in the museum Casa do Careto, in Podence.
Alongside her creative work, Matilde teaches Animation, Drawing, Character Design, and Special Effects at EPI – Escola Profissional de Imagem, where she also leads the Animation department as its Pedagogical Coordinator.
matildalbuquerque@gmail.com Projects
Careto
Videogame
February 2023
Museu Casa do Careto, Podence
mastudios.itch.io/careto
A game based on a Portuguese northern folklore. CARETO is a single-player puzzle-platformer about a centuries-old Portuguese
Carnival. Caretos are creatures of a mysterious Carnival from a village
in the north of Portugal. It celebrates the end of winter and the
beginning of spring. The game won Best Art Award for PlayStation® Talents Portugal 2020.
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Laura
Videogame
June 2021
polyweld.itch.io/laura
A game about a little girl looking for her dad who
was taken to a concentration camp on Terceira Island in the Azores,
during WWI. Laura is a single-player top-down, stealth
single-player 3D about WWI in the Azores. It’s a game also to discover
the landscape and beauty of the Azores, while interacting with the
environment: play with animals and search for plants. The game won Best Children’s Game Award for PlayStation® Talents Portugal 2021.
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Aprender a Ver, Jasmim
Videoclip
March 2025
Directed by Rodrigo Braz Teixeira
Filmed in Kyoto, Japan. Animation frame by frame over video.
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EY x Nos Alive
Motion Graphics
2019 - 2025
Ernest & Young
I’ve been working as a motion designer with Wello for Ernst & Young since 2019, creating motion graphics for podcast intros, infographics, Christmas cards, and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year gala. But the highlight every year is crafting the motion piece for Nos Alive.
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