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

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Laura

Laura is about a little girl looking for her dad who was taken to a concentration camp on Terceira Island in the Azores, during WWI in Portugal.

It’s a game to discover the landscape and beauty of the Azores, while interacting with the environment: help Laura find her dad, play with animals and search for plants to had to the herbarium.

Website: polyweld.itch.io/laura

Awards: Laura won the PlayStation Talents’ Best Children’s Game Award in 2021.

Process: Concept Art and Game Design

Concept made using Photoshop.
3D modeling made using Maya.

The game was made in Lisbon during quarantine, and unfortunatly the team couldn’t go to Terceira, in Azores, to do on-site reasearch. So we leaned on photos, videos, and books to capture that unique Azorean atmosfere: foggy air, soft green hills, and dark volcanic rock everywhere, in the land, in the walls, in the streets. A place full of contrasts.

When we finally were able to travel, we showed the game at the Museu de Angra do Heroísmo, in Terceira, and we were very happy to hear the locals say we’d gotten the feeling of the islands just right.

Awards, Articles and Interviews

Laura won the PlayStation Talents’ Best Children’s Game Award in 2021.

Interview with CIAAC - Centro de Informática da Associação Académica de Coimbra, in 2023, about the games Laura and CARETO.

Artigos:
→ [Pplware]
→ [4gnews]