Robertino Zambrano

Director / Designer / Animator / Writer

He’s made magic with the likes of Billie Eilish
and Telstra. And yes, that is an Academy Award
Shortlisted under his belt. Oh, and an Annecy
Cristal on his shelf.

Robertino Zambrano

Director / Designer / Animator / Writer

He’s made magic with the likes of Billie Eilish and Telstra. And yes, that is an Academy Award Shortlisted under his belt. Oh, and an Annecy Cristal on his shelf.

Mighty work by Robertino …

“We created a series of visceral, fluid and figurative animated films for the California Tobacco Control Program. Three authentic, first hand accounts. Three distinct design languages. An artful portrayal of the imperfect path towards quitting smoking, for good.”
-Robertino

Robertino is a creative polymath: Director, designer, animator, illustrator, producer and writer. The emotional versatility shown in his work moves from the fluid and poetic, to the scratchy and characterful.

He finds joy in conceiving crackpot creative schemes, meddling with new tech, and delving into his roots for inspiration. Robertino walks the line between human and high tech, comfortable and challenging – and it makes for something beautiful.

TOP ACHIEVEMENTS:
Shortlisted for an Academy Award for my film Love in the Time of March Madness
Creating a career where I get to make art, and use my imagination every single day.
Making films about being tall, struggling with addiction and spiritual transformation.

SECRET SKILLS:
Can shoot 5 x 3 pointers in a row blindfolded and cooks a mean banana curry. Don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it.

… and some Nice things.

ACCENTS - TED-ED

“Accents”, a spoken word piece written and peformed by the talented Denice Frohman, is an ode to her mother’s Puerto Rican accent. I was invited by TED-Ed to turn Denice’s singular poetry performance into animation. We took on the energy, soul and rhythm of Denice’s performance, and translated it into moving image, transposing her rhythmic vocal motifs and allowing her lyrics to propel and lead the imagery using vibrant and raw frame-by-frame animation work.

Red Room Poetry

I was invited by the educational non-profit, Red Room Poetry, to create an animation for the 2018 edition of the Poetry Object competition. Poetry Object invited young writers from around Australia to submit poems about objects curious and special to them. We created an animation inspired by the words of the three winning poems, using a combination of traditional 2D animation, hand-generated linework and textures, and CG.

STAGE FRIGHT

ESPN NBA

I was commissioned by the ESPN NBA team to create animations which helped break down Kyrie Irving’s ridiculously good handles.

ACCENTS – TED-ED

“Accents”, a spoken word piece written and peformed by the talented Denice Frohman, is an ode to her mother’s Puerto Rican accent. I was invited by TED-Ed to turn Denice’s singular poetry performance into animation. We took on the energy, soul and rhythm of Denice’s performance, and translated it into moving image, transposing her rhythmic vocal motifs and allowing her lyrics to propel and lead the imagery using vibrant and raw frame-by-frame animation work.

RED ROOM POETRY

I was invited by the educational non-profit, Red Room Poetry, to create an animation for the 2018 edition of the Poetry Object competition. Poetry Object invited young writers from around Australia to submit poems about objects curious and special to them. We created an animation inspired by the words of the three winning poems, using a combination of traditional 2D animation, hand-generated linework and textures, and CG.

STAGE FRIGHT

ESPN NBA

I was commissioned by the ESPN NBA team to create animations which helped break down Kyrie Irving’s ridiculously good handles.