3D animation & video for brands & agenciesSão Paulo · Worldwide

Direction + Technique. Delivered.

Plate Studio is a 3D animation and video production studio in São Paulo. We make commercials, product films and campaign content for brands and agencies, from the first idea to final delivery.

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CapabilitiesServices
01

3D Animation

Films for launches and campaigns.

02

Product Visualization

Photoreal products and packshots.

03

Lighting & Lookdev

Our core craft, in-house.

04

CG Integration

CG inside live action.

05

Creative Direction

From script to visual language.

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Work7 projects

Work that moves.

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Nubank02 / 07

My Year in Sport

Brand
Nubank
Discipline
3D motion
Format
Pitch film
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About

A pitch film for Nubank that turns a year of activity into a set of objects. Brass spheres roll across black marble and blush stone, and each number of the year gets its own small mechanism.

Concept

Year-in-review videos usually live on flat screens full of charts. The idea was to make the data physical: the most active month is a row of tiles that light up, the heart rate is a pendulum, the most liked post is a pile of spheres. Marble, brass and soft pink keep it premium and calm.

My Year in Sport
Craft

Everything moves with the weight of real objects: spheres that roll, drop and settle, rails and tubes that carry them from one number to the next. The camera stays close and slow, so the materials do the talking.

My Year in Sport — still 1
My Year in Sport — still 2
My Year in Sport — still 3
Our role

Concept, direction, 3D animation and finishing by Plate Studio.

Brand
Nubank
Production
Plate Studio
ServicesFull pipeline or single stage

What we make.

01

3D Animation

Hero films for launches and campaigns, from product reveals to character spots.

PrevisAnimationFXRender
02

Product Visualization

Photoreal products and packshots that match or beat the real object.

StillsTurntablesE‑commerceCMF
03

Lighting & Lookdev

We light CG like cinematographers and build materials that hold at 4K.

Solaris / USDKarmaMaterialXACES
04

CG Integration & VFX

CG that lives inside live action: tracking, light match, compositing.

TrackingHDRINuke
05

Creative Direction

We join at the idea stage and carry the visual language to delivery.

StyleframesStoryboardSupervision
06

Motion Design Brand Guidelines

How a brand moves: motion principles, signature animations for logo and mascot, and the files your team and agencies apply across product, social and video.

Motion principlesLogo & mascotEasing & timingHandoff files
How to work with us
Recommended

Full production

Concept to master. One owner, one pipeline, one invoice.

 

By stage

Lighting, lookdev or FX inside your pipeline and your deadlines.

 

Creative direction

Look development and supervision for your team or vendor.

ProcessFive stages, one owner
01

Brief

Idea, audience and media plan first.

02

Look

Styleframes lock the aesthetic in week one.

03

Previs

Timing and camera approved before heavy render.

04

Production

Animation, lighting and FX in one pipeline.

05

Delivery

Masters and cutdowns, color-managed.

StudioTwo partners · One studio

Small on purpose. Senior by default.

Plate Studio is a creative duo formed by Eliel Guimarães and Vinícius Ale. Together we bring over 15 years of animation, 3D and VFX work for agencies, production companies and brands, as freelancers and in-house artists. Now we've joined forces to sign our own projects.

Team

Eliel Guimarães

Eliel Guimarães

PartnerDirection · 3D animation

15+ years in lighting, look development and VFX for commercials, series and animation. Work for Samsung, Paramount, Amazon, Nestlé, Itaú, Hasbro and HBO Adult Swim.

elielguimaraes.com ↗
Vinícius Ale

Vinícius Ale

PartnerMotion · 3D · Art direction

Multidisciplinary artist, 12+ years in advertising, digital content and entertainment for brands, agencies and studios across Latin America and Europe. Motion design, 3D animation, editing and art direction, from concept to delivery.

When a project asks for more hands, senior specialists join from our network, so the team always fits the brief. Remote pipeline, international standards, work in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

HoudiniSolaris / USDMayaCinema 4DKarmaRedshiftArnoldNukeAfter Effects
15:20São Paulo
15:20Buenos Aires
15:20You
On AIOur position

A new tool. The same direction.

We use AI the way we use every tool in our pipeline: as an ally to the creative and technical process. Our job has always been to keep up with whatever arrives in the creative and business field, and AI is one more of them.

We are not against it. Like every program, plugin or software that arrived with big promises, it opens new ideas, new points of view and new ways of working, and we stay just as human.

This wave is bigger, mostly because of speed. Nothing that human direction can't handle.

Principles

01

Tool, not author

Every frame still passes through a director's eye.

02

Always updating

We test new tools as they arrive and keep what serves the image.

03

Human direction

Speed comes from the tool. Judgment comes from us.

JournalTalks · Notes · Breakdowns · Lab

Notes from behind the frame.

What we learn on real productions, shared with the community: how we light, how we build pipelines, how new tools change the work.

Eliel Guimarães
Voice · Lighting & lookdev

Eliel Guimarães

Fifteen years lighting commercials, series and animation. Writes and speaks about light as storytelling, USD pipelines and how studios adopt new tools without losing direction.

Light as storytellingUSD · SolarisAI in productionFreelance to studio
Invite to speak → elielguimaraes.com ↗

Community

01

Talks & panels

Schools, festivals and agencies. Lighting, lookdev and production for brands.

02

Open breakdowns

Selected projects, taken apart shot by shot, when the client allows.

03

Mentoring

Time set aside for artists moving from freelance to senior or studio roles.

LabAuthorial work & R&D

What we make when nobody asks.

Short films, tools and look studies. This is where new techniques get tested before they reach a client project.

Contact20 minutes · Video call

Tell us the idea. We'll show the path.

A short call with the team. You leave with a production approach, a realistic timeline and next steps.

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Prefer email

atendimento@platestudio.com.br
New business

atendimento@platestudio.com.br

Studio

São Paulo, BR · GMT-3

Working hours

Mon–Fri · overlap with US & EU

1 · Pick a day
2 · Pick a time
Your time zone: America/Sao Paulo
3 · About the project
Call requested

You'll get a calendar invite and a short brief template by email. Prototype: nothing was sent.