Hi Everyone, how you?re all doing? My name is Thiago Carneiro, and I?m a Brazilian Web Designer. Since the end of the last year I?ve been studying 3D modeling. After 7 years doing front-end and back-end development, I decided to follow my dreams and dive in the CG industry.
I?ve been a visitor in CGsociety forum and gallery for a long time, always visiting and never posting, because since I?m a student I never had many to share with the resto f the community, until now.
What I have to share is not a good thing, actually I think It?s a big problem.. I?ve been searching the web for tutorials and courses related to 3D Modeling and character concept for almost 6 months. I?ve also taken some courses and workshops during this time.
But 2 weeks ago I?ve came across a website with the most variable kinds of courses, from 3D Modeling to rendering (Heres the site), but what bugged me the most was the info about the artist responsible for this online courses, his name is Emerson ëCello.
I?m saying this because on his Resume he claims to have worked with Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, NASA and Disney. But here?s where it gets real fishy, he claims to be the concept and visual development artist responsible for characters inside Wreck-it-Ralph, Tangled, Brave and other Mickey shorts, oh and also on Rango, which is a Nickelodeon movie. And this really made me excited but a little worried, because I never heard about this guy in my life, and his name is not in the credits of any of the projects he claims to take part.
I thought that maybe he was a freelancer and big studios don?t give credits to freelancers, don?t know. So I keep searching more info.
I figured out that before paying more than R$2800 (something around $1200 - $1500) I should at least find someone else who paid this and have done the workshop.
What I?ve found was a group of students that had a class with him on a University in Brasilia, that said he was constantly skipping classes and often away on ?Business travels?, supposedly because he was working with Disney on a animation movie. One of the students also told me that many of the pieces on his portfolio (wich I haven?t seen until then, I know, that should have been the first thing to search for) were from other artists! And even from sites with stock models, like turbosquid i guess.
That was a bomb for my expectations, after that I?ve searched for his portfolio and his demo reel, I also came across a vídeo of him explaining the process behind a character that HE DESIGNED for Monsters University .
And this is when everything goes extremely bad. I?ve started to found many other that were as curious as me on who this ?artist? is and why no one has never heard about him. Which is very strange since Brazilians are proud about their artists and a guy who worked in so many amazing projects, would be definitely famous by now.
I?ve came across 2 groups inside facebook with threads from over 900 posts, with people angry and trying to get the artist to explain himself.
I also came across a Thread on ZBRUSH CENTRAL, which somehow, vanished yesterday, with even JMLinares saying something like:
\"His mesh is exactly the same as mine. I wish you all the best, because you will need it.
Unfortunately people like this exist everywhere. Thanks for showing me this thread.\"
By this time, I?m more than sure that this guy could be a fake. But I?m also extremely angry because he hold classes with over than 20 students, EACH ONE of then paying almost $1500. Wich gave him $30.000 and more than R$60.000. Dude, that?s just wrong...
And every time I see people trying to open the eyes of other students for not believing in this guy, Emerson and his friends accuse them of being jealously of his effort and results.
Well, I?m trying to do what I think It\'s right. But I also don?t know what I should do. Should I contact the artists? Should I open a thread, like I?m doing here, hoping people searching his name would come across this? Should I do nothing?! I don?t know. I hope some of you could guide me on what to do next.
And I?m sorry if this Thread is on the wrong forum, would love if the moderator move it and not delete it.
And just to finish my thoughts, what REALLY pissed me off, was the image below, where he claims to be the artist behind one of the characters from the movie Brave. Which I have the artbook and his name is nowhere to be found.. Actually its another artist. Thankfully someone else saw this before me and made the image below.
Agora - \"Conheça Emerson ËCello ? Professor-Parceiro da BMS\"
http://www.brasiliamarketingschool.com.br/noticias/conheca-emerson-ecello-professor-parceiro-da-bms/
Alguem se pronuncia?
Gente o que leva uma pessoa a ter tanta necessidade de aprovação alheia e chamar atenção para si mesmo?
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