Raflalo is Raf Aflalo
In Nashville, TN, after an 11 year stint in London, freelancing for a steady run of agencies and brands, making pictures move. That included a spell in-house at Mummu Studio as Animation Director. I still lecture on animation at the University of the Arts London when the schedule allows.
Raised in the vibrant chaos of São Paulo, Brazil (with a brief detour through Barcelona), I found my way into animation through the graphic design door. The path there was anything but straight, taking in branding work, directing music videos for the local indie scene, co-founding two tech startups, opening titles for tv pilots, designing a four-storey exhibition for football's greatest, Pelé, and, for a stretch, running an online skateboard shop. Music has stayed close to the centre of it all ever since, that instinct for pairing sound with image following me into every studio and freelance chapter.
I'm curious by nature, the kind of person who likes throwing two unexpected things together just to see what happens. Lately that's meant mixing paper cut-out stop motion animation with generative AI video within the same project. Career highlights include leading a character led case study series for Samsung Knox, and building a layered system for Square that let one campaign flex across a dozen markets without starting from scratch each time.
Right now I'm freelancing out of Nashville, having recently worked with clients including BlinkInk and Google DeepMind.
Want to know more about what inspires me? Check out this chat I had with LBB Online.
Or drop me a line at rafael@raflalo.com