KaruKaru studio
ANIMATION ~ SOUND ~ ILLUSTRATION
We are a couple of audio-visual storytellers who brew metaphors to concoct smiles, tears and other things in between.
Karu Karu - meaning
In Quechua, one of the Native South American language families, it means "very far away".
Ethos & Interests
Nurturing our audience's capacity for wonder
Exploration of metaphorical relations between image-sound-text
Search for strong philosophical cores
Critical questioning driven by curiosity
Work on projects driven by ethical principles (basically doing the right thing towards all living beings)
We offer
AUDIO-VISUAL STORYTELLING
2D Animation
Sound Design & Music
Concept Art, Characters & Backgrounds
Illustration, Picture Books & Comics
Storyboarding
Artist's Books
Training & Corporate animations
Projects in English / Spanish
Ana María Méndez Salgado
writer / illustrator / concept artist / animator
Ana is a visual storyteller and artist.
She has created award-winning productions and showcased in Latin-America, Europe and Australia. Ana studied Visual Arts, Illustration and Animation as well as courses in Children's Literature, Cinema and Sequential Narrative. She has worked as a mentor and lecturer at the University of South Australia.
She's passionate about the links between culture, expression and personal identity. She loves riding her pushbike, being surrounded by nature, listening to children's conversations, study old objects with hidden stories, and contemplate the world when everyone else seems to be busy.
ana@karu-karu.com
Carlos A. Manrique Clavijo
sound designer / composer / compositor / animator
Carlos is a sound designer and filmmaker.
Carlos has worked in several award-winning productions including fiction, documentary and predominantly, animation. He has studied Sound Engineering, Philosophy, Film Production and Animation, and has worked as a tertiary education lecturer in film sound design, music and video editing in Colombia and Australia.
He's very fond of cats, toys that make weird sounds and geeky stuff like computer programming. He's passionate about questions and perception, and he's also very curious about the humanities, arts and social sciences.
carlos@karu-karu.com