Worldwide Famous brazilians you may have never heard of
Carlos Saldanha
Director of Animated Films
Carlos Saldanha (born July 20, 1968) is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).
Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to follow his artistic instinct and passion for animation. With a background in computer science and a natural artistic sensibility, he found New York City the perfect locale to merge these skills and become an animator. He attended the MFA program at New York’s School of Visual Arts, where he graduated with honors in 1993, after completing two animated shorts, The Adventures of Korky, the Corkscrew (1992) and Time For Love (1993).The shorts have been screened at animation festivals around the world. At SVA, Saldanha met Chris Wedge, one of the cofounders of Blue Sky Studios, who invited him to join their growing team of artists.
Movies
- Rio
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
- Ice Age: The Meltdown
- Robots (co-director)
- Gone Nutty (video short)
- Ice Age (co-director)
Alex Kipman
Director of incubation, Kinect
Microsoft’s Kinect made huge strides not only for the gaming industry this year, but also for the future of interactive media. The motion-sensor plug-in for the Xbox 360 turns the gamer into the controller; the game is directed by the body movements of the users themselves. At the center of the task sat Alex Kipman, who led Kinect to market from its formative days as Project Natal, named after Kipman’s hometown in Brazil. Kipman didn’t want to catch up with Nintendo’s Wii, he wanted to bound over it — and so they did, selling 1 million units in the first 10 days after Kinect’s release alone.
Creating a device that turns anyone into a human game controller for the Xbox began with one surprising task, says Alex Kipman: “I had to get wicked, wicked smart people to assume stupidity from day one.” The Brazilian-born director of incubation and his team needed to account for the near-infinite ways (“10 to the 23rd,” he estimates) that people look, speak, and move.
Since its release in November, Kinect — which consists of a depth sensor, microphones, and a motion camera tracking 20 points on the body in three-dimensional space–has inspired not only sales (some 10 million units) but also excitement among tinkerers who will soon have a Kinect software-development kit to advance their pet projects in, say, robotics or 3-D mapping. “This is a new era,” says Kipman, “and it’s going to require a ton of pioneering, a ton of innovation, and a ton of incubation. That’s not going to happen all within Microsoft.”
Eduardo Saverin
Co-founder of Facebook
He is a Brazilian American entrepreneur and business manager. He is best known for co-founding Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He is reported to have a 5% stake in the company, worth about US$2.5 billion as of January, 2011.
During his junior year at Harvard University, Saverin met fellow Harvard classmate sophomore Mark Zuckerberg. Noting the lack of a dedicated social networking website for Harvard students, the two worked together to launch The Facebook. As co-founder, Saverin held the role of CFO and business manager. As Facebook rapidly expanded to universities across the US, internal conflicts and differences of opinion between Saverin and Zuckerberg arose. The following summer, as Saverin was staying in New York (where he worked briefly as an intern at Lehman Brothers), The Facebook relocated operations to California, having already attracted interest as a fast-growing Silicon Valley start-up.
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Well I wasn’t aware that the director of the said great films was a Brazilian. We can boast about his works globally. Quite competent!
Good of you for publishing these unheard but famous people of Brazil. Well what can i say, Brazil itself is famous for its diversity. From my point of view almost all there in your place are gorgeously talented.