Pedro Mota Teixeira
Email: pedro.teixeira@universidadeeuropeia.pt
Degree: Ph.D.
Scientific Area: Animation and Cinema
Affiliation: ID+ https://idmais.org
Category: Professor Auxiliar
ORCID: 0000-0001-5989-0333
Languages: Portuguese, English and French
Research Interests: Animation, Cinema and Game
Pedro Mota Teixeira has a PhD in Communication Sciences, Audiovisual branch and specialty in Digital Animation from the University of Minho, since 2013; Master in Multimedia Art since 2007 and degree in Communication Design, since 2001, by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In 2001, during his degree, he received a scholarship from the Socrates/Erasmus Program, having studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, tutored by Jordan Crandall (https://visarts.ucsd.edu/people/faculty /jordan-crandall.html). In 2021, he completed a postdoc dedicated to animation at the University of Aveiro.
He directed one of the first Portuguese animation films entirely conceived in 3D technology with financial support from the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA), “História de Um Caramelo” (2007).
He was co-responsible for creating the first public Masters in Illustration and Animation (MIA). He is co-founder and Organization Chair of the CONFIA International Illustration and Animation Conference, since 2011, considered by Computer Arts magazine as one of the 10 most important events in the area. He was co-founder and Co-chair of the DIGICOM International Conference on Design and Digital Communication.
He is a Researcher at the research center CAOS - Comunicação, Arte, Objecto e Sinergias of the ID+ consortium of the University of Porto, University of Aveiro and IPCA. He has been publishing and presenting academic works (national and international) in the areas of audiovisuals and, especially, animation, since 2009.
He holds the title of Specialist (according to decree-law 206/2009) in the area of Audiovisuals (animation) awarded by the consortium of Polytechnics of the North, since 2011.