Buenos Aires motion house Buda round up two dozen friends from across South America for a joyous tribute to the local tradition of drinking and sharing a bitter tea made from the yerba mate plant.

Directors/founders Buigues Dalmiro and Martin Dasnoy at Buda: “We wanted to do something collaborative for a long time. On today’s social media we share everything so we loved that idea for the film. And we realized mate is something that unites people throughout Latin America – sharing their love and feelings.

“Then we began to look for artists and friends that we admire so that we are in this round, choosing among all the countries where mate is habitual.

“We also wanted to communicate that in a round of mate you can have all kinds of people and all on the same level, so we wanted to have different technics and a variety of styles like 3d, 2d, film, pixel art.

“It took four months to build this piece from the idea to post – a little longer than we thought, because being a non-commercial project, everyone was managing the times in parallel to their work.

“Thanks to all the artists, colleagues and friends, who participated in this project with their own mates from Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina.”
 

Artists:
Buda
Gastón Pacheco
Fabricio Lima
Jorge R. Canedo Estrada
Gabriel Fermanelli
Morphine
Six N. Five
Matias Furno
Carlos Araya
Atlantico
Handsome Bandit
Dwarf Maldito
Esteban Pedrozo
Laura Giménez
Angel Rapu
Steven Fergusson
Pablo Mardones
Giulia Marchetti
Julian Fumagalli
Felipe Vargas
Pablo Cuello
Juan Molinet
Leandro Vargas

Sound design: Redhorse Studio

Intro production:
Direction and relization: Buda
Art direction: Dalmiro Buigues
Direction of animation: Martín Dasnoy
Production: Cecilia Martín

Modeling, textures, uvws: Dalmiro Buigues, Martin Dasnoy Character
design, materials, lighting, render, composition: Dalmiro Buigues
Storyboards, Animation, rig, sound: Martin Dasnoy
Yerba particles: Matías Furno
Label design: Cecilia Martín, Santiago Ramet

Voiceover: Maria de los Angeles Aballay Lecco “La Pacha”
Voice recording: Randy Vergara
Voice edition: Mauro Aramburu
Effect sounds: Matías Bazzetti

Intro music:
Chancha Via Circuito “Dream in Paraguay – El Buho Remix”

Special thanks: Cecilia Vila, Emi Cochella