Thais Quintella de Linhares was born in Rio de Janeiro.

She moved with her family

to U.S.A. while she was still a baby, and there she lived until she was five years old.
As she listened to the classics of literature to which her grandmother introduced her,
Thais learned to love the books, together with the beautiful illustrations. Returning home, her
family took up residence in the neighborhood of the Jardim Botnico (Botanical Gardens of
Rio de Janeiro), where streets and cars still share space with birds and monkeys.
First she entered to the School of Astronomy at the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro (Astronomy/UFRJ), but in 91, during the first Comics Strips International Biennial
of Rio de Janeiro, she managed to contact many cartoonists and illustrators, especially two of
her greatest idols: Will Eisner and Moebius. She also worked at that time as a comic writer
with Ziraldo one of the greatest Brazilian author of children's. For Ziraldos studio she
wrote many scripts for childrens magazines such as Stio do Picapau Amarelo and
Menino Maluquinho.
So enchanted, she decided to follow the artistic career and entered (1990) as
apprentice in a publicity agency, and soon after that she was chosen to enter a Special Course
of Graphic Design (SENAI-AG). There she was trained in art, communication, computer
graphics, history of graphic design and graphic production after a two years full time
course, she graduated as graphic designer and went to work at a creative department of a
publicity agency. During this time she produced and published her own comic album, the
Grimoire, released at the II Comics Strips International Biennial of Rio de Janeiro,
obtaining a good divulgation in the press. Further two of her comics were awarded 7th and
10th places in the Biennial competitions. She also graduated in the National Academy of
Fines Arts (EBA/ UFRJ;
Professional experience:
Thais Linhares is a well know illustrator for children's books, also a writer and a
passionate student of medieval art and its relations with the popular art of Brazilian
story-tellers. She's been publishing her art since 1998. Having accomplished some important
prizes gave by the FNLIJ (Brazilian section of IBBY).
Thais is a usual guest at the FNLIJ Saloon of Books for Children and Young People,
the biggest of the kind in Brazil, where she usually makes performances of illustrations and

talk to children about that kind of art.

Recently working in the animation field, Thais was the background artist for the
short-movie O Saci from the series Juro que vi, produced by Multirio. That short won the
Grand Prix of Japan in 2008, was directed by Humberto Avelar, and produced by Patricia
Alves Dias.
She also wrote scripts for the TV series O Quarto do Jobi, for 2D Lab, and took
classes with Jos Carvalho and Robert McKee in scrip writing and script doctoring, and
Attended the animation workshop of Andr Leduc (form the Canadian National Film Board);
For Intervalo Productions, Thais created the animation bible for E.V.A. a new tv
series to be broadcasted on Brazilian public television. That bible won the selection of the
Rio de Janeiro city funds for production.
Her project for a full length animation movie "O Monge e a Fada" received a special
scholarship from Rio de Janeiro state cultural department for script development.

International exhibitions:
2013 _ IMOW Muslima: an online exhibition featuring the art, voices, and stories of
Muslim women around the globe;
2013 BIG: Book Illustration Gallery do Asian Festival of Children's Content in
Singapore;
2013 Catalogo Iberoamericano de Illustradores SM;
2007 Collors and Shapes that tell Stories - at Munchen - Germany;
2005 The Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB), one of the oldest international
honours for children's book illustrators;
Many of her illustrated books were presented by the FNLIJ (Brazilian Section of
IBBY) at the Bolognas Children's Books Fair, since 2001.
2005 At the FLIPinha, the part of FLIP dedicated to children's books, in an
exhibition organized by the Brazilian Association of Writers and Illustrators of Children

Books (AEI-LIJ), located in Paraty/RJ, Brazil.

Please, be welcome to see some of my works online.
Some of my recent work as an illustrator:
http://thaislinhares.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/some-of-my-recent-work-as-illustrator.html

Some concept art, ideas, projects:

http://thaislinhares.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/some-roughs-concepts-and-ideas.html
http://storebodes.blogspot.com.br/2013/05/pan-de-minhas-artes.html
http://thaislinhares.blogspot.com/
http://ilustracoesdethais.blogspot.com/
The short movie O Saci produced by Multirio, where Thais made the backgrounds and
props, winner of the Grand Prix of Japan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMyDvYsC9DE
See Thais work in "O Saci" backgrounds:
http://storebodes.blogspot.com.br/2012/11/alguns-dos-cenarios-que-trabalhei-em-o.html
Some samples of different styles of her art:
http://thaislinhares.carbonmade.com/projects/4789323#1

O Quarto do Jobi (Jobis Room) tv series for public Brazilian television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VApaTzkUQAw

A little motion art:

http://storebodes.blogspot.com.br/search?updated-max=2009-11-16T06:56:00-08:00&ma
x-results=7&start=14&by-date=false

http://thaislinhares.carbonmade.com/projects/4789323#1

My books as a writer:
http://thaislinhares.blogspot.com.br/2013/10/livros-de-thais-linhares-escritora.html

My work at BIG Asia:

http://thaislinhares.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=mL8X5UIBAAA.0E4uakrjh2B5
qIHkJ8duTQ.FLEiBphREHLAqeITKb2FPw&postId=4358695146521613381&type=POST

To meet Thais, herself, nothing better than wach her u-tube presentation
about illustrators work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6T2lysmxl0

Or Thais being interwied by Ziraldo at TV program ABZ do Ziraldo,

for the public television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM9RgEhvcjY

Also, as a writer she won some special prizes and selections for her following books:

Vov Drago (ed. Nova Fronteira) - PNBE 2007 the Brazilian govern program for
Reading development;

O Monge e o Macaco (ed. Ygarap) the Brazilian govern program for public
libraries 2007;
Breno! Breno! (ed. Larousse Brasil) 2009 selected by the public schools in Belo
Horizonte city;
Rapunzel (publisher: Mundo Mirim ) PNBE 2013 the Brazilian govern program
for Reading development;

Beside her experience with books and animation, Thais has seek to improve a huge
knowledge in other areas such as: science (National School of Astronomy, and astrophysics
lato-sensu courses); theater (Tablado - Rio de Janeiro), music (as an opera singer at the
National School of Music in the federal university), scientific illustration (at the Botanical
Gardens research institute), medieval history sagas and art (Cambridge-UK summer

school), medieval books and illustration (So Bento Monastery at Rio de Janeiro) ,
copyrights and laws of intellectual propriety (Casa de Rui Barbosa, and others), graphic
design, production (both books and animation) and comic books.

Phone number: 55 21 2259 3699

Mobile: 55 21 9 9937 6373
Email: thaislinhares@gmail.com or thaislinhares@yahoo.com.br