Lorena Ares
Directing
Biography
Lorena Ares is a Spanish animation director. She graduated in Fine Arts and began her career in animation in 2001 as part of the animation team of Dygrafilms. In 2011, she began working together with Carlos Fdez de Vigo at Moonbite Studios. In 2018, after moving to Pamplona, Fdez de Vigo and Ares set up their own brand, Dr. Platypus & Ms. Wombat.
Known For
The Spirit of the Forest is a fun-filled, action-packed adventure that takes you into a spectacular world beyond your imagination! The evil Mrs. D’Abondo wants to help a powerful businessman build a highway through the middle of the forest, a diabolical plan that forces the forest creatures to flee. To stop Mrs. D’Abondo and save their homes, Furi leads his friends in a daring mission to keep the forest alive.
Spirit Of The Forest
Alma, a lonely girl, relives her traumatic past when her doll falls into the pool, dragging her to the shipwreck of the boat of which she was the only survivor. Luna, her rescuer, helps her overcome her trauma and rebuild her life.
Cafunè
Monsterville is a village inhabited by monsters that have grown tired of living among humans. But one day, Hanna manages to break into her world by putting Monsterville at risk. After the initial fright, the monsters will have to fight against worse enemies: Gargoyle and Cyclops, two monsters that will want to use Hanna to permanently close any contact with the outside world ... running the risk of Hanna being trapped forever in Monsterville.
Hanna and the Monsters
The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse meet to review the state of humanity and discuss strategies for the future. A weak and dying Death receives his companions with the intention of convincing them to torment humans less, but Famine, Pestilence and War dream of a humanity trapped in a world without escape.
It Dawns the Longest Night
A Goya award nominated short animation.
The Jester and the Princess
Codi, Vera and their group of friends enjoy together DinoGames, the most successful metaverse around the world, as a team. One day they are transported into the metaverse in flesh and bones. It’ll be an amazing adventure. They will know their DinoPets and will tour the impossible landscapes of DinoGames. But they will have to overcome real dangers in DinoGames: DarkFluid is transforming DinoPets into terrible DarkSaurs with the evil Pink Olaf leading them to conquer our world and turn it into their video game. A terrible virus is destroying DinoGames so the group of friends has to run to find a way to come back home.
DinoGames. Adventures in the Metaverse
Tanzania, 1895. Muna is born Masai. She is different. Her skin is white like the moon, her hair as pale as ivory. Muna is albino. Villagers regard her as bewitched and decide to banish her. Muna grows up alone; her only mates are her mother and elephant, Aysha. One day, Muna hears about the existence of white men and sets out to find them, thinking they are her true tribe. But, they are only European hunters who trick her to track elephants. When the girl discovers this, she fights to help her village and vindicate its nature.