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Glitter Model is a Brazilian animated series created by Angelo Nunes and coproduced by NBCUniversal Television Distribution and Monster Movie n' Mgmt.

Glitter Model is about a 13-year-old Girl named Clara who is discovered by a modeling scout of a big modeling agency and will have great adventures, with her two best friends: Giovanna and Valentina.While on persuing her path on the modeling carreer, Clara will learn important lessons such as: Responsability, Loyalty, Friendship, Healthy food and lifestyle, Studies, and so many other important issues for teenage girls. The pilot episode aired on November 13, 2016, as part of a sneak peek of Disney Channel's Saturday morning lineup.

The Premise
The series centers around a thirteen-year-old girl and is the first animated series to use the glamourous fashion universe as a background to tell the adventures of Clara, the protagonist, and her best friends Valentina and Giovanna. The Glitter Model stories of are structured in a way that stimulates children to recognize their own inner shine. Clara, the main character, is discovered by Jonathan, a Model Scout and the girl who was bullied at school with nicknames like “Tall Clumsy Giraffe”, will discover her potential and become a beautiful model, part of the biggest model agency in town: Glitter Model.

While Clara develops her career as a model, she will have big adventures with Valentina and Giovanna, and all of them, aloong with Camille, will learn many important lessons having to do with: family ties, moral and ethical values, career orientation, feminine leadership, friendship, loyalty, teamwork, frustration, regret, anxiety, guilt, and many other themes. Through the fascinating world of fashion and using Clara's new knowledge, Glitter Model will present the audience with a healthy lifestyle and will talk about the responsibilities implied in a modeling career, showing the audience that, as in any other professional career, discipline, professionalism, commitment and the ability to deal in a positive way with the negative responses that a model can receive daily, are necessary.

Development
"Glitter Model" was created by Angelo Nunes and was coproduced by Monster Movie and NBCUniversal Television Distribution. Angelo Nunes was, during the last two decades, a model agent and has worked for major Model Agencies on their brazilian offices such as Next Model management, Marylin Model management and Way model management. During his career, Angelo has managed the carreer of international Top Models like Alessandra Ambrósio, Ana Claudia Michels, Carol Trentini, Michelle Alves, Shirley Mallmann, Caroline Ribeiro and Fernanda Tavares, among many others.

"Glitter Model" is based on Angelo's decades of experience dealing with Model (person) and Supermodel. During his years as a model agent, Angelo saw young girls arriving at the agency, leaving their hometowns, families, friends behind, only to pursue their dreams of becoming famous top models, in order to be able to improve their families and their own lives lifestyles. These girls, usually arrives only with the dreams and their hope to achieve their goals of becoming top models. Mostly with no knowledge about this career, with no professional experience and still on high school, these girls has to grown fast. Under the care and guidance of the agency, they start to have classes of runaway, english, make up, style, behavior and when they are finally ready, their agents will present them to magazines and brands, looking for fashion and commercial jobs, that in general are editorials, fashion shows and covers ( fashion) and a sort of products ads.

Only a few of these girls will be successful pursuing their dreams and will become Top Models and this was the starting point o "Glitter Model", because, for the girls that failed being Models there are infinite other options of career ! These girls just need to be guided into discovering their own internal shine and how to let this shine becomes their greatest strength. Angelo said "It doesn't matter if you are not tall enough or thin enough to be a model ! You still can be a doctor, a teacher, a lawyer, a publicist, a public relations, a police officer, a judge, a soccer player...you just need to discover your own internal glow and choose to let it shine !

Theme song
The theme song for the series was written by Renato Lemos and sung by Gabriela Milani. The main title were created by Rlmix, the same studio responsible for the soundtrack of films such as Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil, Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, City of God (2002 film) and Osmar: The Heel of the Loaf. The animated sequence during the main title was designed to let the audience know that the show is going to be fun, colorful, full of fashion and sparks, but also has the implícit message tha every girl has their own shine ! The main title name is "Glitter Model".

Casting & Original Voices
Sandra Mara Azevedo is an actress and voice director and was in charge of Glitter Model casting. She also played "Márcia", Clara's mother. Sandra is more known for being, for several years, the voice of Chiquinha, the brazilian name of a character from the mexican worldwide famous tv series El Chavo del Ocho. She is also know for the brazilian voices of Cersei in Game of Thrones,Peppermint Patty in Snoopy and so many others. Sandra casts a very selected and experienced team of voice actors : Luiza Porto voices the main character Clara and she is also known for the brazilian voices of several major characters on international productions. Isabella Guarnieri voices Clara's best friend Giovanna and is also known for the brazilian voices of Christie in Pokémon, Applebloom in My Little Pony and Zuri in Jessie (TV series).Rebeca Zadra voices another of Clara's best friends Valentina and is also known for the brazilian voices of Eddie in Little People,Gilly in Game of Thrones (6 season),Gracie in Orphan Black and Kindred in League of Legends.

Michelle Giudice voices Clara's antagonist Camille and she is also known for the brazilian voices of Serena in Pokémon XY, Sonata Dusk in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Melanie Cross in Under The Dome and young Emma in Once Upon a Time. Caio Guarnieri voices Jonathan, the modeling agent from Glitter Model and he is also known for the brazilian voices of Koda/Blue Ranger in Power Rangers: Dino Charge,HooDude VooDoo in Monster High,Dexter Charming in Ever After High and Pegasus Koga in Saint Seiya Omega. Completing the team of main voices for Glitter Model, we have Fábio Azevedo which voices Clara's father André. fabio is also known for the brazilian voices of Theon Greyjoy in Game of Thrones, Aiden in Revenge (TV series) and Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange (film).

English & Spanish Dubbing
Centauro Group is a pioneer language dubbing for the international television, film, videogames and entertainment industry. Centauro has started it's operations 30 years ago, in Bogotá, Colombia and also have offices in Brazil and Miami. Centauro was in charge to cast and dub the English (in Miami) and Spanish (in Bogotá) versions of Glitter Model. Centauro is one of the most prestigee dubbing companies in the world and were choosen by Glitter Model executive producer, André Nunes, due to their vast dubbing knownledge and professional recognition. Some of Centauro's Clients are : Walt Disney Company, Tv Azteca, Cartoon Network, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Television, SyFy and Buena Vista International.

Character Illustration
All the characters of Glitter Model was designed to be more "real", so the show characters would be able to connect with all girls around the world ! Glitter Model doesn't have only stereotyped traits, but also have other kind of "bodytypes and personalities". Anderson Mahanski and his office Combo Studio were choosen to give forms to the concepts created by Angelo Nunes, criator of Glitter Model. Anderson is a gifted brazilian artist who has a classic way of drawing and was involved with other successful animated Tv series such as "My Big Big Friend" and "Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo"

Characters Animation
Glitter Model was animated with blended techniques of 2D animation and 3D animation, using softwares such as Toon Boom and Autodesk Maya. The brazilian animation studio Mono3D was in charge of bringing the characters to life and have also animated the oppening sequence of the show.