To the rest of her family, the Portuguese animator Regina Pessoa’s Uncle Thomas was ‘a nobody’, with his intricate obsessive-compulsive rituals preventing him from holding a steady job or starting a family. But to a young Pessoa, his obsessions – including hours spent daily on cleaning and grooming, and a preoccupation with numbers – were intriguing. Eventually, his talents and eccentricities would help set her on the path of becoming a celebrated animator, as he taught her how to draw the dimensions of a human body using charcoal sticks on the walls of her grandmother’s house.[…]

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