Cícero Moraes is a Brazilian 3D designer, whose work in open source programs like

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and MakeHuman has become a reference in the field of forensic facial reconstruction in his country. Santa Rosa de Lima Ebrafol

Biography

His best-known work is the facial reconstruction of St.

Anthony of Padua Anthony of Padua, Order of Friars Minor, OFM, (; ; ) or Anthony of Lisbon (; ; ; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. ...

, performed in partnership with the Centro Studi Antoniani (which works inside the

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), the Museum of Anthropology at the

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, the Technology Center Renato Archer and the group of archaeological research Arc-Team. The work was done entirely with free software. During the year 2013 he created 12 panels on facial reconstruction related to human evolution, these were presented in the exhibition "Faces of Evolution" at the Egyptian and Rosicrucian Museum in

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, Brazil. All images displayed on that exhibition were donated to the Wikimedia Commons and came to illustrate posts of important publications online linked to science. In partnership with Rodolfo Melani, PhD and Paulo Eduardo Miamoto Dias, PhD at the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of São Paulo (FOUSP), Moraes wrote an article which describes the scanning techniques and facial reconstruction using only free software, and also participated in publications which describe the conversion of a video into a CT scan, presented at an international conference on computer graphics in Portugal. The partnership with Dr. Dias earned him two awards for best scientific poster at events of forensic dentistry and forensic anthropology at national and international level. In August 2014, Moraes was awarded with an honorary degree from the City Council of Sinop, the Commendation Colonizer Enio Pipino, which was offered in honor of national and international projection provided to the city where he resides. In February 2015, he performed 27 facial reconstructions, of which 22 were related to human evolution and 5 were related to historic people of the city of Padua. The reconstructions were presented at the exhibit "FACCE - i molti volti della storia umana" (FACES. The Many Visages of Human History), organized by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Padova, the group of open archaeological research Arc-Team and the Association of Anthropologists Antrocom Onlus. Besides St. Anthony's facial reconstruction, he also reconstructed the historic faces of poet Francesco Petrarca, devotee Luca Belludi and scientist Giovanni Battista Morgagni. Cícero Moraes was one of the main members of the Ebrafol, Brazilian Team of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology that reconstructed the face of

Rose of Lima Rose of Lima, TOSD (born Isabel Flores de Oliva; 20 April 1586 24 August 1617) (, ), was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the pover ...

and Martin of Porres, in Peru. The designer worked in other projects of facial reconstruction with the Catholic Church. On the Animal Avengers group, Moraes developed animal prosthetic based on 3D-printed technology. They saved a lot of animals that would otherwise have had to be put down, like a goose, a toucan, an

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and a macaw. The designer was responsible for reconstruction the skull and the face of Lord of Sipan, an ancient Moche leader, in Peru. A few months later the designer has reconstructed the face of the Czech "vampire" of Celakovice. At the end of 2016, he worked in modeling human prosthesis with computer aid with experts at the University Paulista (UNIP) in São Paulo. In an associated project with the Brazilian Academy of Hagiology (ABRHAGI), Cícero Moraes reconstructed the face of

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, presented to the public on 13 February 2017. Perak Man, the most complete skeleton found in Southeast Asia, was uncovered at Gua Gunung Runtuh, Malaysia in 1990. The 11,000-year-old Perak Man now has a face, thanks to Cicero Moraes with a team of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) researchers. This work has been published in an academic journal, The Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences on 24 February 2021. Since 2023, he is a member of

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and Mensa.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moraes, Cicero 1982 births Living people Brazilian designers People from Chapecó Forensic artists People from Sinop, Mato Grosso Mensans