Sceneries from old german and dutch engravings (works from my final dissertation)

These above are some of my favourite works I carried out for my final dissertation at college (at the time of my Academy of Fine Arts degree).
The dissertation was based on the engravings of the 14th and 15th century by some dutch and german artists of the time.
One of the main ones was obviously Albrecht Durer, who was a brilliant and illuminated painter and engraver, one of the greatest of his time, and upon him my dissertation was mainly focused.
I principally focused my attention on the backgrounds of these engravings, which obviously reflected deeply the society and the time in which the works were conceived and created.
I truly found that element one of the most fascinating within that microcosmos of masterpieces, and that's why my eye went closer and closer to those scenaries and backgrounds, as to scan and probe every single little detail enclosed within them, just as a microscope would do.
These works reflect my long study upon those ancient prints, and the feeling that accompanied me while I was going deeper and deeper into their dimension.
I find very interesting the analogy between these works and my final project, in terms of graphic style, as I think it shows clearly.

Colorist at Partizan Lab for "Violent and young" by Iglu and Hartly

I worked at Partizan Lab with other colleague animators from the animation course on this music video, we've been all busy coloring lots of scenes in the final push of the making of the animation...our help has been essential! It was nice to work all in a team with my ex classmates, it was good fun and a precious experience workwise.

Flash animator for "Eli's first day at playcentre"

This is the first animation project I worked on together with other classmates from the animation course. It was for a playcentre in Camden, and it was sponsored and commissioned by the Camden Council. We've been given the characters, and we had to animate them. It was fun. The children and the playworkers in the animation are based on real chldren and playworkers from the playcentre.
We went to visit it some time after, and it's been nice to meet them in the flesh, after having spent all that time animating the characters...

Storyboard for final film

This is the storyboard I made for my final film at the Lçondon Animation Studio, which you can see just below the storyboard and my animation compilation showreel. I had to shrink down the story in my final film, cause as it was in the storyboard it was gonna be a bit too long for animating it, ans also a bit less clear in terms of storyline. But I really like the way the storyoard of it looks like in its full lenght, I think it gives the idea of the feeling I wanted to express, through shots and close ups of the charaters and their facial expressions. So here it is!

Storyboard for final film

My graduation film for the National Gallery

This here above is my final project I carried out at the PG Dip 2d Character Animation Course at the London Animation Studio (Central Saint Martins College of art and design) this year... We did this final project sponsored by the National Gallery, and we had to choose a painting from their collection, and base our animation on that painting. My animation is based on the painting "Ruggiero and Angelica" by Jean-August Dominique Ingres (the painting above).
I called the Animation "the knight and the dragon" cause that's esentially what it is about. I partly changed the content of the painting, replacing the sea monster with a dragon, which is the imaginary creature I've always loved the most.
it mainly follows the gesture of the painting, except for the setting, which in the painting is a dark sea shore, whereas in my animation is a dark forest instead, with gnarled trees and a gloomy atmosphere...I've chosen this painting cause I always loved fantasy themes and creatures, so I thought it would have been exciting for me to challenge myself producing the longest animation I worked on so far having this as a theme.
I recently completed it. It took quite a long time, but I'm pretty happy with the outcome, it made it all worth it! So this is the final version of it, for everybody to view it.
I'm currently coloring it as well in my spare time.
It's taking a while, cause I'm coloring all frame by frame...
But it's looking good I must say. So I'm hoping to re-upload the colored version some time soon!

Sticker and Color Albums (Published works)

These are some covers of children sticker and color albums I did when I was working for a Publishing Firm based in Rome. All these works have therefore been published. The Publishing Firm does stuff for kids, color books, sticker albums and publications with gadgets. I was a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for the firm. My job was to hand draw illustrations and covers for their publications, then scan them, color the covers on photoshop, do all the pages layouts, including the layouts of titles of the publications and publishing details, and finally bring everything on Quark Xpress and do the print layouts of all the pages. I worked for the firm for quite a long period, almost two years, so that allowed me to learn loads of techincal and professional things, which I'm still using now for animation.