GOLEM | DRAFT CONCEPT, COLOR

Bah, step 2 was better anyway.

GOLEM | DRAFT CONCEPT, INKED

Clicking on the image brings out a nice resolution preview.
Next step: color.

GOLEM | DRAFT CONCEPT

See you tomorrow with the finished one.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN | 3

I finished the animation process, still have to do the post production, but I built a sort of beta of the whole animation. Many errors can be spotted here and there and most important: keep in mind that post production is TOTALLY garbage, it's more a placeholder for things to come, but it gets to the point for a demo presentation of the project.
I will post the final thing (no ugly flares popping out from nowhere etc etc) as soon as I have the time to fix everything.
The whole promo of "the dark side of the sun" will be shown early this week at the international documentary market "the sunny side of the doc" (no it's not a joke, and it wasn't intentional) in la Rochelle, France.
In the end I'm very happy for what came out in five days of work (thanks to Gabriele Gianni who helped me with the colour fills for the cels), I hope I will have the chance to animate again soon.
Here is a frame of animation and the whole thing on youtube HD (only the animation part, the full promo will be online very soon). Watch it fullscreen and HD, please.
Hope you'll like it.

Music by: Carlo Hintermann and Mario Salvucci
Editing: Piero Lassandro
Assistant animator: Gabriele "Hundred Paintbucket Fist" Gianni

CRACK 2009 | IPhone Fun

Colored two of the doodles I made at CRACK09 in Rome.

SUPER SPOON SHOT

C'è solo un capitano.

Details to follow.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN | 2

First lineart animation test.
Please watch it fullscreen for better resolution (HD available).

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN | 1

My friend Carlo Hintermann is directing a film called "The Dark Side Of The Sun".
It's about a very rare genetic disease that causes lethal skin cancer when you are exposed to sunlight.
It will host approx. 20 minutes of animation, and I'm in charge for this part of the movie.
I will do everything, from scratch to finish, including backgrounds and compositing.
I want to test myself on a big animation project, that's why I'm in.
It's been a while I wanted to do this, and after seeing Makoto Shinkai's works I started thinking more positively about the chance to do an animation short, all alone.
Here is the first background (click the image to see it), a multi layered image that spans thru 8 HD screens to allow parallactic panning.
I'll try to keep posting new stuff as soon as I finish each step. The first minute must be ready on thursday so expect more coming very soon.

DEVO for LAMETTE

I did a 4 page ministory about DEVO for LAMETTE, Rock'n'Roll Special.
Here's the third page.

BACK IN GUM PALACE | REJECTED

Here is some stuff I made some time ago for MAMMOOTH album "Back in gum palace".
All the guys from Mammooth were very happy with both of 'em, but the producer said they were "too weird" and gave the work to another designer. It happens sometimes. Still a good chance to draw, and this is the only thing that matters.

THE PASSENGER

A (very) young director: my illustration for "The Passenger", a special issue about cinema.

HYPER ADVANCED BEAUTY | 5

PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI: HUGE EXPLORER

Hey!
It's me!
When I got to dissonanze festival tonight, I was shocked seeing my drawings used THIS BIG.
Hah!

(SORRY FOR THE PHONE QUALITY PHOTOS, IPHONE CAMERA SUCKKKKS)

ARA PACIS EXHIBITION FOR DISSONANZE 09

Here are some crappy phone camera shoots of my illustrations 2 days exhibition at ARA PACIS AUGUSTEA in Rome.

DISSONANZE 09

Sarah Grimaldi, creative director for Xister, an advertising agency based in Rome, asked me to develop her concept for Dissonanze 09 music festival. My work consisted in 24 black and white 70x100 cm hatched illustrations. The visual/conceptual guidelines were to give a Darwinian scientific discovery twist to the artists involved into the festival. They should have looked like a hand renderd note of new animal species, something nobody has never seen before described in it's peculiar details by hand, pen and ink.

Here is the official image for the festival, neon blue graphic design and classy typography by Sarah Grimaldi:



And here are the illustrations for the artists. Design and Typo by allmighty Sarah Grimaldi.


















If you had the opportunity to see the printed things (20 A3 folded flyers weree created for the event promotion, one for each artist), you can actually appreciate the hatching details. For your web viewing pleasure here are some close shots of the orginal b/w versions (most of them are 25% of the final 70x100 cm thing).