LRNZ | MEET IN TOWN

Ok I know: this is a borderline illustration work.
It's more a illustration on photos process.
I usually don't like people working with photos.

Still I want to share it on this blog.

It's my work for Meet in Town, a music festival in Rome.
Xister involved me in the project as a creative director.

Honestly, I started working on it as a joke, but it did get dead serious in the end!
The basic idea was to develop a 3 step communication process, a teaser, the evolution and the final images.

Each step is made of 3 images and three simple animations I made starting from the illustrations.

The concept is very easy: 3 huge mysterious objects are coming, one from the desert, one from the ocean and one from the sky (yes, it's a SENTAI tribute).
Where do they come from and what are they coming for?

Then I got this idea to use the main auditorium structures as alien vessels and it was very fun to develop.
Hope that Renzo Piano will have fun as much as I did.

I hope that after the whole set of posters is out, somebody will think of the real auditorium as a GIANT action figure set of a sci fi movie rather than modern architecture. Maybe it will look like a fake repro of my spaceships.

Moreover: you are actually going INTO those BIG spaceships - to party.


These are the first images, including some previews for the next round of illustrations.
Enjoy!







Here are the first three videos:

EARTH VIDEO

SEA VIDEO

SKY VIDEO


Font by ADE Creative Studio!

Music and SFX by SNOB/MIT

Hobby Comics 3 | Astrogamma Ep02

Things to come.

SOLOMON KANE + SINISTER BARRIER BOOKCOVERS

Here are 2 book covers I did for Coniglio Editore.
One is for Solomon Kane, a novel by Conan the barbarian's author, the other is for Sinister Barrier, a classic scifi weird story.
Never did a cover for a book.
So I started with two :)

Both covers were done in the same VERY quick technique (2hours each).
It's basically a quick draft photoshop sketch, layered with true paint spatters, and then rendered with a quick, standard photoshop white brush.

The original files are very big, while the final output will be rather small so I didn't care to hide all the photoshop artifacts as they will blend during the downscaling process generating interesting subpixel details.

Below the covers and the process!

Here is Solomon Kane:




And Sinister Barrier:





And the process:

Quick sketch:


Watercolour Spatter:


Rendering details:

LRNZ EXHIBITION | FUSOLAB ROME | HHLV

HHLV (Honba Hyper Laser Vision) is my selected works solo exhibition, presented by Laboratorio Creativo Fusolab.
Via G. Pitacco 29, Rome (click link for google map).
I'll be there for sure for the opening, friday 11/12/2009 starting at 9:00 PM till 2:00 AM. The exhibition will last one month ending on 17/01/2010.
You'll also have the chance to buy some very exclusive stuff, like portfolios and limited edition prints.
Don't miss it! Everyone is invited!

LRNZ for Zeroguide 2010 | Torino

I illustrated book about Turin thanks to mr Matteo Stefanelli.
It's the 2010 guide to Turin by Edizioni Zero, a deluxe small book full of good informations to spend your time in F.W. Nietzsche favourite city!
Moreover it will be out SOON, and (TAH DAAAAH) for FREEEEE!
It features one of the 1825 named "Sol", acting as the main character.
Check it out!