THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN

The Dark Side of the Sun is a film about children that have a very rare disease, XP.
In people with XP, sun causes skin cancer and other serious body damage even with very short exposure to it's UV rays.

Dan & Karen Mahar decided to make a dream come true and founded Camp Sundown, a very special place in the woods north of new york, where all the children with XP could play together in a UV free environment.



Carlo Hintermann (Citrullo International) went to Camp Sundown to shoot what it started as a plain documentary.
Things changed a lot :)

I was asked to try a completely different take on the narrative and develop an animated side story.
Now I'm so involved with this project I don't think I will find the time for anything else unless It's finished (march 2011, very optimistic).

The whole project will end in a 30/40 minutes 2K animated story, done in 2d traditional (but paperless) animation.
I'm now biulding a small and fast super hero team (4/5 people at the most) to help me with this ridiculous amount of work to do (8-12 fps hand drawn stuff!).

NHK, Japanese TV, is co-producing.
I'm VERY excited.

Here are the first studies, hope you'll like 'em!

Father Night:




Katie:


Hannah:


McKenzie:



Rachael:



Chris:



A first study of all the characters:


And a style/quality test render:

MAREMOTO

A doodle I did one year ago at maremoto festival.
Always liked it, never understood why.
Today I noticed it resembles Kaki King.
Kaki King in my opinion is one of the most beautiful being in the world, ever (not to mention she's one of my favourite musicians too - if you never heard anything have a Look: 1. 2. 3. 4. and 5.).
Maybe this explains why I was satisfied with the doodle.
End of the story.

Yes: no way to sleep tonight and it's half past five in the morning.

YOU ARE NOW KYNE

I opened a game related Blog. Beware.
Illustration by Roger Dean.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE | Tattoo design for my friend Davide.

Davide and Elena just married!

Here are some progress shots.

Rough Sketch

Tracing the sketch:

The monochrome full composition.

Hommages

A tattoo for my dear friend Riccardo:



And, at last, Sarah & Vlady, I managed to find some time for this "Dama con piccolo cane cinese":



In the next days I will post some breaking news.
Stay tuned.

LRNZ VIDEO DEPOT ON VIMEO

Here!
I finally decided to open a Vimeo profile.

Alice in Wonderland | The Cheshire Cat

My take on a super classic.
Soon available in a super secret super cool book, a compliation of several stories about Wonderland's citizens.

ILLUSTRATION TEST

Forced myself to keep everything on 5 photoshop layers, no selections.
Layers are: Pencils, color, ambience post, blacks and graphics.

SKETCH

Experimenting with a new technique.
Tomorrow the finished one.

MEDIATECA UBU | LRNZ | MAICOL E MIRCO

Here we are at Mediateca UBU in Montefano, beautiful hometown of our friend Marco Bragaglia.
We took over the bar, and after drinking everything we could we decided to pay tribute to it, our way: we decorated it so that everyone could feel the friendship that Aperitivo Analcolico Sanpellegrino (AAS) and Red Wine can bring to us.
Hope to have the chance to colour it, maybe next time!

TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE MUSEUM | MATTER VS ENERGY

Back from the grave!
Here's an illustrated (1mt tall) panel I made for the national museum of science and technology Leonardo Da Vinci , in Milan.
Seems like it will be there for a while (maybe permanent), and this is thanks to mr. Matteo Stefanelli for the never ending kindness in trusting this wild idea.
Hope you'll like it!

LRNZ | FUTURO ANTERIORE | EVENT HORIZON

VERY VERY honoured to be selected for Futuro Anteriore 2010 (BLACK) at Napoli COMICON.

Event Horizon, my story, is about a lost spaceman that turns into a black hole, devouring the entire universe as we know it.

Event Horizon will be printed as part of the Futuro Anteriore 2010 book.
You can see the panels at Napoli Comicon.

Text by Alessandro Caroni.
Japanese Adaptation Federica Lippi.

See you in Naples!

GOLEM | Poster 1

50x70 cm poster.
For sale at Napoli Comicon 2010.

MORE MIT 2010

The second wave:






T shirt artwork:






Annnnd here is the big guy:

GOLEM | -18

GOLEM | -19

GOLEM | THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN

I'm very excited to announce that my work on Golem has finally started.
Golem is my first long story, something between 23 and 25 episodes total, for approximately 500 pages.

First episode out on Pic Nic N°1, end of april 2010.

"Golem", original story by LRNZ, future concept and background scripting by Emanuele Sabetta, screenplay by Daniele Capuano and Alessandro Caroni, art by LRNZ.

JAPAN ANIME LIVE LOGO

Designed this logo/mascotte for THE international Anime event, in collaboration with BANDAI, Shueisha, Studio Pierrot, SONY ANIPLEX, Toei Animation, TV Tokyo and Sunrise.

From their website:

The first and official live event made and performed by the
Japanese creators of the famous Manga and Anime series
WORLD PREMIERE – PARIS, Zénith - October 2010
The Greatest SHOW OF MANGA & ANIME ever conceived in the World.
JAPAN ANIME LIVE is an extraordinary event that brings live on stage the “all-star” of
the world of Japanese animation such as NARUTO-SHIPPUDEN,
FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST BROTHERHOOD, BLEACH, ONE PIECE
and GUNDAM Series.
A unique show for the first time on tour in Europe.
JAPAN ANIME LIVE is a mix of live action, live recitation, special stories, flamboyant
effects and live music to sing along with the public the original theme songs of the TV
series.
JAPAN ANIME LIVE is a fast paced POP OPERA that puts into reality a world of fantasy
and its heroes. A time-space gate that connects the fans with the dream world of Anime. A “must-attend” event for all cosplayers and Japanese pop culture lovers in general.
JAPAN ANIME LIVE is what you will never watch on TV: in fact all animations and
stories have been re-created and re-edited exclusively for the show and what’s more, they contain hidden facts about the stories of the beloved Anime characters.
Over two and half hours of breathtaking show, divided into five chapters, each one
devoted to an animated series, dynamically orchestrated by a script that combines all the different elements of the show.
All contents featured in JAPAN ANIME LIVE are licensed and created by Aniplex, Toei
Animation, Sunrise, Pierrot, TV Tokyo and Shueisha, which are the major Japanese
Anime-maker companies.

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