went to La Specola last weekend where i met some cool friends* there. we ended up drawing insects all morning and thats undoubtedly a nice thing. =)

*nadia, andrea, ema, gio, lacame, marco

morning sketches

again, some practice with photoshop selection tool.

ahh good holydays! gotta keep up practicing some more...

finally some updates, working on more stuff!

copy dragon

Last drawing is the previous design of this secretary dragon i did last year.

ok so this animal EXISTS!

i frequently look at Rad's drawings, i find his stuff extremely inspiring!

CGMA week 5 and 6

here is my last assignments for the past two weeks at CGMA. This time the class had to deal with texture blending to render surfaces more realistically. I'm pretty happy of the results but for me it is not that easy to handle such a big amount of details, which makes lights so hard to control. by the way, textures are a great tool to quickly get the feeling of the surface you're looking for, without too many attempts or compromises.

hope you enjoy!

the black sketches on top left are my favourite method to look for the right shapes.

in case you're wondering... no, he's not some kind of navi pirate -.-

CGMA Week 3 and 4

these are my assignments for week 3 and 4 at CGMA, where i  especially focused on material's rendering.
both designs are reworks of things coming from my childhood. i actually had (maybe still i) an old typewriter with which i used to write terrible short adventure stories. owning it, really made me feel a great  writer back then.
at the time i was a real fan of the REAL ghostbusters. i loved the show so much i made myself a couple of handcrafted protopacks using toy parts and scrap. anyhow i rarely played the ghost hunter part since i was the only kid following the show so i often used them to play war.

hurry up smee mouse!

CGMA Week 1 and 2

here some sketches and finished pictures from my first two lessons at cgma. the frist one was about movie composition studies, where composition itself has it's own part in storytelling. the next lesson was about character and enviromental studies using lasso and pen tool in photoshop.

again, the sketch here were so much better!!

yes, i love cars

i had a lot of fun!

i finally managed to come out with something new tonight! i had a frustrating art block right after 3 intense months where i have been tremendously busy illustrating a bunch of books for primary school and pre-scholar. the new job doesn't allow me too much freedom nor enough time to put the effort i would. But on the other side i have chance to illustrate books for child education and psycology (subjects i've always loved) while tight deadlines really makes you learn how to be very fast and the value of compromise all over what you do.

however i hope i can work for the animation industry again soon! meanwhile i'm going to start a digital painting  class at CGMA the next october 22th.

La mostra mostri si è trasferita al Santeria di Milano dal 13 al 22 Settembre.
Qui i dettagli dell'evento, parteciperanno alla mostra nuovi artisti con tante nuove opere =)

night on bald pate

patey pate is defintely one of the most charming cartoon villains of all time. i love him in the episode "night on bald pate"; voice acting and key animation is simply perfect!
you can watch the entire episode here on youtube.

i copied a few frames tonight just for fun. all the poses are so well done and expressive, i think there is a lot to learn...

what makes an arch villain?
can it be uncaring destiny that it sole to blame or is it merely bad luck?

"i have a message for Mighty Mouse"

i am very grateful to bakshi.