About me

Downloadable CV at the bottom of this page.

I’m an italian freelance illustrator and CG artist. I graduated at Liceo Artistico Statale in Verona and I have been student of illustrator and painter Giorgio Scarato.

By working since 1988 as freelance illustrator for advertising and publishing, I mastered traditional painting techniques (pastels, inks, gouaches, acrilics, ecoline, watercolors, oils, airgraph and all of them as mixed media) and later I started to use also computer graphic.

I’ve been teaching illustration and graphic design in several italian art schools and I’m a Blender trainer both for companies and private citizens.

In 2005 I won the Blender’s Suzanne Awards for “Best Animation, original idea and story” with the animation “New Penguoen 2.38“, you can see it also here and here is a making of.
In 2006 I joined as 3D Generalist the Orange Team in Amsterdam, to help for the two last weeks of production in finalizing the shots of the first opensource cg animated short movie of the Blender Foundation “Elephants Dream“.
In 2007 I’ve been selected as Lead Artist to be in the team for the project Peach, spending six months at the Blender Institute in Amsterdam to realize their second opensource cg animated short movie “Big Buck Bunny“.

At the end of 2009 I’ve been contacted by CINECA (Bologna) to be the Art Director for the production of the stereoscopic short movie “Apa alla scoperta di Bologna” for the Museo della Città di Bologna project.

In 2012 I’ve been asked to write a “Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook” for “PACKT Publishing“.
In 2015 I wrote an update: “Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook – Third Edition“.
In 2015, for the same publisher, I wrote also the “Blender 3D Cookbook“, a manual about the complete workflow to create from scratch a character in Blender.

I collaborated with “Studio Bozzetto” at the production of the “Topo Tip (Tip the Mouse)” italian television series, modeling almost the half of the characters of the show and painting several asset textures, with “Arx Anima” in Vienna as Senior Character Modeler and with DogHead Animation as Senior 3D Environment / Set Artist for animated features currently still in production.

As freelance illustrator I collaborated with italian publishers like Demetra, Edizioni del Baldo, Gribaudo, Giunti, Piemme, Albero del Mistero and Mondadori Ragazzi mainly for educational, fantasy, horror and sci-fi books.

EXPOSITIONS:

• “Libri dall’iperspazio” – Biblioteca Nazionale Borgo San Lorenzo (Firenze – Italy), 1993
• “Incontro Nazionale Illustratori e Scrittori del Fantastico” – Chiavari (Genova – Italy), 1994
• “Fancon’94” – Courmayeur (Aosta – Italy)
• “Cavalieri della Fantasia” – Lavagna (Genova – Italy), 1995/1996
• “8 artisti” – Cologna Veneta (Verona – Italy), 2002
• “Le Immagini della Fantasia” – Sarmede (Treviso – Italy), 2006
• “Le Immagini della Fantasia” – Galleria di Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti (Verona – Italy), 2007
• “ROMEO, le avventure di un gatto di Verona” – Galleria della Biblioteca Civica Ragazzi (Verona – Italy), 2012

PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS:

• “Introduzione a Blender”, Facoltà di architettura – Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 2005
• “Linux Beach” in S. Benedetto del Tronto (Italy), 2006
• “Blender Conference – Penguins vs Dinosaurs!” in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2007
• “Sparkling Peach” in Rome (Italy), 2008
• “Athens Digital Week” in Athens (Greece), 2008
• “Blender Conference – The making of Big Buck Bunny” in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2008
• “Future Film Festival” in Bologna (Italy), 2009
• “Cortoons – Blender e Open Peach Project” in Rome (Italy), 2009
• “View Conference 2009 – Blender Base: e adesso che l’ho aperto che faccio?”, Torino (Italy), 2009
• “Scuola di Archeologia Virtuale”, CNR–ITABC e Università di Padova, Monselice (Italy), 2010
• “Scuola Specialistica di Grafica Interattiva”, CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna (Italy), 2010
• “Linux Day – Disegnare con the Gimp”, in Aosta (Italy), 2011
• “View Conference 2011 – Producing a short film with computer graphics: a multidisciplinary
  all-Italian experience”, Turin (Italy), 2011
• “Arte e Scienza in piazza – Open data for open minds”, in Bologna (Italy), 2013
• “Giovani e Crossmedialità – We Art Technology – Introduzione al mondo del 3D con Blender”, in Vigevano (Italy), 2013
• “Incontro presso la Scuola Internazionale di Comics – Accademia delle Arti Figurative e Digitali”, in Brescia (Italy), 2014