October 12, 2014

Watchtower of Turkey - Leonardo Dalessandri

I would like to thank my turkish friend Altug, for suggesting me this great video produced for Leonardo Dalessandri.



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September 8, 2014

New Generalist Reel, new job, new class at iAnimate

Hi guys,
I have some news, this week I'm starting again at Nexus, one of my favourite studios, I'm starting again at iAnimate, the 3rd class of Creature Animation Workshop (also the last one), with Scott Holmes (Animation Director at Nickelodeon Animation Studio), and I have a new Generalist Reel.

In this new reel I added some stuff done in the past months at Nexus, Territory Studio and Fold 7.


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It' s payback time - Nexus & Mpc

Here it's the new movie from Smith & Foulkes a collaboration between Nexus (CG) and Mpc (Live Action. This is really awesome.



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Kia Hamster - Mpc

Another funny ads with hamsters for Kia, superb job done at MPC.



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September 4, 2014

August 8, 2014

This way Up - Nexus Productions (Shortfilm Oscar Nominated 2009)

Finally is online the oscar nominated 2009 shortfilm from "Nexus Productions: "This Way Up".



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June 14, 2014

Tigress Shark - Woman Dances with Tiger Sharks

This is just amazing, this underwater model is doing this perfomance against the West Australian Government and his actions against the shark.

No CG has been used in this video...

Have a look.


You can find more info about the project here.




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May 28, 2014

May 17, 2014

The Evolution Of Visual Effects,136 years

Director Jim Casey created a video showing the evolution of the visual effects across 136 years.



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Around the world 360° degrees - Alex Cachon

I'm not a huge fan of selfie and all this world, but definitely you have to take a look at this awesome selfie 2 years long around the world. From The Modern Motorcycle Diaries



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May 13, 2014

Johnny Appleseed - Nexus Productions (Personal Work)

My new commercial, I had the pleasure to work a couple of weeks ago at Nexus Productions is out.
I was part of an awesome team that produce this commercial.

I was in charge of layout, camera animation / tracking, rotoanimation, character animation.

The production gave me the plate with the live action (the bottle and the glass), after that I 'll start tracking the camera by eyes, we tried with bijou but doesn't work so properly. After having a good tracking, I start animate all the secondary elements, and to clean up also a little bit the bottle and glass to have a proper animation in 3d.

So the AE artist adjusted the animation, following my guide. At the end there was just the last step to attached the 3d hand to the bottle: rotoanimation, it was quiet hard, because at some point the plate was really jumping a lot.

And for sure, I made also the "character animation", for the style of this project (wood style), they gave me 10 poses to switch all the characters according to the music.

Really happy about the final result. I would like to thanks my lead artist / supervisor on this project Florian Caspar.

Soon I'll post a making of.




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Creature workshop 02 at iAnimate

Just started a new workshop at iAnimate Class 2 of Creatures Animation, this is going to be really fun. Each week a new guest instructor taken by the best in the industry.

Just started with David Hubert, a great animator, lead character animator at Dreamworks and actually Cinematic Director at Eidos Montreal.




And tonight my first review with Scott Holmes, Animation Supervisor at Nickelodeon Animation Studios.




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May 1, 2014

Hootsuite, Game Of Social Thrones - Clement Morin

Game of Thrones title sequence reimagined for hootsuite.com by Clement Morin.

Great stuff.



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Wonderful London 1924 & 2014 - Simon Smith

An awesome collage of London by combining present day footage with the ones from 1924, produced by the filmmaker Simon Smith.

As you can see London has not changed a lot. :)



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April 15, 2014

Karrimor - Fold7 (Personal work)

Hi followers,
the new commercial I had the pleasure to work on at Fold7 is out.

Please have a look, I have done all the modelling, layout, 3d tracking, camera animation lighting and rendering with 3ds max + vray.



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March 13, 2014

Bansky with Syria

Third anniversary of the Syria war, a special video to remember made by Bansky.


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March 10, 2014

Almost Home, Shortfilm - Dreamworks Animation

Great shortfilm to introduce the new Christmas movie from Dreamworks "Almost Home".














http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/home-exclusive-introduction-video


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Game of Thrones Season 4: Trailer #3 - Secrets (HBO)

Another trailer for the new season of Game of Thrones.



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February 27, 2014

Illustration reel - Tiago Hoisel

Either if you are an illustrator or not, you have to see this reel. It's terrific...


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February 26, 2014

Documentary "Life after Pi"

In 2013 Rithm&Hues won the Academy Award in visual effects for "Life of Pi", 11 days after declaring bancruptcy...

This is how it starts the documentary on the vfx industry Life of Pi.

The Documentary describes all the politics subsidies there are behind a movie and why at this time this is not working...

In 2008 I had the opportunity to visit their studio at Venice Beach, and  it was a great experience, plenty of great artists, awesome stuff.

Let's hope something will change in the future.




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February 25, 2014

Justin and the knights of valour - Roberto Zincone Reel

Today I would like to share a reel from an incredible talented animator: Roberto Zincone.

This is reel, done while he was working at Kandor Graphics for "Justin and the knights of valour" 



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Amor a vida - Ryan Woodward

Let's dance again with Ryan Woodward.



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February 24, 2014

Generalist Reel Spring 2014 - Matteo Sanna (Personal Work)

There it is, my new Generalist Reel, with a collection of the stuff done in the last 4 years, and especially in the last 2 years working in London: mostly commercials, motion graphic and music videos.




I'm looking for new opportunities...
Enjoy it and share on the web.

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Peppermint - Julio Bashmore (Personal Project

Finally is out my last project: Peppermint the new video of Julio Bashmore.

I have been working on this project for about 6 weeks. I started at Blink working close with the Director Noah Harris (one of the most famous director at Blink) on the previz for this video and helping him to visualize all the different aspect of the production: modelling all the elements of the video with the proper scale, especiallty the head that has been printed in 3d, and working on all the animations in sync with the music. I help him visualize all the sequence, producing all the camera animation, all those datas has been imported in the camera track for the final shooting.

After around 3 weeks of previs, I move to post production at Prodigious, working on a sequence in full Cg. I worked closed with Rodi Kaya, a great 3d artist. We worked on 12 shots. I produce all the camera animation, 3d animation (of the body) for 6 shots.

I modelled the hands, to make it as close as possible with the real one used during the shooting. At the end of production, I fixed any secondary issue in the full cg sequence: lipsync, body skin issue, hands 3d model and sync with the music, taking care merging all the shots and I coordinate the production of the shots checking that everything was fine, before the final render.

Has been another great experience to work on, pretty "original".




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February 17, 2014

January 20, 2014

Climb a wall ( Personal Project)

And finally this is a personal shot I worked to improve my skills on body mechanics.

I have done all the animation and the environment.



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William Hill Vegas - Art & Graft

This is another great production I had the pleasure to be part, at Art & Graft.



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Ladbrokes Mobile - Blacionica

Past November I workd at Blacionica on this series of commercials.
I was responsible for the first scene the one with the mobile and the last one with the dartboard.
I modelled everything, create the texture, shader and final render.




 
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Universal Channel Christmas Rebranding - Unit Post Production

This is a logo rebranding I had the pleasure to work on at Unit Post Production.







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Back at iAnimate and on my blog (hopefully)

Hi guys,
in the last time I left in standby my blog, I have been really busy, working and jumping from one studio to another one. I had a great time and I knew a lot of people.

Right now I'm working at Blink Ink, the studio behind "John Lewis" Chistmas Commercials. The project is still undisclosed but soon I'll show you something.

And finally I'm back at iAnimate, starting a new awesome workshop of Creatures with instructos John Spinelly a great instructor. This is his latest reel:




Hope to be able soon to show you something, in the meanwhile. I'll left you with some of the stuff done be me in the past months.

Have a look at my next posts.


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January 19, 2014

January 12, 2014

The Sounf of Taste - Grey London

Sometimes it's all about music. Grey London



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