About – Turi Scandurra

Salvatore Scandurra (Turi)

// PROFILE

I’m an experienced Creative Technologist and Designer with a focus on innovation and a strong background in visual storytelling.
I use new technologies to produce and deliver story-first, design-led content, bringing life and emotion into things that move.

// SKILLS

Creative Design and Media Production

Creative digital design
Advanced motion graphics
Code-based animated infographics
AI image generation, model fine-tuning
Storyboarding and pre-visualization
Corporate video production, from concept to delivery
Video editing and color grading
Recording and writing for podcasts
Illustration of most styles and media

Web and App Development

UX/UI design, digital product and interaction design
Fluent in C/C++, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Lua, PHP, HTML, CSS
Git, Docker, virtual environments
Pixel-perfect responsive templating, asset production and prototyping
Arduino, Raspberry Pi and other hardware microcontrollers
(code: github.com/TuriSc/)

// SOFTWARE

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, After Effects, Premiere Pro, XD), Figma, InVision, Apple Final Cut Studio, Blender, Cinema 4D, Unity
Stable Diffusion, Jupyter Notebook, offline LLMs
Custom UNIX scripts for project management and batch image processing
Digital audio recording and processing (music and electronics are my hobby)
I’m very quick to pick up new software skills – I love learning!

// Feathers in my cap

Outstanding visualization skills
Great organizational and self-organizational skills, ability to work unsupervised
Propensity to creatively work outside the job description
Dexterity to work in fast-paced environment and to cope with short deadlines, scaling the level of finesse up or down according to the time available
I’m a generalist but I hop into specialisms when a project calls for it
Ability (and patience!) to train others and to create training material

// PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Paragon-DCX, London
2019 (October) – Present

Lead creative development, managing storyboarding, design, and cross-functional collaboration.
Digital design, production and animation of motion graphics and corporate animations for Abbvie, Kellogg’s, Schroders, Aviva, Goldman Sachs, Danone, DeWalt, MS Amlin, Honeywell, EDF. Samples: bit.ly/3vAQxFi, youtu.be/jFwWu6vdLV0
Passionate about innovation, exploring AI-driven design and generative effects.
Conference Speaker: spoke at Acquia Engage London 2024 on “From Prompts to Pixels: Supercharging Creative Content with AI”.

CIPD, London
2015 (July) – 2019 (October)

Art direction and animation of motion graphics, explainer videos, product teasers, and social media assets. Samples: youtu.be/61oCT8wJGNU, youtu.be/j5C_LNRnSTE
Development of a strategic reference asset, working closely with the Customer Experience Team. Link: bit.ly/2HQG8N7
Leading the internal video production unit. Producing filmed content and training team members to film interviews, record podcasts and produce branded videos
Development and documentation of a tool and API to generate interactive infographics and visual web content.
UX, design and front-end development of responsive webapps. Screencast: youtu.be/iBel3zh_gVc
Line managing, and in charge for the development of, junior designers

Tag Worldwide, London
2015 (January – May)

Online advertising digital design and production for Nike, Sony, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Argos, Boots, Amazon

BBH/Addictive Pixel, London
2014 (October – December)

Online advertising digital design and production for Axe/Lynx, British Airways
Asset design, production and animation for Barclays Code Playground. Promo: youtu.be/-iWQnRIJZic
UX/UI design and usability planning of a digital catalog for fashion retailer Boden

Timbuktu Labs (now Rebel Girls), San Francisco
2014

Visual development of an animated series
Illustration of four books accompanied by an interactive app
Trade show delegate

Freelancer
2004 – 2014

Further employment history available upon request

// EDUCATION

2013 – Master of Fine Arts in Traditional Animation (Triennial) – Academy of Art University, School of Animation and Visual Effects, San Francisco, USA
Final project: youtu.be/XMIL_tEAR6A

2008 – Laurea (BA + MA) in DAMS Cinema (Disciplines of Arts, Music and Spectacle) – Università di Bologna