Creative Technologist and Designer
– So, what do you do for a living?
– I move things.
– Like what? Do you move furniture? Walk animals, drive cars? Do you juggle balls, rotate stars, fly paper planes?
– Yes.
A collection of my latest CGI experiments, with examples of physics simulation, material design, motion tracking and match-lighting. They’re all personal projects, as I did not include commissions or commercial work.
The music track was in part performed on a new digital/analog hybrid synthesizer I’m putting together.
Every summer since 2010 my family and I, together with the cultural association Taormina Jazz, have been organizing the Taormina Jazz Festival.
Of the artists presented, some play traditional jazz, while others dedicated their musical research to more experimental forms.
We’ve had David Kikoski, Ed Howard and Nasheet Waits,
Kurt Elling, Charlie Hunter and Derrek Phillips, Kenny Werner, The Bad Plus, and many others.
I curated part of PR and the brand identity of the festival and produced several posters, program booklets and promotional videos.
I designed a large set of illustrations for the CIPD Profession Map.
This project was the perfect opportunity to represent the many diversities of inclusive workplaces, while challenging common stereotypes regarding gender, ethnicity, age, physical abilities.
We went beyond the avoidance of preconceptions to appeal to a global audience – it was a conscious use of illustration as an unbiased brand language to speak for the professional values promoted by the campaign.
The people I was asked to draw are not just neutral models. They are active characters, interacting with each other, often displaying a hierarchy or relationship of power.
Illustrations for the CIPD’s Experience Assessment route
Animated GIF for a large junk food corporation (de-branded).
Illustrations of the six capitals observed by Integrated Reporting: Financial, Manufactured, Intellectual, Human, Social and relationship, Natural.
The report they appear in is part of the Valuing your Talent research conducted by the CIPD and CIMA.
Art direction and animation of a teaser video for an upcoming survey report by the CIPD, which inspired the space observation metaphor.
Animated in After Effects with a lot of custom expressions.
Art direction, illustration and animation of a motion graphics video and related engagement media for a research report by CIPD on how HR can develop organisations with well-being at their core for happier, healthier, sustainable business.
Art direction, illustration and animation of the teaser video and engagement media for Valuing your Talent – a collaborative, industry-led movement helping organizations realize the full potential of their workforce through understanding and measuring the impact and contribution of people to business performance.
Motion graphics. Part of a larger series of animated creatives.
Custom flat icon set designed for an e-learning platform.
Four books illustrated by my friend Federico Gaggero and me, for Timbuktu Labs (now Rebel Girls) and published in Italy by DeAgostini Kids.
There’s also an app that adds sounds and animations!
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Mural for a new kindergarten in Taormina, Sicily.
The idea of an orchestra of tigers had been floating in my mind for a while, and this kindergarten was the perfect opportunity to paint it out.
It’s my largest wall so far, roughly 40×4 meters (about 130×13 ft).
The seventeen instruments, left to right: accordion, saxophone, Italian bagpipe, sousaphone, harmonica, drum, trumpet, cymbals, triangle, guitar, piano, tracker, double bass, violin, flute, harp, didgeridoo.
A selection of children’s illustrations from my digital portfolio.
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Check out Dooper School, an animated training program for kids!
I directed and animated the teaser for Timbuktu Labs.
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After about 15 years I got back to painting on walls. Some of my spraycans were that old!
Thanks to Emergence Street Art Festival.
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This is the Making Of video for Oranguerrilla, my student film for the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. I really wanted to make this backstage video as it brings together the countless steps I went through to make my film.
Roughly, I spent 1600 hours of work on the project from concept art to the final edit, spread over two and a half years.
Direct link: YouTube
Italian version here: [italiano]
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Of course I did this on a hangover…
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Watch on: YouTube | Download: Ogg | WebM | MP4
Continue reading ▶ Gone with the spurt
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