Calypso guy in Santa Monica.

I went to Santa Monica Last day, I sketched a bit and there was a guy playin' calypso, that carribbean music instrument that Sebastian (from the little Mermaid) play during his song "Under the Sea".-

I was thinkin' that maybe this guy can take part of a story.
A story where he hipnotizes with his music the clams of the Pacific Ocean, so the other fishes are angry with him.
I know it's a stupid idea but it can be a point to start :-)

here we go!

New Sketches :-) weeeuw!

Here's a little bit of sketches I did in starbucks in Pasadena (L.A.) :-)
The Waffle lady with the waffle face in the middle of the second page is my sister after a Day sunbatheing in Santa Monica with no cream in her face!

I'm posting this

Oh, I'm posting some sketches I did at the Farmer's Market in L.A.
I have other stuff but I am so busy, workin' at my Pavarotti storyboard. Is turning kind of good I can't wait to post the animatic guys!

Have a nice Sundayyy!

P.S. Tonight I'm going to eat Hamburger because it's Sunday Night = HamburgerNight!

Everyone is more than welcome to come with us!
We'll have a good guest this time: the great artist, Kevin Chen (and Rad is coming too)

The Surreal Brain drawn by Rad Sechrist!!!

Ehi Guys,
I can't believe it, this guy, Story Artist from Dreamworks, he worked on movies such as Megamind, Kung Fu Panda etc. so famous, so superCool his name Rad Sechrist , my friend, teacher I called him my tutor actually, brings me to Hollywood last Sat and made a comic about us and I am very mega AWESOME in that Story. Just go and ejoy him!

Just a bit :-)

Hello !
Just a quick Taste of what my story is gonnabe!

Hansel and Gretel Stuff

Hello everyone!
Today for my character Design class I did some Hansel and Gretel ruffed characters.
I did those almost 6 hours so please, accept that some pose or something look just weird :-)
I'll fix thoise problem when I'll chose my cast :-)
Now I have to rush 'cause I'm super late.- UHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Thanks to come here and watch my blog!

Fixed Pirates!

After Kevin Chen Feedbacks
I made some corrections on my old Pirates!

Crazy Stuff is goin' on :-)

So, for some reason I'm going to make a storyboard, it seems I have to.-
I'll let you know why later.. ;-)
But there's some boards I did to pitch the story
Soon I'll show you the work in progress ok?

Baci and Super thanks for watching!

Fra :-)

New Pirates!

Ehi Everyone!
Here's my new Pirates I did for the Kevin Chen -Character Design- Class.-
We had to make 4 Pirates from the inspiration of the ones we did last time.

As you can see I've put on the left upper side the first ruff I did of them.- It was on a post it, so as Kevin and every teacher told me, if it works small It'll work bigger!

Then I've just made that figures bigger to add details.

Here we go:

dialogue scene

Hi guys!

Here's an assignment I did at the concept design academy (storyboard Class with J. oliva)
I just used a track from grand Torino and I used Batman's characters.

The goal was to make a dialogue sequence with the cinematic theory.

Life Drawing!

Here's some of my life draw drawings I did at the 2 Kevin Chen Class :-)

Here we go!

Meet Tascapano Luigi

Here's my Character for the class I'm attending at the concept design academy :

this is a guy I know.-
I'll post more with him the next week!
For now.. Let's see who this guy is!

Pirates Heads from Pasadena

As I told you before,
while I'm doing my regoular job I'm also attending 5 classes at the Pasadena Concept Desgin Academy.
It is very hard because the level of every student is super High! I hope to be good enough to finish the school and to learn and become better.
Trust me guys, workin' and studyin' at the same time is hard, and now 'cause I have a lot of job to do, it's even harder than when I were in Vancouver attendin' a full time animation school.
But here in pasadena is gonnabe just for 3 months so... I mean. I hope I'll survive :-)

By the way.. Here the assignment we had to do for tonight' concept design class: Twenty pirates heads tryin' to find different shapes for the constructions.
I did this last night ,I am actually at starbucks right now uploading and downloading stuff and I didn't sleep, I'm super tireeed!
I decided to add some tone on those character even if they didn't ask for that 'cause I think it helps to read them better (and because I think it's also more elegant like that).-
OOOOOK! So, see ya and thanks for comin' here and see what's goin' on. Sorry if I wrote to much, I think my hands are just following the mood of the keyboard.
Ok
bye bye!
I'm going to sleep now. CIAO



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My Sketchbook TOUR shown in USA!!

Ciao Everyone!
I'm so onored to take part in this project from the art-house of Brooklyn!

I actually can't go now 'COz I'm very in Pasadena but, if someone can go wow, thank you very much!!!!






So here the 2011 tour DATES:

Feb 19-27, Brookly NY, Brooklyn Art Library

March 12, Austin TX, Austin Museum of Art

March 30 - April 2, Portland ME, Space Gallery

April 8-9, Atlanta GA, The Granite Room

April 11-30, Washington DC, Tranformer Gallery

June 10-12, Seattle WA, Form/Space Ateller

June 18, San Francisco CA, 111 Minna Gallery

July 14-17 Chicago IL, Hyde Park Arts Center

July 29-31 Winter Park FL, Full Sall University

SPOT CICRESPI - Ruffed Characters!

Ehi Guys and Gales,
here some of the characters I ruffed out before startin' the animation from the last post!
So if you see those drawings, you can see that a lot of the characters are with a different style.
I did that to see what client was lookin' for.- My first Idea was to do everything like the tiger number 5 :-D
Here in Pasdena everything is goin' good i've started today Analytical figure drawing with Kevin Chen and it was AMAZING!
Thank you for watching my blog, hope you like it!

CiaO!

SPOT Cicrespi!

I'm so happy to say that I did this video spot for Cicrespi.
Cicrespi is a place where they make everything, so many different things that it is difficult to explain that by writing it.
In this video (made in flash CS3) I tryed to explain what Cicrespi is and what they do.
No so much time for that, I did it while I was doing my books and other stuff I'm going to show you soon so I'm pretty satisfied.

Enjoy it!




I'm going to show you soon the character design sketches I did .-

Character Design Academy!

Maybe I have a lot of work.-
Maybe I should stop myself by goin' everywhere in the world 'cause I'm almost 30 years old and it'd be time to make a family.-
Maybe
Maybe
Maybe and even maybe.


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But when I was in school 1 year ago, I understood that we're never done. We find everytime something to learn.- We need to learn and learn and learn.- Walt Disney was the same. My teachers too.So, why not me?

I found a school in Pasadena called Character Design Academy, so cool, so good.-
I'm going to study Storyboarding, Character Design and I'm going to follow some Analytical Figure Drawing Course.-

Everything with amazing teachers directly from Feature Studios like Disney, Dreamworks, Blue Sky.

Maybe this is gonnabe my last adventure so far from Italy.-
Maybe not.
What I'm sure, is that I'm going to feel this like my first experience in my life, I'm so happy about that! And, maybe, I'll show the exercises in this blog, 'cause I mean.. Why not?

So keep follow me!

I'm going to flight to L.A. this Tuesday.- I'm little bit nervous 'cause I've never been there and I even don't know where I'm going to sleep but.- I really love that! I'm going to make my character stronger and I'm going to improve so much.. I'm so happy about that! I'm going to meet so many people.. WOOOOOOOOOW!

I can't wait!

YEPPAAAA!

SEE yà ladies and gentleman and thank you for watchin' my blog!

MORE SKETCHES!!

I'm coloring a new Tea Stilton Book and preparing everything (VISA, FLIGHT, APPLICATION FORMS etc.) for my next trip to Los Angeles (THIS IS MY DREAM is COMIN' TRUE).- I'm Preparing the lecture for my next Class at the school of comics Milano.
I'm also workin' for a Disney Comic Story (starring ehy ehy hey "Donald Duck").-
One day Walt Disney said to keep ourselves busy and I'm trying to follow his tips but.. It's hard sometimes!!!!
I'm BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY SUPER MEGA ULTRA BUSY.-

BUT: I DO LOVE MY JOB!!!!!!!!! WOWWW! So I don't care if I'm tired!

So, I finally sent the Moleskine to the ART HOUSE of Broadway for a gallery they're gonna do.-

here, more drawings!

Thanks for follow my blog, I love you really much! ANd thanks for the kind words you write me everytime!

Yeppi deeeeee

CIAO!

New Sketches for my Molskine Gallery.-

HELLOOOO!
Happy new Year to all of the people in here!

So.-
I went to Madonna di Campiglio to snoaw Boarding And I finished my Moleskine Sketchbook Project!

HEre some of what I did!

THank you for watching it!

CIAOOOOO

Naked Snow White

Hello Everyone!
Thank you to follow my blog,
I can't believe how many people you are, and I really wannasay, thank you!!!!

Today I did this Snow White thing 'cause IN the sketchoholic website they are going to interview "mr. J.Scott Campbell" and he himself choose for the contest the topic "sexy fairy tale".-
So, I did this. I did the dwarfs like that 'cause I wanted to make them non alive. so like that they seem -collage- or samething like that.-

I hope you like it,
CIao ciao
Fra :-)