Danubio Blu

A little Flash video I did just for fun in very little time. It should be better but.. At least is better than a kick in your ass :-)

Rory and the Amazing Elephant

Hello everyone!
a Crazy little story is coming soon.-
Is about Rory, a little Racoon who was trying to steal a crystall ball from a circus when the Amazing Elephant stopped that crime.- Bla bla bla bla when they discover that that Crystall Ball is a stargate for another world.-

Ok ok.- I?m a little bit confuse, I need to put everything on focus.. For now I made ROry's model sheets.

Have an Happy new year guyz!

CiaOooo

Flash lip sync, Old South Italian Woman

So, ladies and Gentlemen,
today I'm going to post one of the most weird things I've seen in my life:
An Old Woman from south of Italy.-

I'm half from south of Italy actually and I love them, so, don't think that I am racist :-) Have fun!

Saludos!

Weird Dream

We are the guy with the tie.
The Duck is our dream. She's bringing us up.
The ground is what people thinks about us: BLA BLA BLA.
The Sky is the sky.
The direction is our destiny.

SO: We're walking on people opinions about us, thanks to our dreams.


People opinion kills our own dreams sometime. I think we should listen to them but never leave the connection with our dreams!



This where I'm starting, there's lots of better way to make it better, this was the first visualization, of corse I'm going to work on that.-

Run number 2 - That's a very hungry one.-

Hamburger!
This is probably the right way to lose weight.-

So, starting from the character structure I used for the old run I did, I made this in flash, just to have more fun!

Ok, Run a part, it was a lot of pain fixing the string but at the end I was pretty happy :-)

Charicatures

Good something to everyone!
I've found this charicatures I made for a contest years ago:

It's crazy that in Italy everything is already the same, the only things that changed is that everyone is older.-
Please, someone with talent save Italy from thosw clowns!


Emilio Fede, the Berlusconi's handyman-carpet:



Romano Prodi and Umberto Bossi.- Romano Prodi is not like before, but if we think about his as a line-up, ok, it is exactly as before.-

Stop motion DIalog - Chihuahua Hates Paris Hilton

Ciao!!!!
Today I'm posting a little video I did in stop motion class.- The voice is from my friend Rory.- I'm sorry for the colume, I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.-
I made a chihuahua and because the voice is very calm I make him smoking.-

I hope you like it,
Stay tune!



Here a little photo to see the entire background (ahahah):

Run assignment number 1 - Waky waky

Hello Everyone!

TOday I'm posting the first run assignment I did in Vanarts: starting from the character that they gave me, I did this run (mybe it is a little bit exagerated but I wanted to try what I can do with flash, how much I can Push.- Makin' flash Cartoons doesn't mean making limited quality, that's why I'm trying to see how far we can go, during something like that.


This is the character:



This is my first Run:

High Kitchen

Like every single year Christmas comes veeeeery fast!

So, Joe Sullivan and Sam Padella asked me to make a video of them. Ok! The videos is posted in their comic strip- blog.-

Here you can also find the sketches I started with and the background I made for :-)

To do eveything I've spent 3 night, I hope you enjoy it.-
So... Happy Xmas to everyone and thanks to Paul that gave me his voice for Santa and Tommaso (the writer of High Kitchen) was the voice of Sam Padella!

I'm pretty excited because this afternoon I'm going to be at the theatre to watch "the Princess and the Frog".- I'm waiting for this movie from last February.- I do love Disney!





FIrst I made this ruff:



Then I made the Background with Photoshop:



After that I put everything in different layers and I started on Flash to make symbols.- then I took of the ruff layer.-

Body language dialog

CIao to everyone!
Today I'm posting the first dialog assignment we did at VAnarts, this was about body language, that's why the character has that empty face.-

Proportions

Hello Guys! Today I'm going to show you an assignment I did at Vanarts about Characters Basic Proportions:

there are three kinds of body types; ectomorph, mesomorph, and endomorph:

Some characters, like Olive Oil from popeye, are born to be thin. These delicately built individuals are ectomorphs.

Others are destined to be athletic, like Disney's characters Aladdin or Hercules.They are mesomorphs.

Then there are the endomorphs, characters like Peg Leg Pete or Baloo , who sport softer, rounder bodies and have difficulty losing weight.

To do this assignment I decided to make three puppeteers and play with them and their puppets:

The Goatfather

I love the Goadfather movies, expecially the first one with Marlon Brando.
When we went to the farmyard I thought: goat! goat.. goat... Goatfather! I wannamake something like that, it sounds funny!
So I made it.- I started making some ruff of Marlon Brando then I tried to make him as a goat. I also made a thumbnail for the composition.
I made some Goat sketches to make the characters more believable. Here the final drawing and some of the studies I did.-

My friend Tommaso make me the Logo(thank you Tom).-

Goats are such a funny characters and who knows? Probably me and my storywriter are going to start a project with about that :-)

Have a nice week guiS! Stay tuned

A Colorful Panda.-

Once upon a time,
the storywriter I usually work with, Tommaso Valsecchi, came with the idea of a Panda sad because of his lack of colors.
I'm so glad that he actually sold this story and I'm waiting for his book (illustrated by a guy that I don't know) coming in 2010.-

Inspired from that story, I made these pictures with my favourite tecnique: collage.- maybe collage is not cool anymore (at least for Italian publishing houses) but I think that is very good to improve color skills and semplification.-

Here some examples of what I did (some time ago):

A colorfull Panda (2)

a colorfull Panda (3)

A Bear in Gastown

I went to Gastown last summer and there was a man makin' charicatures.- He gave the inspiration for this:



Below some ruff studies I did from the Vancouver Zoo:

Animal Sketches at the Vancouver Zoo

What can you do when you go to the zoo and it is a wonderful sunny day? SKETCHES! eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh! I love to sketch! And here we go, a bounch of animals.- Actually I was a little bit scared of the hyppos, someone (Celarent) told me they are very dangerous if you invade their territor.-

Bouncing Ball with tail

Hello ladies and gentlemen!
I've started to study flash at Vanarts a couple of weeks ago and the first exercise was the bouncing ball with a tail.- Firstly I made this assignment drawing everything in the classical way, frame by frame but then I've realized that "Hey! This ball reminds me an head from france revolution! Why don't make this animation more interesting? So I did this video! Is very short so if you have 10 seconds, turn on your speakers and watch it! Every comment is more than welcome!



P.S. This is the BG in a better resolution!

Rory is Walking in a cycle

I made this character called Rory for some animation exercises... What's better than a walk to test it? I've taken the BG music from the Slapsus (from Zelig, an Italian TV SHOW).-

A Surreal Brain

Ok,
I finally made an image for my blog! I hope you like it, this situation usually happen to me everyday, o my god, we don't have enough time to make every idea comes in pur mind.- uff.- that sucks.- Ciao :-)

COLLAGE, is my favourite medium!

As you can see in lot of my drawings, I had lot of influence by collage. It takes a little bit more time but it is perfect to understand colors, silouettes and to find new ways of semplification.- Here in Vancouver, because I don't have enough time and an appropriate space, I can't do anything with this wonderful technique.- For now, I only can show something I made 4 years ago :-) CIAO

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Hydrant Allergy

A stop motion clip I did for fun to see how a take works in stop motion



And these are some photos, so you can see how I made it

Little Red Riding Hood.- Marker, photoshop and Mouse for the background.-

Hi guyz! I made this 2 years ago as an experiment for myself.-

Studiies of Sturducks