Captain, Captain to the Bridge!

Dialog exercise in handmade classic animation style. If I go back to Italy I will buy an animation desk and I will set up my own pencil test room, 'cause that helps me so much to grow up.-

Thanks a lot to Tristan Jensen who made the voice of Rory the Racoon and to Adam L'Heureux who was the amazing Elephant :-) I hope we'll make something more interesting and longer.. Like a short or something like that.- They're studying Acting in Vanarts and they're getting better and better, one day (not so far) they're going to be famous which is cool I think :-)

Thank you so much guys!

www.fattidichina.it

Ehi Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'm proud to say that me and my storywriter are in the italian WebMAgazine called FATTIDICHINA with our little lovely Joe Sullivan and his High Kitchen Gang! We're not just inside... We're as a cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOWOWOWOOWOWWOWOWWWWWW! I could cry! And we have also lots of news about High Kitchen so... Stay Tuned!

CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The AMazing Elephant

Ehi guys,
This is not a normal elephant:

This is the AMazing ELephant!

Me "like" made from other artist

SO.-

First thing to say:

because there are a lot of pirates out there, that like to copy from some other artist and bla bla bla.. This is not something like that. I made these drawings on purpose because that was one of the assignment we did at school. I'm publishing these drawings just for fun, is myself drawn by myself trying to explore different styles from other artist.- I added their logos to show which style I chosed and that's it.-

It was difficult to draw myself as a Lion, I put that rabbit in front of him because the others have a t-shirt with a rabbit. part of the mane became the hoody.- The mignola' style I choosed was very interesting and I think that work better in black and white, but doesn't match with the other without colours so here is it.-

Do this exercise is very helpfull to see how other artist solve problems and why something is appealing or not.- Thanks to Clint that gave me this wonderful exercise.-

Mascottes for friends

Hello to everyone!!!

I'm very very busy these days because I'm working on a short movie as our last Assignment in Vanarts.-

So I'd like to post things that I did before, actually I don't know when, I think like 2 years ago or maybe before.. THere's something that I still like in those drawings, maybe the proportions or maybe I don't know what.. But.. I did it for my friends, for their ORhestra, soccer team, club, whatever.. But I hope that you like it!


I love you very much!

CIaoOo

From ALberto Canepa's Idea, I just made the character , I hope to work with him again!


Another work for my friend ALberto Canepa :-)


My friend " Omino" asked me this



One of my best friend Fabio, asked me a mascotte for his soccer team




This was for my cousin and his Orchestra

24 hours

In my little town, Luino, every year there a big event called 24 ore di BAsket (or something like that) where lot of crazy people like to attend.- It is a contest where you have to play basketball for 24 hours, whithout stopping it.- Actually what I said is not correct but that's the basic Idea. Now: I have a friend who is one of the organizator. He asked me last year to make this illustration for a flyer. Ok.- This is what I did, you can also see some ruf drawings where I started from.-

CIuaO and sleep good!



so, this is the final version of the ill:



this was a little comic strip on the back:



Here some sketches for the characters:




Ruff drawings I used before the clean up:

Warming UP

Sometimes it is very difficult to get ready to start- Sometimes I need to do this for half an hour.- Then coffee. Then again.-

I said sometimes.

SOmetimes I don't need coffee.-

Tigre contro Tigre

Tigre contro tigre is a famous italian tongue-twister.. The meaning is Tiger versus tiger and that's why I gave this title to those sketches.- A friend of mine asked me to make a tiger for her and so I started to make some ruff .-

Have a ROoooOOOOaRRRy week!

CIaoooo

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: