So Fancy! Pre-Production

In those days I've been heavily working on some pre-production stuff for an upcoming group project at my University. I called it "So Fancy": it's the story of a young girl that goes into a boutique to buy a pretty dress... but in the end things don't exactly go as you might expect. Here's is the animatic and some rough concepts:

I presented "So Fancy" at the idea pitch and it got chosen! That means I get to direct a group of 6 people including myself and we're getting the chance to make "So Fancy" a full-fledged, one-minute animation. I'm so excited that I already started to fantasize about the praise of animation festivals all around the world.

Annecy 2011

What a great week! Me, Simone and Tuomo decided to follow our guts and drill trough the English Channel and France (I will have nightmares about rush hour trains for a while now) to get to Annecy Animation Festival - One of the biggest festivals in the world.

The whole experience was just amazing - 3 days of pure animation and brilliant crativity floating trough every hole. I've got the chance to meet artists from Disney, Dreamworks, and Pixar (including Enrico Casarosa which screened the latest, unseed Pixar Short, La Luna, AAAAHHH) and dammit, I can tell you that's some effective way to get motivated.

Can you find Wald... erm, I mean, Leon?

Also, I got drenched the most in my life after rain caught me (and other 1000 people) under the Tour Eiffel, but that's a secondary detail.

Meet the Hoverbob

Summer is starting, exams are over and this means that animators can come to contact with this rare specimen called "free time" once again. Grabbing the chance to work on some personal stuff... this little guy down here, for example, is my frst proper rigging experiment. Controls are simple, but they get the work done. Incredible how only one eye is capable of so much expression...