Experience

• character designer, cover artist, models supervisor at Walt Disney Italia

  Milano, Italy

  January 2006 - January 2019

  as a freelance, I collaborated in the cartoon of several movie-adaptation graphic novels, crated characters for existing series, made 2d turnarounds for maquettes.
  
  Author of the style and characters for STAR WARS movie adaptation line of books for young readers.
  
  Character designer for the Pirates of the Caribbeans graphic novels and magazine.

• character designer at Marathon Media Group

  Milano, Italy

  January 2004 - December 2010

  creature designer for the productions of:
  
  Gormiti, the lord of nature return!
  
  Martin Mystery II
  
  Redekai
  
  worked with directors Steph Berry and Greg Panaccione

• Character Designer, Art Director, Concept Artist, Mecha Designer at MONDO TV

  Milan, Italy

  January 2004 - January 2014

  During my period of collaboration with MondoTV I worked on various tv series and tv-movies, covering several roles, but substantially always giving ideas and creating new solutions for moods, characters, props, fx, actions. I almost always worked in my studio but constantly in touch with the production, strongly interacting with directors and foreign teams.

• Character designer , Art Director at CartoonOne/Smartbrands

  Milano , Roma, Shanghai, Italy

  January 2006 - January 2008

  During this period , I worked on TV series and Pilots, as character designer. also was Art Director of preproduction for the "Teen Days" TV series, working together with Director Maurizio Nichetti.
  
  I worked in Shanghai at Agogo Studio for CartoonOne. (Lampaclima production). I was hired as Animation Supervisor, but, due to production delay, animation was late and I was able to take on also the role of Layout Director&Supervisor.

• 2d Animator, 2d assistant animator, 2d model maker at GreenMovie Group

  Milano, Italy

  January 2001 - December 2001

  for the theatrical movie: "JOHAN PADAN a la descoverta de le Americhe "- I started as model artist through an external studio (Nightflight studio), then worked as freelance Assistant Animator and eventually been hired to be Assistant animator, Animator, and makeover animator of external foreign service studios (also made some tutorials for them).
  
  in the team there were a lot of talents , such as Mario Addis (animator, author, filmmaker, director), Marco Regina (now 3d animator in dreamwork), Federico Ferrari (2d animator in Disney Australia), Gregory Panaccione (storyboard artist, director, comics author), Adelchi Galloni (incredible illustrator and background artist) and many others, it’s been an incredible and useful experience.
  

• Character Designer/2d model maker/Animator/layout artist at DeMas&partners

  Milano, Italy

  January 2000 - January 2003

  I worked as character designer on “Coccobill” (series 52x13’, 2nd season) , as model maker for the project “piccolo Gesù”(little Jesus) from Claudio Sciarrone’s original drawings , and acquired experience as animator and layout artist on some trailers.

• Character designer/2d model maker/layout artist/storyboard clean-up artist at The Animation Band

  Milan, Italy

  January 1997 - January 2006

  The first studio I worked for, under director Giuseppe Maurizio Laganà. there I learned the basis of the animation world. I worked on series like “Lupo Alberto” , “Corto Maltese”, “Sandokan”(II and III seas.), “la Stefy" (educationals by Grazia Nidasio), “Tommy&Oscar”, “Farhat”, and other animation services (Rainbow, Kinder/Ferrero,MondoTV) , trailers and short films.