Accomplishments

Over twelve years of computer graphic design, animation, modeling and setup in publishing, advertising, entertainment, design and broadcasting. Also provided professional training in high-end animation software to inhouse computer graphics artists in Germany, Italy and at DIGITAL DOMAIN. Assisted in character animation pipeline and standards for character animation for broadcast commercial and movie features at Digital Domain, Venice, California. Academy award winner for special effects for the movie, "Titanic" while working computer graphic at Digital Domain. Received the J.R. Tolkien award for a painting at age 17.

EMPLOYMENT

2007 – Present
Freelance - Beau Studios, 20Twenty VFX, Moving Pixels

2005-2007
RADIUM, INC SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
CG Supervisor

2004-2005
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Giant Killer Robots
Digital Set Extensions and Sequence Supervisor (35 Shots)
Torch Chase Sequence Previs Supervisor (45 shots) Fantastic Four feature film

2004
THE ORPHANAGE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
CG Supervisor (28 shots) Day After Tomorrow

2003
DIGITAL DOMAIN VENICE, CALIFORNIA
Character Setup and Character Animator for Crocodile hero character (60 shots)
PETER PAN feature film

CINESITE HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
Character Setup Supervisor
X-MEN2 (feature film, Nightcrawler’s tail character setup, all shots)
IN LAWS (feature, Digital Double of Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks for stunt sequence)
FREDDY vs. JASON (feature, freddy krueger/caterpillar hero character setup supervision)

2002
DIGITAL DOMAIN VENICE, CALIFORNIA
Character Animation Supervisor
ADIDAS "More Power To You" commercials

DIGITAL KITCHEN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Mocap and Character Setup Supervisor
ORBITZ "Matrix and Hotel" commercial

2001-2002
Writer, Director, Producer, Art Director, Animation Supervisor, CG supervisor:
THE COIN (animated short feature)

SIMPLE PICTURES ROME, ITALY
Character Animation Supervisor
FORMICHE Ants characters (commercial spot)

1999
DIGITAL RENAISSANCE OBERHAUSEN, GERMANY
as a consultant for DIGITAL DOMAIN: Character modeling and setup Supervisor
LITTLE VAMPIRES bat character (movie feature)

1996-2000
DIGITAL DOMAIN VENICE, CALIFORNIA
Character Animation Pipeline, Setup, Modeling and setup Supervisor
THE GRINCH (also Research & Development Supervisor)
BATS trailer;
LAKE PLACID (movie feature);
COKE JITTERBUG(commercial)
JEEP ZEBRA (commercial)
THE HUNTER (music video for pop singer Bjork)

Digital artist and Lead Modeler/Character set-up
TITANIC (Academy Award winner for special effects 1997) movie feature include:
modeling and Inverse Kinematic character set-up for all the sinking sequences
animation contributions, pre-composites and lead compositing

As a Digital Artist:
ROLLING STONES ”Anyone has seen my baby” music video
COKE HUMPTY DUMPTY(commercial)
CAPRI SUN(commercial)
HALLMARK (commercial)

1996
STARDUST ENTERTAINMENT MUNICH & BERLIN
Art direction, design, character setup, production pipeline for 3D animated series
“Blue Eyes Superstar”,“Stevie Stardust”

Trained in-house artists in advanced software techniques ROME, ITALY
Softimage 3D and Alias Power Animator

1995
SIS ROME, ITALY
Freelance Computer Graphic Artist
Collaborated in architectural videos for the company

1994
EPICA (Rome) and HYPERTOONS (Hanover)
Worked in various freelance collaborations with computer graphic animation studios

1991-1993
THE IMAGE FACTORY VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Co-founder - computer animation studio
As art director, storyboarder and animator, completed assignments for Saatchi and Saatchi, DMB&B, GGK and other agencies.
Also wrote, produced and directed "Chrome and Coffee", a short video for ImageFactory, combining computer animation and live action

1991
SZADEZCKY-STEINFL/NOFRONTIERE VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Employed at Szadezcky-Steinfl / Nofrontiere in Vienna as Illustrator, storyboarder, production designer and computer graphic designer.
Storyboarding videos and other productions of Szadeczky+Steinfl/Nofrontiere
Illustration assignments for Swatch telephone, Unilever, SMH and others

1991
THUNDESIGN MILAN, ITALY
Interior design and visualizing for the OMEGA CORPORATION (PARIS & HONG KONG)

1989-1991
VARIOUS DESIGN STUDIOS ROME, MILAN AND VIENNA
Freelance Illustrator and Visualizer Artist

1988-1989
MONDADORI (one of the biggest European magazine publishers) MILAN
Cover artist Illustrator for Espansione, a business national monthly magazine

MACCANN ERICKSON, G&Z, STUDIO PIU', MONTEDISON, RCS RIZZOLI ROME
Freelance illustrator and visualizer for various advertising agencies

1985
Storyboards and production design for the following movies: ROME
“The Brother from the Space", "Yeti" and "DOMINO" with Brigitte Nielsen

1984
EMILIO LARI - Set-photographer gaffer ROME

COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROFICIENCY OS / SOFTWARE

• Macintosh OS 10+ years general experience
• IRIX OS
  Good knowledge of general hardware, OS administration and maintenance of login set-ups for inhouse software
• IPLI compositing software
• Co-designer of the in-house composting and imaging software used by Image Factory
• Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Painter
• Macintosh graphics software – Excellent knowledge (10+ years experience in production)
• Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Shake Macintosh video graphics software – Excellent knowledge
• Alias PowerAnimator 3.1 > 8.5
• SILICON GRAPHICS 3D software Excellent knowledge (7+ years of experience in production and advanced training)
• Softimage 3D 2.66 > 3.8 (4+ years of experience in production and advanced training) Excellent knowledge
• Softimage Eddie 3.1 > 3.2 (6+ months of experience in production and advanced training)
• Elastic Reality (6+ months of experience in production)
• Wavefront Kinemation and Dynamation General knowledge
• Alias, Softimage, Mental Ray & RenderMan Rendering (Shading language & RIB/script editing, SDL scripting)
• MAYA v. 1.0 > 5.0 Excellent Knowledge; Excellent Knowledge of MEL scripting V1.0 Beta tester for 6 months (3 years of experience in production and advanced training); In house trainer at Digital Domain for version 1.0; Artist point person at Digital Domain for AW
• Discreet Logic Flint ( 3 months of experience in production, 1996)
• Silicon Graphics Environment 7+ years general experience

EDUCATION

1983-1986 EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF DESIGN ILLUSTRATION ROME, ITALY
1979-1983 V LICEO ARTISTICO (ART HIGH SCHOOL) ROME, ITALY