This post is related to Animation course by Nicolò Ceccarelli and Andrea Brogi at Architecture University in Alghero.

During the last accademic term we approched 3d modelling with maya for the first time and each student was requested to present a personal model of an exsisting object with renders.

I chose to model an old corkscrew since I was very attracted by the particular mechanism, different from more common corkscrewes.

I started from schetcking the object to understand it better, than I moved to maya, combining polygons and nurbs modellation.

A crucial part of the process was the shading and the lighting, since the object it self was quite simple, aiming at highlight the object as much as possible.

Here you can see some render of the object in a peculiar context.

And some more graphic/cartoonlike renders…

This post is related to Animation course by Nicolò Ceccarelli and Andrea Brogi at Architecture University in Alghero. The project has been developed together with Federica Carta, Francesco Fogu and Luna Gasparini.

During the last four month of this accademic year we worked on 3d animations with professors Nicolò Ceccarelli and Andrea Brogi.

Me and my group worked on a simple but funny story that had the aim of answering a critique question: what happens to a ball once it falls in the hole?

We started with the storyboard to get a clear idea of how the story should developed; we focused on the most interesting and chatching parts eliminating other extras.

Then we proceded to the aniamtic in with we started placing the cameras and moving the “characters” and setting up the music.

Here below you can see the final animatic.

To realise the video we used Maya 2009, After Effect, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Personally i cared mostly about the animations, the editing and a little bit of lighting in the pinball scene.

DISCLAIMER: The musics are not ours: Buonasera – Fred Buscaglione;  Sing Sing Sign – Benny Goodman; 1,2,3, go! – dj rave vs dj traxx

I realized this video as a multimedial features of a stage performance of the theater company “La corte dei Miracoli“. The performance included lectures of futuristic plays by different authors and the prizegiving to winning competitors in a poetical competition about futurism.

The concept behind the video come to me while watching the  video of the popular dance song “Around the World” by Daft Punk. I thought that combining the paintings and advertisements by futuristc artist Fortunato Depero with this song could be a effective and nice way to explain a little bit of the artist to today people rather that making a boring video with pictures fading staticly into one another.

The video has been projected during the performance on the 18th of June 2009 in the Teatro Civico in Sassari.

Disclaimer: obviously neither the music (Daft Punk) nor the pictures (Fortunato Depero) are mine.

This post is related to Interaction Design – Interface with a View course by Yaniv Steiner at Architecture University in Alghero. The project has been developed together with Barbara Carcangiu.

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This post is related to Interaction Design – Interface with a View course by Yaniv Steiner at Architecture University in Alghero. The project has been developed together with Barbara Carcangiu.

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Starting from four mini iPhone applications developed by our teacher Yaniv Steiner as code trials, we focused on one of these with the intent of adding content and graphics to it.

Me and my colleague Barbara Carcangiu chose to work on the “Magic Card” application, but instead of performing a magical trick, we thought about using it to trick friends.

The flow of our application has now become something like this.

When the iPhone is still on a surface it displays a fake screen image. When it senses a vibration (either somebody touched the surface, or picked it up) it starts to display, frame after frame, a crashing interface, like a virus has crashed the system.