BALLE – 3d animation

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

Around the World – Fortunato Depero

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.

Falesie

I realized this video as a digital presentation for a book of photos, Falesie,  published by Bruno Manunza. The book shows views of Sadinia’s costline, capturing very fascinating landscapes, but I was asked to create a video that went in the opposite direction: so all about the distruction of the seaside operated by the men, showing just from time to time the autors photos as a reminder of “what we have”.

The idea I had about how to connect so many picture about such a subject ( which is also deeply rooted in Sardinians thinking) was to “observe” them as if we were a kind of alien/digital “thing” that explores our world through the picture he collected.

Copyright notice: all pictures and music are not mine.

Music: Robbie Williams – Beyond the sea  / Wayne Newton – Danke Schoen  / Dave Brubeck – Jimgle Bells / CHRISTMAS Eurythmics, Winter Wonderland, 3.35 annie lennox – A Very Special Christmas 1, 02,