Some info about My Life

I was born in 1973 at Santa Margherita Ligure (Genoa) Italy, from my first part of life, the attraction for movie and Sci-Fi arguments influenced my choise and my life.
I start to learn how to build Special Make-up after see Wolfman, an old Universal movie, where Lon Chaney played the role of monster, i start with simple material and learn how to sculpt, model and work material like clay, fiberglass, latex, foam latex, and more, during this period i start to study electronics, to build animatronics controlled by servomotors and remote control, my target was to work in the SFX.

I did some short movie with my friends, and for this movie i did SFX, director and editor.

After a long sperimentation i saw first sample of cgi animation on amiga computer and i saw the future of SFX. the digital revolution. I was start with sculpt 4d, but fast i change to Real 3D and finally with LightWave3D 3.5, where i could see the real 3d modelling and animation.
Thanks to Lightwave3D i start to produce my first 3d animation and i collaborate with many magazine to wrote articles, tutorial and more.

I Worked and collaborated with different Italian Magazine :

• Computer Gazette (CGI and DV magazine, i produce monthly tutorial and articles on LightWave3D, Real 3D, Interview and more)
• Applicando (Italian Apple computer user magazine, some tutorial)
• Pc Upgrade (Some articles about 3D with Inspire3D)
• MilleCanali (Italian Broadcast Video Magazine, some review)
• Computer Art (Italian edition, review)

I collaborate with different Society to produce animation and CGI stuff for:

• Roche (animation and graphics for many istructional video)
• Bayer (animation and graphics for many istructional video)
• Bracco (animation and graphics for many istructional video)
• Pharmacia (animation and graphics for many istructional video)
• Ted Bates (animation for istructional video)
• Alcatel (animation for demo video)
• Michelin (animation and graphics for internal video for conference)
• Canale 5 (National channel, intro animation for a movie show)
• Epson Italia (technical service, demo artist during most important show room)
• Europen Community (many kind of training course about web design, office automation, Access developing, Visual Basic developing, graphic course on Photoshop and Flash).
• I did a technical support, demo artist, LightWave3D trainer for Italian NewTek product distributor.
• Moschino perfume Animation (Animation for internal presentation of new fragrance Cheap and Chic I Love Love)
  I did it when i was in KMA Communication

My Skill :

• developing in html, access, visual basic, Lscript and some grasp of C
• Optimum knowledge of 3D modelling, texturing, animation with LightWave3D, Zbrush, Cinema4D.
• Good knowledge of Nurbs modeling with Solid Thinking (i was beta tester of ST for many years when it was under Unix and during developing of Windows version)
• Good knowledge of Nurbs modeling with Rhino3D
• Very Good Knowledge of Composing and Post Processing with Adobe After Effects and Discreet Combustion
• Very Good Knowledge of Paint and retouching with Photoshop, Photopaint and NewTek Aura.
• Editing and sound elaboration with different software, or with analogic instruments.
• LightWave3D trainer (i have over 1700 hours of experience like Lw Trainer).
• I'm good traditional modeler with clay, plastiline, and other material.
• i'm good molder and special prostetic creator for Special FX
• I like play with airbrush to paint any kind of surface