Experience

• Lead Character Artist at Criterion Games

  Guildford, United Kingdom

  July 2022 - Present

  - Need For Speed: Unbound

• Principal / Lead Character Artist at Cloud Imperium Games

  Wilmslow, United Kingdom

  January 2020 - April 2022

  I keep dealing with my character art task while I follow and train my team members of the CIG UK team for the projects:
  
  - Star Citizen
  
  - Squadron 42

  As a Lead, my roles involve:
  
  - interview and reviews applicants for any character art role (in UK branch)
  
  - train the team, overview and approve their tasks (right now the whole induction and training time is happening in remote, due the Covid pandemic)
  
  - handling outsourcing tasks, review and approve their work, plus giving feedback or support them with documentation about our own workflow
  
  - supporting my team and check on anything they may need or may prevent them from living happily their daily life at work
  
  - constantly being in touch with the LA team, art director, producer, and the concept department to always be updated about the scheduling, deliveries, objectives, and keep track of everything needed to well organize work for me and my team and release pressure from their shoulders in any way I can.
  
  - I'm also involved in the development over some specific pipeline together with the tech team and the graphic department.
  
  This involves:
  
  1) skin and texture shading
  
  2) hairs grooming
  
  3) head scan creation, finalization, and integration into our system.

• Senior Character Artist at Foundry 42

  Wilmslow, United Kingdom

  February 2016 - January 2020

  Creating characters and costumes, models, textures and shaders, for this amazing title.
  
  Quality is insane, and I look forward to see it released.

  Game:

  - Star Citizen
  
  - Squadron 42

• Modelling TD and blendshape artist at MPC

  London, United Kingdom

  February 2014 - February 2016

  Sculpting, modelling, texturing, Blendshapes.

  Filmography:

  - Jungle Book (2016)
  
  - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
  
  - Terminator Genisys (2015)
  
  - Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2015)
  
  - X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
  
  - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
  
  - Ghostbusters (2016)
  
  - Goosebumps (2015)
  
  - Suicide Squad (2016)
  
  - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
  
  - Spectre (2015)
  
  - Fantastic 4 (2015)
  
  - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)

  Pitches, previs and projects I minorily worked onto:

  - The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
  
  - A Monster Calls (2016)
  
  - Dumbo (2019) - pitch
  
  - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among thieves (2023) - pitch
  
  - Alien: Covenant (2017) - previs

• Environment Artist at Electronic Arts (EA) - Ghost UK

  Guildford, United Kingdom

  October 2013 - January 2014

  - AAA game title, not yet announced. (PS3, 360, PC, PS4, Xbox One)
  
  - Need For Speed: Rivals

• Environment Artist at Criterion Games

  Guildford, United Kingdom

  January 2013 - October 2013

  environment artist, asset builder and texture artist for the AAA videogame title:

  - Need for Speed: Rivals. (PS3, 360, PC, PS4, Xbox One)

• 3d modeler and texture artist at TXP - Trixter Productions GmbH & Co. KG

  Munich

  November 2012 - December 2012

  freelancing experience as Environment creation for a TV Commercial

• Previs Artist, Asset Builder at The Third Floor, Inc.

  London, United Kingdom

  April 2012 - November 2012

  I create characters, environments and vehicles assets for movies.
  
  Filmography:

  - Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  
  - Maleficent (2014)
  
  - Thor: The Dark World (2013) - Marvel Studios

• Character Designer, Storyboard artist, 3D Modeler at Direct 2 Brain

  Rome, Italy

  September 2010 - December 2011

  Working to Direct 2 Brain I've just had occasion to be involved on a big amount of different project.
  
  Usually I realize both storyboard and 3d Models with UV and textures, organic or not.
  
  My last character, developed for them, was the main character of an horror italian movie:

  - The Haunting of Helena (2012).

• 3d modeler and texture artist at VISION DIGITAL s.r.l.

  Rome, Italy

  March 2010 - September 2010

  I created several architectural 3d models of the King Abdulaziz International Airport

• 3d modeler and texture artist at Vision S.R.L

  Rome, Italy

  August 2007 - October 2009

  This was my first job in the cinema's industry.
  
  I'm pretty nostalgic of this first experience. The studio was small but the team was great and my professional experience, amazing!
  
  At the end of this experience I had done a little bit of everything, from 3D to compositing.

  Filmography:

  - One Life, Maybe Two (2010)
  
  - The Double Hour (2009)
  
  - Ce n'è per tutti (2009)
  
  - Asylum (2008)
  
  - Lecture 21 (2008)
  
  - Sorry, If I Love You (2008)
  
  - Il Divo (2008)

• Clean up artist and key interpotator at Silvano Mezzatesta’s animation office

  Rome, Italy

  March 2003 - January 2004

  This was my first experience into animation 2D.
  
  I have interpolated and clean-upped 2d cartoons for Melevisione and other clients, like "Hokus and Lotus". I fully interpolated and clean-upped the emergency cartoon video for "Lauda Air", who were intended to be put onboard.