LRNZ | Cover illustration for "Il Manga", Tunuè.

The illustration itself.


The line artwork.



Here are 2 initial sketches I made before heading to the final composition.


And here is the final thing with all of the text in place.

OCCULTATO NEL CONTADO

sketches for the grandpa in the wood, another TRAMA character, by Ratigher.

In TRAMA, a metà del libro, scopriamo una casa nascosta nel bosco; ci vive un anziano bislacco.

di seguito trovate i bozzetti del personaggio:

Alla fine è venuto fuori così:

GOLEM | ROSABELLA FILAGONE | BACK TO ANALOG

Some anticipations. Let me introduce you Rosabella.



It's been a while since I did my last analog penciling work, here is the original drawing I started from.

LRNZ | THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN

The Dark Side of the Sun is a film about children that have a very rare disease, XP.
In people with XP, sun causes skin cancer and other serious body damage even with very short exposure to it's UV rays.

Dan & Karen Mahar decided to make a dream come true and founded Camp Sundown, a very special place in the woods north of new york, where all the children with XP could play together in a UV free environment.



Carlo Hintermann (Citrullo International) went to Camp Sundown to shoot what it started as a plain documentary.
Things changed a lot :)

I was asked to try a completely different take on the narrative and develop an animated side story.
Now I'm so involved with this project I don't think I will find the time for anything else unless It's finished (march 2011, very optimistic).

The whole project will end in a 30/40 minutes 2K animated story, done in 2d traditional (but paperless) animation.
I'm now biulding a small and fast super hero team (4/5 people at the most) to help me with this ridiculous amount of work to do (8-12 fps hand drawn stuff!).

NHK, Japanese TV, is co-producing.
I'm VERY excited.

Here are the first studies, hope you'll like 'em!

Father Night:




Katie:


Hannah:


McKenzie:



Rachael:



Chris:



A first study of all the characters:


And a style/quality test render: