I AM READY, PITCHES

Ayyyy here is my showreel i presented the third years on my second year here in falmouth university. i wish i added more drawings, but i lost half of them with my hard-drive and i wanted to sync the actual video with the music. I like the general groovy effect, so whatever, i am satisfied with it :)

Ident Copper for Cake

Oh yea

if being a director wasn't enough



we had to make an Ident for a theoretical "mazed" channel in after effect. I have no clue how to use the program, but i bet and it looks very intriguing. I managed to make something simple reusing my animation and Midnight Sparkle's blinking copper, mostly because I was tired ( i am being honest here, cmon) and pretty nervous: using programs that crash every 5 minutes tends to drive me crazy.

Anyway the teacher said it was ok, but still, she said i could have done better.

True that, miss.

Copper for Cake

copper for cake, an animation we did for the Mazed project. Here you can see the unfinished project i put together  after the deadline.




As a project, we were divided into groups each of us had a particular task.
I was the director, but i ended up, as often happen in real animation studios (i suppose), helping in character design, animation and editing.

here you can see my first attempt for Character design: simple characters, not too friendly but cute, funny shapes and not too stereotypical.

Sam, the main character, in the first script was supposed to lose his instruments and become a farmer, but we decided with the blessing of the customer, to change the ending by smashing him. This is why i tried not too  make the viewer relate too much with him, making him grumpy looking and kind of stupid.

The knockers are based on goblins, pixies and cave creatures: their colors are the same as the environment that surrounds them and their eyes are copper-like

Here are the final versions, after we all discussed the changes

with the characters set, i managed to finish properly the storyboard, that i had to change various time to make the animation clearer to the animators and for explaining the story better to the customer and the teacher.

Here you can see the very fist one

And here is the last one (which is the definitive version)

After helping with the storyboard, i had to fix a couple of background, because they were made with actual paint. I imported them in Photoshop to crop them and define better the edges, but some of them had to be completely redone.

original drawings by Emmett Norris, these are the ones i had to fix

One of the backgrounds i had to re do because of the wrong composition

Before animating, i managed to make a couple of still for the video, so that Midnight Sparkle could add some cool effects on After effects.

The stills

I am sorry i couldn't upload either the final version (i don't have it) or the single scenes where i worked, but i can tell that i worked along with Dan and Clara in the scenes where
_sam walks outside before flashback

_sam coughs before seeing copper

_sam taunts knockers and shrugs shoulders

_sam is hit by small rock and then huge one

_hat bouncing

_knockers at the end

The experience was definitely interesting but i definitely do not feel like we were ready to take over such a huge project in just three months: we had neither the necessary practice, skills, knowledge and resources to do a great job, but still, we managed to pull out a decent piece of animation, in my opinion. 

Sad is the relationship i had with some members of the group that hardly did anything. I probably should have helped more in doing the job when they were trying instead of doing it myself, but with little time (and energies) i really couldn't do much. 

It was a pain for me to try to put everything together all the time, especially when we found out in the day of the deadline, that our video was low quality and half corrupted. I spent 12 hours fixing all the files while everybody else were partying and enjoying life.

God

the pain...

Pirate adventure WITH SOUNDS YAAAAAARH

Remember the storyboard of the Zoo Troop and the Lost treasure? This is the animated version, the animatic: the voices behind it are mine for the captain and of my brother for the first mate. Italian pirates aren't exactly the best rogues ever...but they did the trick. Most of the sounds come from freesound.org while the song is Yo Ho yo Ho the pirate life is for me! and i don't own the rights ALSO i don't own my own soul.my life is spiraling into a pit of despair. I have no hope and i eat chocolate peanuts all day long :)

Wish i added more animations thou

Giacomo Jack Ghigo showreel fall 2013

It all comes to this, my final showreel for Falmouth university Animation and visual effect course.
It includes both 2d and 3d assignments, and i got to say I am quite satisfied with most of them yet as i stated a thousand times already, i feel like i am can still improve a lot.

Music is Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert, i do not own the rights for this song.

Enjoy