Dark Souls reunion

Drawing i did for my brother in two months. He erased it once and made me lose my marbles...still love him.
Took me ages to try and make the characters similar to the ones of the videogame, Dark Souls by From Software, but luckily enough, my brother wanted them cartonized.
It is not very professional, but oh well...

Never again

Dark Souls reunion

But seriously, i love dark souls...the character design is so obscure, realistic and elaborated at the same time...a real source of inspiration for every character designer

Behind you, ash demon

I was supposed to do a drawing for my brother, but i got so tired and angry for losing all the datas (for his fault) that i had to start something else. This was a pain...seriously...there are so many mistakes in this one that i wasn't sure to put it on my blog. The illumination is wrong and the characters aren't that great, but i really like the concept of the ash demon...couldn't get the background right and that column and rock...ngggg...the beast wasn't even supposed to come from lava...but well...as long as it is done...

As you probably noticed i tend to use often the shot that involves a monster (big or bad one) as the main focus and other characters (the heroes or victims maybe?) as background fillings.

Latest work:
Behind you, Ash Demon...

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

Zoo Troop and the Lost treasure storyboard

Oh my god...so many bad memories about this storyboard. Everybody were having a good time, waiting for Christmas and sharing happy memories...i wasn't

My father booked my plane one day before the actual date, so i has two days less than the others, and i had to pull three all nighters in a row. I literally died (metaphorically) on the train for 8 hours:

Ok well it was fun to draw but i wish I had more time to dedicate to the small details, maybe adding more frames...still i had enough to put them in the animatic. 

God i hate drawing ships.

Zoo Troop and the Lost treasure storyboard (done the 5 December 2013)

Horsing around

This was an experiment. First .GIF ever done on Photoshop.
It is exactly what it looks like.
Pure
Party
Rocking

The power of animation at its finest

Horsing around (uploaded the 7 January 2014)

The goat and the koala

While everyone was working on the "Deep" storyboard i was gazing upon them, filled with that feeling of accomplishment and proudness...what to do while everybody were losing their minds? Animating of course! Luckily for me i had an audio file that involved me and my fellow companion animator Kanye West  Katie Wyman talking about an average night in Falmouth, involving alcohol, beans and crumpets. I animated it, Rob Owen fixed the audio and Katie was harassing some elders. 

Life is good. 

This is a case were it wasn't.

The Goat and the Koala made on flash, quick and easy, not fully animated. Follow your dreams