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Pizza Hut - I stuffed crust

Black Kite Studios (London) Matte Painting - 3 timelapse versions


O2 - We're better, connected

MPC Advertising / Mill (London) Matte Painting


Money Supermarket - Money Calm Bull

Untold Studios (London) Concept / Matte Painting


Abarth - Let's Play Again

MPC Advertising (London) Look development - Matte Painting


Pokerstars - Epic Downtime

Black Kite Studios (London) Matte Painting


Qatar Airways - Newest destination

MPC Advertising (London) Concept / Matte Painting


John Lewis & Partners + Waitrose & Partners - Excitable Edgar

Untold Studios (London) Matte Painting


The Crown (S3/E3) - Opening shot

Untold Studios (London) Matte Painting extension behind 3d rooftops


Land Rover - New Defender

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


BMW - Brand Film

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Heineken - The Chase

MPC Advertising (London) Look development - Matte Painting




Nescafe' Gold Blend - Dinosaur

MPC Advertising (London) Look development / Concept Art - Matte Painting


Bacardi - Winter Summerland

MPC Advertising - Mill (London) Matte Painting


British Army - Your Army Needs You

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


BMW - The first ever BMW X7

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Milka - Lilaberg Launch Films

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Marks & Spencer - Christmas Must Have

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


ASDA - Best Christmas Ever

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Old London moods

Personal work inspired by Mary Poppins' old school matte paintings. Concept Art - Matte Painting




Will - TV Series

Dneg TV (London) Matte Painting


Harlots - TV Series

Dneg TV (London) Matte Painting


The lost future

Personal work Concept Art - Matte Painting


Marks & Spencer - Christmas is better with Magic & Sparkle

MPC Advertising (London) Look development - Matte Painting


Electric Dreams - TV Series

Dneg TV (London) Matte Painting


Around the war... - Concepts / Matte Paintings

Personal work - Look development / Concept Art Some concepts representing various environments during the WW2, mainly the Italian countrysides. With no action in the scenes, I focused the attention on the sense of calm of those places in contrast with the horror and barbarism that they have hosted. Between those mountains, in a countryside apparently quiet and untouched, the Partisans used to hide and organize the resistance against the fascist regime and the nazi occupation, often helped by the courageous peasants. Many small villages have been destroyed by bombs of Nazi air raids.


Emirates Airlines - Bringing rugby home

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Ford Mustang

MPC Advertising (London) Look development / Concept Art


Ernst & Young - Legacy

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Romanticism moods and colors

Personal works Concept Art - Matte Painting I always thought there is a close connection between the Romanticism and the modern matte painting and concept art. The exaltation of the infinite, the search for the sublime and mysterious, as well as the exploration of feelings and sensations related to the landscape, are themes we always can find in the cinematic art too, where the landscape of the plate (sometimes just a green screen) is completely reinterpreted in order to be more harmonious and stunning, often accentuating the depth and the effect of infinite.


Sea Castle

Personal work - Concept Art


Hooten and the Lady - TV Series

Dneg TV (London) Look development - Matte Painting


DHL - Planet Earth

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


MY ISLANDS

Personal work Concept Art - Matte Painting


Voke - The Meeting

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting


Paris moods concepts

MPC Advertising (London) Look development / Concept Art for an unreleased project


Tecate - La cancha de Noé

MPC Advertising (London) Matte Painting - Texturing paintover


Cold Wasteland - Color/Atmosphere Moods

Personal work Look development / Concept Art


New York suburb

A very old personal matte painting


Lost soul

A very old personal matte painting


Venezia - Cartoon Short film

"Venezia" is a cartoon teaser set in Venice realized as thesis project during the master in CG at BigRock School. I managed all the environment designs and set extensions. I consider this project as a second important piece of my Matte Painting Journey.
Link to the video


AXIS - Realtà nella finzione - Shortfilm

Here the very beginning of my Matte Painting journey. Axis is my graduate thesis at University, a fantasy short film set in my homeland, the island of La Maddalena in Sardinia imagined and represented after a tsunami and many years with no human civilization anymore, inspired by the film I'm Legend. More than considering this as a piece of my portfolio, I wanted to mention this work as a piece of my Story, for the sentimental value that it represents as the starting point of my professional path. A special thanks to Santo Acciaro for his help and for having followed me during the shootings and the various production stages, fundamental for the success of the project, and to my family for the support and for having always believed in me in all these years.
Link to the video
Some making of


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