Astrosaurs

In 2006 I started to work as book cover illustrator for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. As first job, I had to make the covers for italian translations of "Astrosaurs" by Steve Cole.

Astrosaurs

On the left, Captain Teggs in "Riddle of the raptors"; on the right, the evil oviraptors of "The hatching horror".

The publisher asked me to make them in cg; the books would had retain the original inside drawings, so I had to keep the characters's features and their colors just the same as in the original illustrations by Charlie Fowkes, keeping their toonish style but giving them a 3d look (Fowkes's original covers here).
Modelled, textured, rigged and rendered by layers in Blender and then composed in Gimp.

Covers for "The seas of doom" and "The mind-swap menace".