I live in Italy.
I graduated at Liceo Artistico Statale in Verona (Italy) and I have been student of illustrator and painter Giorgio Scarato.
By working since 1988 as freelance illustrator for advertising and publishing, I mastered traditional painting techniques (pastels, inks, gouaches, acrilics, ecoline, watercolors, oils, airgraph, mixed media) and later also computer graphic.
Before starting computer graphic, I have been teaching illustration and graphic techniques in art schools.

In 2005 I won the Blender's Suzanne Awards for "Best Animation, original idea and story" with the animation "New Penguoen 2.38".
In 2006 I joined for the two last weeks of production the Orange Team in Amsterdam, to help in finalizing the shots of the first opensource cg animated short movie "Elephants Dream".
In 2007 I've been selected as Lead Artist to be in the team for the project "Peach", spending six months at the "Blender Institute" in Amsterdam to realize the second opensource cg animated short movie "Big Buck Bunny".

I'm a Blender certified trainer: Blender Foundation Trainer Certificate.

Since 2008 I collaborate with "Spark Digital Entertainment" in Rome.c Also, I collaborate with italian publishers, especially Mondadori Ragazzi as cover artist.
At the end of 2009 I've been contacted by CINECA to be the art director for the Blender related project Museo della Città di Bologna, work still in progress.

EXPOSITIONS:

• "Libri dall’iperspazio" (1993) - Biblioteca Nazionale Borgo San Lorenzo (Firenze - Italy)
• "Incontro Nazionale Illustratori e Scrittori del Fantastico" (1994) - Chiavari (Genova - Italy)
• "Fancon’94" - Courmayeur (Aosta - Italy)
• "Cavalieri della Fantasia" (1995-1996) - Lavagna (Genova - Italy)
• "8 artisti" (2002) - Cologna Veneta (Verona - Italy)
• "Le Immagini della Fantasia" (2006) - Sarmede (Treviso - Italy)
• "Le Immagini della Fantasia" (2007) - Galleria di Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti (Verona - Italy)

PRESENTATIONS and WORKSHOPS:

• "Introduzione a Blender", Facoltà di architettura - Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 2005
• "Linux Beach" in S. Benedetto del Tronto (Italy), 2006
• "Blender Conference – Penguins vs Dinosaurs!" in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2007
• "Sparkling Peach" in Rome (Italy), 2008
• "Athens Digital Week" in Athens (Greece), 2008
• "Blender Conference - The making of Big Buck Bunny" in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 2008
• "Future Film Festival" in Bologna (Italy), 2009
• "Cortoons – Blender e Open Peach Project" in Rome (Italy), 2009
• "View Conference 2009 – Blender Base: e adesso che l’ho aperto che faccio?", Torino (Italy), 2009
• "Scuola di Archeologia Virtuale", CNR–ITABC e Università di Padova, Monselice (Italy), 2010
• "Scuola Specialistica di Grafica Interattiva", CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna (Italy), 2010
• "Linux Day - Disegnare con the Gimp", in Aosta (Italy), 2011
• "View Conference 2011 - Producing a short film with computer graphics: a multidisciplinary
  all-Italian experience", Turin (Italy), 2011