I was born in Palermo, Italy, in 1962. Besides a brief period in Friuli (Pontebba, near Udine), it is since I was six - seven years old that I live in Verona (do you know it? The town of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet).
  As far as I can remember, I've always been drawing, expecially animals and dinosaurs!
  I graduated at Liceo Artistico Statale in Verona and, later on, I have been student of Giorgio Scarato (I still now keep on learning from the master).
  By working since 1988 as a freelance illustrator for advertising and publishing I mastered traditional painting techniques as pastels, inks, gouaches, acrilics, ecoline, watercolors, oils, airgraph, mixed media.

  In advertising I collaborated with BCF Studio for Nord Bitumi, Conforti, Ovomattino and many others customers.
  From 1996 to 1998 I realized many "Looney Tunes - Warner Bros." posters, illustrations serigraphed on fabric by Heart Rock (flags).
  In 1998 I started to work for publishing, making illustrated children's books for Casa Editrice Demetra, Giunti Edizioni and Gribaudo. In 2006 I started to collaborate with Mondadori as cover artist for fantasy and science - fiction books.

A pdf of my publishing works can be downloaded here
(only italian language, sorry).

  I have been teaching illustration and graphic techniques at the "Centro Studi Andrea Palladio" graphic institute, at "Scuola di fumetto La Galerìe", at C. F. P. Istituto Canossiano in Verona and at Centro Servizi Formativi Istituto Antonio Provolo in Bovolone (Verona - Italy).
  I wrote several tutorials about the opensource software Blender, available on my site. In 2003 the american "Renderosity Magazine" published in issue number 5 a tutorial of mine about the making of the computer graphic image "Bongo".
  With Blender and The Gimp, in collaboration with Image Development Studio in Milano (Italy), I realized a fly - around presentation for ENIGroup and the introducing animation for the concert "CampoVolo" 2005 in Reggio Emilia (Italy) for the italian singer Luciano Ligabue.

  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 two last weeks of production the Orange Team in Amsterdam, to help in finalizing the shots of the cg animated short movie "Elephants Dream".

  High quality prints of my artworks can be found at Polygfx.com and at Zazzle.com.

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 d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti (Verona - Italy)