Projects where I own
the entire chain.
Modeling, texturing, lighting, compositing and render · no step handed off to another department.
Butterflies Ache
A plaster body dissolving into a swarm of night moths. A study in the tension between fragility and transformation · desaturated palette, cold light, one gold accent.
Kinder Garden · "It Was You"
Directed by Roberto Pioli, for the music project Kinder Garden by Francesco Menna. A science fiction music video where a person's past, present and future meet, perhaps for the last time. Featured on Beyond the Short · my first real step inside the music scene I want to keep building in.
Hidden Village · Environment Study
A real time environment study in Unreal Engine 5, HDRI and volumetrics. Concept art reference by Benoit Fleury · this is my read of the scene, not the original environment.
A few immersive days at Take 2 Studios in Salzburg, on the invitation of Rodrigo De Deus, alongside an international team of virtual production specialists. The studio's LED volume runs on ROE Visual panels, the kind of setup used across product, architecture and vehicle visualization, wherever a reflection on a surface has to hold up in camera rather than in post. Working there with ASSIMILATE's live grading tools, I saw how color is graded directly onto the LED wall in real time, HDRI lit and matched to the physical set, while Unreal Engine drives the background the camera actually sees. I spent the days comparing notes with digital artist Marco Mittendorfer, the studio's virtual production lead Felix Brandstetter, and DP Jako on the camera side. Everyone there was exceptional, and I came back with a much sharper sense of how real time rendering, materials, HDRI lighting and photorealistic surfaces have to hold together when the camera, not just the render, is the final judge.
