Get Your Animation Face Ready, Florence!

Bruno Bozzetto and I will be in Florence next Saturday (May 16th, 2015, Cinema Odeon), on invitation of the phenomenal Nemo Academy. Alright, this is what this event will be all about: Bruno Bozzetto - and I'll have the smashing pleasure to host this very show. But please be warned about my looks, in order to avoid asking Bruno too many silly fan-boy questions (my own) I'll wear an anti-fan-boy-questions-motor-hat (FB3000) during the whole show.

Bruno Bozzetto and me, sort of.

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Meet The Masters Workshop, Oct 18th, 2014

At Accademia Nemo's invitation I'll will return to Florence for a workshop @ Cinema Astra 2, next week. I'm so much looking forward to it: MEET THE MASTERS
(street view image © Google Maps)

Nemoland 2014: Snapshots

Tom Bancroft and I after the Nemoland awards ceremony, Cinema Odeon, Florence. In the background Stefano Casini and Francesco Mariotti. (photos: Laura)

Nemoland

I'll be at the Nemoland Festival in Florence, next week. I'm really looking forward to meeting up with the lovely Nemo people, Tom Bancroft and Isao Takahata.

Spider Man's Drawing Request And A Look Back On Nemoland 2009

Today, I do a double-post or a two parts entry of sorts.

Part one: Fellow colleague and good friend Francisco Herrera (Spider Man, Superman) asked me do a very own pin-up drawing on one of his characters for his next book. And here's the fruit, the ACME Wondermotorbra 3000D-T (coming with a built-in tea cooking feature):

I really do like space around the characters, much space. The original background I painted was that size:

The roughs, finally:

Part two: A look back on Nemoland 2009 in pictures

This is the Nemoland Award 2009 statue I got from the Accedemia Nemo, wonderfully rendered by the fabulous Paolo Chiari:

Fellow animator and comic artist Flaviano Armentaro and me in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Sala Luca Giordano. Fab' place, absolutely. This was, btw, the very place where they gave me the dragon statue:

Nemoland family portrait 2009. From right: Super duper director and animator Alex Orrelle (Finding Nemo, Incredibles), me, Sire Giuliano Cenci (Grisu, Calimero), Paolo Chiari (master of trolls and dwarfs) and Luca Chiarotti (Accademia Nemo).

Photos: Maryam Laura Moazedi

Some pics from the exhibition in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina will follow. I'm still stunned by the appeal and the impact of this very spot. It was indeed a magic place to let my ducks 'n' critters out...

Genio Fiorentino: Nemoland Event/Workshops

This is a quick info update to whom it interests: I will give workshops at the Instituto d'arte di Porta Romana and Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence within the scope of The Genio Fiorentino 2009, starting with May 20 till May 23, 2009.

Besides the workshops, there will also be an exhibition of my designs (over more than 150 rough pieces, finished works etc.) in the Gipsoteca Fiorentina at the Instituto Statale d'Arte di Firenze, from May 20 till June 6, 2009. Title: "Of Critters, Ducks And Dragons"

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

May 20-21: workshop - room “Aula Magna” at the “Instituto d’arte di Porta Romana”
May 22-23: workshop - room “Sala Bruno Giordano” at “Palazzo Medici Riccardi”

Photo: Wikimedia Commons