Matteo Berra's website

My friend Matteo Berra, sculptor and photographer has a new website.
Above is a picture from Almost Alive, a series of mesmerising, fascinating photographs Matteo is shooting in all the major natural history museums around the world.
And here is Milano, a reproduction of the Milan's map made with wood scrap and saw dust, part of a series of installations and sculptures focused on the city subject.

Movember

Hello,

A bit late, I'm doing Movember and I opened an account...

Movember link

Please donate something! It's for a noble cause: to help raise awareness and funds for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer.

Cheers

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Cardiff girl

A girl from Cardiff waiting to be seated in a Pizzeria, and her friend.

Jubilee line

A commuter reading on the tube.

MPC Film Reel

Have a look at the new MPC film reel here!
It also contains a shot that I animated for Night at the Museum 2. It's a very short one but very crowded! There is a pterodactyl, a skeleton sabretooth tiger, 5 kangaroos, a baby giraffe and a hippo, all running (or flying).
Click on the image to view the shot.

Willesden

Willesden, London.

A girl

From the 98.

Life Drawing in MPC

Another one from the MPC life drawing class, this time with a male model: very interesting anatomy and a good actor as well.

1.3 Million Time Voyagers with Maya

An article from the Autodesk website on Time Voyagers, one of the last projects I worked on in Italy, before moving to London.

Link

Life drawing class

From a life drawing session in MPC.

The hottest time of the day

Baffo found a cool place to doze.
It happened in San Benedetto Po, last week.

Il ritorno

Dormendo sul treno,
come qualche mese fa.

Karin

Karin.

Evian, Skating Babies

Evian Skating Babies is the last project I worked on in the MPC commercial department, before moving back to film.
We were 4 animators led by VFX supervisor Dean Robinson.
We used keyframe animation, especially for the hero babies and motion capture as well.

Have a look!

Skating Babies, MPC website

These are the shots I animated:

Bus stop

Close to Kensal Rise.

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Tim.

From the bus, Edgware Road

Edgware Road drawn from the bus 98.

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Jordi in a daily session.
Pen.

From The bus

Willesden Lane drawn the bus.
Markers on sketchbook.

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Florent.
Markers

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Marco and Xesco from Crowds.
Markers

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Peter.
Staedtler pigment liner 0.3

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Peter, Peta and Cathrine at their desk.
Markers.

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Gang at work.
Markers

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Captain Somu.
Markers.

Colleagues

My colleague Marco, dealing with some crowds probably...

San Diego Zoo

In the last two months I've been working in the MPC commercial department.
This is the last project I did, for San Diego Zoo:

http://www.moving-picture.com/index.php/component/content/article/35/608.html

I animated the whole "Kitty" commercial while my friend Jordi Onate animated "Mudbath".


Credits:

Director: Ruairi Robinson
Agency: M&C Saatchi LA
Production Company: Alturas Films
Sound: Lime Studios
Post Production Company: MPC
Post Production Producer: Josh King and Andrew Bell
VFX Supervisor: Jake Mengers
3D VFX: Nicolas Bernard, Andrew Brooks, Kelly Bruce, Ahmed Gharraph, Andreas Graichen, Alan McCabe, Jordi Onate, Emanuele Pavarotti, Simon Payne, Ian Wilson
2D VFX: Stephen Newbold, Kelly Bruce
Telecine: George K and Mark Gethin