ExitBook_Riccardo_Riguzzi

RICCARDORIGUZZI

Story Artist & Director

E X I T B O O K

About meHello,

my name is Riccardo, nice to meet you!

What are you holding in your hands is a little book that shows what I have done since I moved

from Italy to England, three years ago, in order to study

Animation.

On the following pages you will find a selection

of the work experiences and the university projects I was (or still I am)

involved with and also some other, more personal,

information like my skills or my interests.

What you can read here, now, is what I am looking

forward to achieve in my future.

I want to tell stories using my drawings and

imagination.

I am a story artist and I want to draw storyboards,

have ideas for stories and, probably in a little bit

more distant future, become a director.

As you probably will notice, there is not a great collection

of pictures from my projects (you can see more of them

following the links written under the projects titles),

but, on the other hand, I hope you will find the short story I created on this exit book pages entertaining.

Unfortunately the space for the presentation is

finished, so I let you move to my other pages.

Work Experiences

XIST4 IT Recruitmenthttp://riccardoriguzzi.com/category/commission/

The client request was to create five short animated

2D films.

I have developed the stories and the characters

design. I also storyboarded the first short film

and composed it in After Effects. The animation was

done by a colleague of mine, also studying at UWE.

Aardman – Gulp!http://www.aardman.com/digital/on-the-set-of-

nokia-gulp/

During June 2011 I Worked as runner for the Nokia/

Aardman animation project GULP!.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieN2vhslTTU

Arthur Cox – Digital Color ArtistDuring my university second year I had the chance

(and the pleasure) to have a work experience at

“Arthur Cox” in Bristol to digitally color, in Flash, a

pilot for a TV series.

ProjectsConcerto (In development) http://riccardoriguzzi.com/category/Concerto/

Concerto is my final year graduation project. It

is a 2D digital cut out and Flash animated comic

short film written, storyboarded and directed by

me.

The story, in a nutshell, is about love, passion,

fame and nasty body noises.

The Sainthttp://thesaintproduction.tumblr.com/

First project I had the chance to pitch and to

direct with a team of my course mates. The

story has been developed by me, basing it

on an Italian folkloristic tale, as well as the

very first storyboard and the first characters

concepts. I composed the whole film in After

Effects (working with the 3D layers for the

“explosion of trees” sequence) and animated

the 2D cut out style opening.

Film:

http://vimeo.com/18688439

EDUCATION

University of the West of England (UWE) – Bristol (UK)BA in Animation.

ASF – Animation Sans Frontières – Ludwigsburg (DE) // Budapest (HU) // Viborg (DK) // Paris (FR)ASF is an european program aimed to show how animation is developing in Europe. Every year 16 students are selected (after a Europe open contest) and are able to attend four workshops in four of the most important euroepan animation schools.

Model Making for Stop-Motion Animation – UWE – Bristol (UK)

Storyboarding for Animation – UWE – Bristol (UK)

Università degli Studi di Bologna – DAMS (Departement of Arts, Music, Cinema and Television) – Bologna (IT)In Italy I obtained my first degree in Cinema Studies, with a thesis on the Post Modernity in Tex Avery Animation. Some of the subjects of this course were: Theory of Cinema Directing, History of Cinema, Cinema Aesthetics and Photography.

Istituto Salesiano B. V. S. Luca – Bologna (IT)Upper School Diploma in Graphic Design.

KNOWN SOFTWARE: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign (and Quark Xpress), Flash, After Effects, Premiere, StopMotion Pro, iStopMotion. Able to work on Mac OS and Windows.

LANGUAGES:English – Good level (IELTS 7.0/9.0)I am a native speaker of Italian.

Oh well, this is me (as much as I can be myself “squeezed” in eight A5 size pages),

thank you very much for your attention, and please, do not forget to take the

business card (or the satyr will get angry)!

Bye!

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