Francesco Giannotta

The project that I'm most proud of is definitely the Live brief. We had to project an advert for Shelterbox, a charity that delivers shelters in zones where it's needed, with a target of children from 7 to 11 years old. I produced the project, and worked on it with a team of six talented people: Alex Bloxham ( http://bloxsdoodles.blogspot.co.uk/ ), Felix Flook ( http://felixflook.blogspot.co.uk/ ), Dan Fretwell, Stephan Georgiou ( https://stephantheportraitdrawer.blogspot.co.uk/ ), Ashley Gibbins ( http://animationash.blogspot.com/ ) and our director Jamie Gonzalez ( http://themarmaladeking.blogspot.co.uk/ ). It was exciting and we worked so well together I hope we'll have a chance to do it again at some point. We tried to make it so that kids all over the world could identify with our little character. So we made them blue. And without any gender connotation. And bald. We tried to keep the design as plain as possible, to make it both cartoony / good for comedy and t...

At the end of last year, I decided to specialize in design and pre-production. We did some writing / story workshops and we then had to pitch our story. After that, some stories got chosen to be developed, with storyboards, a script, artworks and concept designs to then make a production bible of a never-to-be-actually-animated project. The idea I pitched is about a skeleton that drives a train to hell and a hitchhiking goat that doesn't know where it's going. It's comedy gold, believe me. I forgot to mention, my project has to be inspired by George Grosz' work. Which is, as you might be able to tell, a pain in every aspect. So here's a painting I did for this project: And here's the finished test shot I did with my coursemate: Unfortunately, I lost my usb drive. So I'll post more work about this project later on.