Better pictures soon!
A quick look to Golem Angoulême limited variant jacket.
Better pictures soon!
Better pictures soon!
Golem, my first solo comic book, was presented in it's all new french edition by Glenat during the 43rd Angouleme Festival.
Glenat wanted to celebrate in a very special way, doing a super limited Angouleme edition for the book, that sports an Angouleme only jacket.
The main drawing is an oil painting on paper that I retouched digitally, and integrated with vector graphics.
You can find the original drawings in the gallery below.
After a couple of years, "The Nostalgist" goes free streaming online, hosted by WIRED VIDEOS.
You can watch it here: http://video.wired.com/watch/the-nostalgist-a-short-film-by-giacomo-cimini
My contribute to this incredible effort by a marvelous crew and their visionary director was the creation of some visual assets in the concept art field: I mainly designed the little robot and visualized the militiamen. Did the movie poster and logo too. It was great taking part to this journey, seeing what a passionate bunch of great people can do. Hope you'll like it!
From "The Nostalgist" Wiki Page:
The Nostalgist is a 2014 science fiction short film, written and directed by Giacomo Cimini, based on the short story The Nostalgist by Daniel H. Wilson.It was produced by Giacomo Cimini, Tommaso Colognese and Pietro Greppi for Wonder Room Productions. It stars Lambert Wilson as the father and Samuel Joslin as the son. The short film was filmed in London and explores the themes of loss, nostalgia and robotics. It is noted for its performances and visual effects.
The short film was partially financed through a Kickstarter campaign.
The short film premièred Jun 19, 2014 at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and went on to participate in the Fantastic Fest 2014, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2015 and the Cleveland Film Festival 2014.
It later had a limited release in the United States and Russia.
It also premièred as video on demand on the We Are Colony on-line platform in October 2014.
The short film was included in the short film programme Cult of the BFI London Film Festival 2014.
In 2014 it won the Méliès d’Argent, the Audience Awards at Trieste Science+Fiction and Utopiales, as well as Best Short Film at the Giffoni Film Festival 2014.
The short film was selected for the Short Takes section of the December 2014 issue of the American Cinematographer.
Awards:
2nd place Best Short Film over 15 minutes - Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2014.
Best Short Film (Generator +18) - Giffoni Film Festival 2014.
Prix du Publique - Utopiales, Festival International de Science Fiction 2014.
Méliès d’Argent and Audience Award - Trieste Science + Fiction Festival.
Best Sci-Fi Short film - 28th Leeds International Film Festival.
Best Professional Short Film over 10 minutes - Raw Science Film Festival.
"Io da Roma proprio non riesco a separarmi.
I motivi sono tanti, è chiaro, ma ce n’è uno in particolare che è senza dubbio il più forte.
Non credo esista un posto con un’intensità artistica maggiore di Roma, nel mondo, e l’idea, per quanto assurda, di provare ad avere una risposta da una città severa come Roma al mio amore sfrenato è forse il giogo più stretto che mi ci tiene attaccato. Quando ti capita l’occasione di disegnare sulle strade della città con un manifesto di un evento importante come ARF! (che oltretutto la incarna quella antica forza visionaria), è uno di quei rari momenti in cui Roma abbozza di nascosto una risposta al tuo messaggio d’amore.
Il mio manifesto per ARF! è, prima ancora che un ennesimo atto d’amore per questa città, uno di quei rarissimi, preziosissimi, atti di amore che la città mi concede."
This is from a post I made on social networks when the poster was revealed: long story short: it's a HUGE honour to have been chosen to illustrate the official poster image for ARF! Festival 2016.
ARF! Festival is a young yet amazing event, reuniting immense talent in a three days love trip for comic enthusiasts or simply people that want to plunge deep into the excellence of sequential narrative or even to just have a first contact with this mesmerizing art form.
Moreover this year event will take place at MACRO TESTACCIO, a beautiful museum obtained from an old slaughterhouse in the center of Rome and one of the most important exhibition spaces in the capital.
Extras!
Some behind the scenes/process!
I started with some rough concept ideas, and drafted out some value sketches.
Then, once the main subject was selected by the ARF! crew I started working thru all the different stages: black ink lineart, watercolour and pencil shading, digital coloring, graphic design mock up. The on paper part of the drawing is quite big: it's watercolour, pencil and ink on an A2 Fabriano Artistico hotpressed satin watercolour paper.
And this is the final piece with the graphic design provided by Fabrizio Verrocchi and Paolo Campana.
Thanks to everybody at ARF!
Ibrido analogico digitale. (Black indian ink / Ultrachrome Print on Hanemuhle rag paper)
Digital/Analog hybrid. (Black indian ink / Ultrachrome Print on Hanemuhle rag paper)
Pubblicato nella raccolta "VINAVYL":
VINAVYL. Omaggio grafosintetico a Stefano Tamburini Pubblicazione realizzata dall'Associazione culturale MUSCLES per i suoi soci 2016. info: undermuscles@gmail.com
U.S. edition of Golem will be distributed in a special limited version for the Kinokuniya bookstores network only.
Kinokuniya is the largest bookstore chain in Japan, with 56 shops around the country, in cities such as Osaka, Kyoto and Sapporo. Overall, it has more than 80 stores in Japan and overseas (Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates).
I love Japanese art. I love japanese art books, A LOT.
Everytime I have a reasonable amount of free time (20 days is a minimum) I fly to Japan to enjoy all of it's artistic beauties. And as an artist myself, I can't avoid being sucked in those mesmerizing bookstores Japan has to offer.
My home bookshelf is half japan, half rest of the world.
I spent most of my "japanese" time in bookstores, Kynokuniya stores are among those sacred art shrines. They always felt like a forbidden, unattainable stage for my artwork. I thoroughly searched the Shinjuku stores, book by book, to learn as much as I could from the masters, young and old, that Japan has to offer to the world's visual culture.
So, all of a sudden, knowing that my book will be in the same Kinokuniya stores I so much enjoyed really is a dream that comes true. It's unbelievable: I feel so honoured and lucky to have been chosen for this collaboration between Magnetic Press and Kinokuniya Books I will be always grateful for this amazing gift: It's a milestone in my artistic career and my life.
It means a lot to me.
All the details about this Magnetic Press/Kinokuniya collaboration can be found here, in this Publishers Weekly article.
Gabriele Mainetti is a director and producer from Rome, owner of GOON Films.
"Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot" his first feature movie, is out now as I write (february 25th), so he needed a logo animation for his own production company.
He called me to take care of it and so this little piece of animation was born.
The topic, "GOON", was somehow very weird.
1.
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
2.Slang.
a stupid, foolish, or awkward person.
a roughneck.
Goon is a negative term, no doubt about it.
Driven by an idea of violence, stupidity.
Goons are outcasts, violent people.
Movies, however, tell us people's stories, their lives and the reasons behind their personalities.
A story that shows us what brought a man to a blatantly wrong choice rather than a right one It's more interesting for sure, because we firmly think we would never act like him in the first place.
Good movies allow us to see people's soul, they take us away from places where we feel at home, confident.
Good movies show us that people who initially look weird to us are often beautiful, unique people.
Weird people can be dreamers that went too far for our idea of being "good".
I tried, as I have been requested to do, to exalt, or to contradict by contrast, metaphorize, coddle this apparently two-dimensional word.
Behind a weird guy or a "bad" choice doesn't necessarily hide bad story.
As an extra: I didn't go straight for the final version.
I usually start with three different takes on the same thread when a client asks me to develop a corporate ID.
I love to give them the widest spectrum of choice, with VERY different takes.
I developed a STRAIGHT, a HUMOROUS and a OXYMORONIC proposals.
So, I started with a self explanatory, straight version.
A bad on bad take.
The knuckle duster proposal.
Then I went for a more funny, cute one.
The "ugly hero" take.
Then the final one, where GOON word is juxtaposed in the sequence after a young boy spotting us in the dark:
Is he an outcast?
Is he a survivor?
Is he protecting his people or is he all alone?
Is he a scavenger or is he out for a great adventure?
Is it the future or is it the past?
What's the story behind this young boy looking at us?
CREDITS:
The GOON: Stefano Calcaterra
Music: Gabriele Mainetti
Photography: Andrea Camandona
Studio: Talent's
Sound FX: Mirko Perri
Mixing and delivery: In House post Roma
I guess it's ok
Distant Future is an artist collective focused on exploiting the power of narrative and escapism, beyond any specific genre, medium or technique. Currently spread across Europe (Italy, Switzerland, UK, Sweden), Distant Future members collaborate using different artistic languages to pursue their collective goal.
EXTRA: a selection of discarded Distant Future logos with a Nostromo spaceship display look. Thanks to ISOCORE for the CRT shoot and for the incredible sound piece.
http://www.magnetic-press.com/golem/
Thanks to Magnetic Press, Golem will have it's printed USA release on february 23rd.
Golem got some asskicking endorsements by huge names in the industry:
Jonathan Hickman
(East of West, Marvel's Secret Wars, The Manhattan Projects)
“It’s not the story, or the art, or the even the design that makes GOLEM a great book. It’s the union of those things – the whole. LRNZ has crafted a perfect package of pure entertainment.”
Brenden Fletcher
(Batgirl, Black Canary, Gotham Academy, Assassin’s Creed)
“GOLEM is a truly breathtaking work of unrivalled imagination and dark beauty. LRNZ is the future of comics.”
Nick Dragotta:
(East of West, X-Statix, Superman: American Alien)
“Lrnz on Golem is a revelation. It’s an incredibly crafted comic, drawing upon all the best comics has to offer, and Lrnz’s imagination makes it uniquely its own.”
After a first digital release on Comixology (it's split in episodes, still ongoing - check it out at: https://www.comixology.com/Golem-1/digital-comic/317111) Golem finally has a beautiful USA edition: a little smaller than the italian and french one, packs all of the goods in a badass thicker cover jacket.
The U.S. edition features an advanced reading guide with some hints about Golem mithology and symbols: very useful if you want to challenge yourself in a more accurate decryption of the book's ultimate hidden meaning.
A signature edition will be available with a special Eurasian approval card.
Magnetic Press did print some fancy promotional posters too!
Coooool!
After a first digital release on Comixology (it's split in episodes, still ongoing - check it out at: https://www.comixology.com/Golem-1/digital-comic/317111) Golem finally has a beautiful USA edition: a little smaller than the italian and french one, packs all of the goods in a badass thicker cover jacket.
The U.S. edition features an advanced reading guide with some hints about Golem mithology and symbols: very useful if you want to challenge yourself in a more accurate decryption of the book's ultimate hidden meaning.
A signature edition will be available with a special Eurasian approval card.
Magnetic Press did print some fancy promotional posters too!
Coooool!
Thanks to Julien Brugeas and Gallerie Glénat, I had the chance and immense honour to partecipate to the OTOMO TRIBUTE Exhibition in Angouleme, during the 43rd Bande Dessinee International Festival. My entry is a cel painted A3 drawing and is available to buy at Galerie Glénat Paris.
Moreover, an excellent exhibition catalogue has been made by Glénat, sporting a cover art illustration by Otomo sensei himself. As a huge extra to this beautiful experience: I had the chance to meet Otomo in person and It's been probably one of the most intense moments of my whole life.
The artist roster for the exhibition includes: Virginie Augustin, Bannister, Dominique Bertail, Matthieu Bonhomme, Aleksi Briclot, Francesco Cattani, Merwan Chabane, Olivier Coipel, Luigi Critone, Simone D’Armini, Ludovic Debeurme, Benoît Feroumont, Manuele Fior, Juan Gimenez, Joël Jurion, Jean-Philippe Kalonji, Viktor Kalvachev, Nicolas Keramidas, Kim Jung Gi, Olivier Ledroit, Stéphane Levallois, Li-An, Liberatore, Julien Loïs, Vincent Mallié, Dilraj Mann, Stan Manoukian, Thierry Martin, Laureline Mattiussi, Hugues Micol, Timothée Montaigne, Nicolas Némiri, Vincent Perriot, Gloria Pizzilli, Victor Santos, Stan Sakaï, Otto Schmidt, Guillaume Singelin, Jirô Taniguchi, Lucio Villani & Vince.
Huge thanks to Alessio Tommasetti and Paolo Maddaleni for the technical infos on how to actually paint a cel!
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Someday I'll do a full length project drawn like this.
Today I'll be at the 43rd Festival de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême.
It's my first time in Angoulême. Moreover I'll be at Glénat Comics booth presenting my first french comic book, Golem!
I did a small limited variant cover to celebrate this special moment, and I'll be very happy to draw a little sketch on your copy and sign it.
The new cover is a digital/traditional hybrid, with an oil painting mixed with vector graphics.
Here you can read my dedicace schedule:
http://www.glenatcomics.com/festival-angouleme-2016-les-auteurs-invites
On friday I'll probably show up at Galerie Glénat to have a look to the Otomo tribute exhibition where I have a small illustration on display.
See you in Angoulême!
http://www.glenatbd.com/bd/golem-9782344012062.htm
Golem, my first solo comic book, is out in France, published by Glénat comics.
It's doing very well in Italy, and this is the first printed translation available overseas: Magnetic Press already published Golem in the US but it's only digital (comixology) as for now.
The edition is beautiful, incredibly similar to the italian one.
The ending note by Adriano Ercolani was also kept intact, with my great appreciation (in the gallery below!).
I wish you all the best luck possible for your trip in France, dear Steno!
Deep gratitude goes to Bao Publishing and Olivier Jalabert for making this possible.
Thank you all.
Logo for the "Monolith" fictional car company.
Two different logotypes were developed for the graphic novel and movie incarnation of the super armored car company while the monogram is unchanged.
Gabriele Mainetti is a director and producer from Rome, owner of GOON Films.
"Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot" his first feature movie, is out now as I write (february 25th), so he needed a logo animation for his own production company.
He called me to take care of it and so this little piece of animation was born.
The topic, "GOON", was somehow very weird.
1.
Informal. a hired hoodlum or thug.
2.Slang.
a stupid, foolish, or awkward person.
a roughneck.
Goon is a negative term, no doubt about it.
Driven by an idea of violence, stupidity.
Goons are outcasts, violent people.
Movies, however, tell us people's stories, their lives and the reasons behind their personalities.
A story that shows us what brought a man to a blatantly wrong choice rather than a right one It's more interesting for sure, because we firmly think we would never act like him in the first place.
Good movies allow us to see people's soul, they take us away from places where we feel at home, confident.
Good movies show us that people who initially look weird to us are often beautiful, unique people.
Weird people can be dreamers that went too far for our idea of being "good".
I tried, as I have been requested to do, to exalt, or to contradict by contrast, metaphorize, coddle this apparently two-dimensional word.
Behind a weird guy or a "bad" choice doesn't necessarily hide bad story.
As an extra: I didn't go straight for the final version.
I usually start with three different takes on the same thread when a client asks me to develop a corporate ID.
I love to give them the widest spectrum of choice, with VERY different takes.
I developed a STRAIGHT, a HUMOROUS and a OXYMORONIC proposals.
So, I started with a self explanatory, straight version.
A bad on bad take.
The knuckle duster proposal.
Then I went for a more funny, cute one.
The "ugly hero" take.
Then the final one, where GOON word is juxtaposed in the sequence after a young boy spotting us in the dark:
Is he an outcast?
Is he a survivor?
Is he protecting his people or is he all alone?
Is he a scavenger or is he out for a great adventure?
Is it the future or is it the past?
What's the story behind this young boy looking at us?
CREDITS:
The GOON: Stefano Calcaterra
Music: Gabriele Mainetti
Photography: Andrea Camandona
Studio: Talent's
Sound FX: Mirko Perri
Mixing and delivery: In House post Roma
Illustrazioni di copertina per la trilogia di Southern Reach di Jeff Vandermeer.
Inchiostro, stampa offset a 5 colori (è una quadricromia più un diverso colore fluorescente per ognuno dei volumi), serigrafia a due colori su acetato.
Grazie ancora a Monica Aldi e a Francesco Guglieri per la bella opportunità.
Onoratissimo di aver collaborato con una delle mie case editrici preferite in assoluto.
Non sono ancora in possesso del libro, sono negliUSA ancora per un po'. Nel frattempo ri pubblico le foto del libro ad opera di Federico Novaro, e ne trovate molte altre qui, sul suo blog: http://www.federiconovaro.eu/annientamento-di-jeff-vandermeer-einaudi-2015/
A seguire una breve gallery con un po' di work in progress e un video di spiegazioni su youtube registrato in occasione della presentazione del progetto grafico.