Cloudy with a chance of spaceships

Our alien is going to hit Italian theaters on March, 9 2012!

L'ARRIVO DI WANG
WANG'S ARRIVAL

Cerebus the Aadvark - render test

This is an early render test of one of the shots I animated for the movie.
By the way, today I've just finished animating my 14th shot..... Wow! Very remarkable! :)

Reel 2010 / 2011

Featuring shots from L'Arrivo di Wang, Cerebus the Aadvark, Befriend the Bull and more.

Befriend that bull, man...

Whoo-hoo! Hey guys! Are you ready to meet Clive, the most handsome and loyal British gentle-bull you've ever seen? He also had a very good taste in picking friends. His BFF is that cute little skinny coyote over there, the name's Drake. Well, what's wrong with that, you might ask. Easy: Clive is supposed to guard over a farm house, instead Drake is hungry all the time so he got used to stealing other's food... Got it now?
The pilot episode is coming this holiday season, in the meantime do not forget to visit, like and share the OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE.

Befriend the bull, coming soon on YouTube!

L'Arrivo Di Wang: extended trailer

Our alien is finally revealed in this one. Unfortunately, none of these shots are animated by me, I just did some small cleanup on those.

Daxter Animation

Re-creating and animating Daxter was a lot of fun I feel like sharing it with the whole world. Just a few adjustments here and there and the Daxter rig will be available on Creativecrash!

L'Arrivo di Wang - Teaser Trailer

Here's the teaser trailer. Way to go! 3 more days to Venice I SO can't wait for it!

Aliens are coming...

Wang... the alien.

At long last, here's the first official poster from the movie I've been working on the whole year at Palantir Digital. "L'Arrivo di Wang" is a sci-fi movie directed by Marco and Antonio Manetti who also directed several movies, clips and TV series. The movie will premiere this September at Venice Film Festival 2011. After that, I really hope I'll be able to show at least a few of all the hundreds of shots I did for the movie. There's more on the way (one trailer and a couple clips will also be released) so stay tuned for more.

Cerebus the Aadvark

Here three of the shots I did (and still doing) for this awesome project. There's more on the way so stay tuned!

(Work In Progress)




(Work In Progress)



From Wiki:

Cerebus the Aardvark, or simply Cerebus, is an independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard. Cerebus ran for 300 issues from December 1977 to 2004, and was over 6000 pages long, the longest-running original English-language comic book series ever by a single creative team. As of 2011, it leads its closest challenger (Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, still ongoing) by over 100 issues. Sim refers to it as the "longest sustained narrative in human history."

I animated the car falling and sinking into the river at 1:58 of this music clip.

Mother...?!

3D maya animation - "Mother...?" from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

3D maya animation - "Alone At Last" from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

This is my second interpretation of Tangled. Hope you all enjoy.

I thought it would be fun to re-animate some random scenes from Disney's feature film "Tangled" my own way. Indeed, it was SUPER FUN!
Time taken: 2 days each.
Software used: Autodesk Maya.
Voices: Mandy Moore, Donna Murphy.

All copyrights belong to Disney. (C)

11second club

This was my february entry for the 11secondclub. I know that probably it could have been A LOT better than this, yet that's the best I could do with only a few days available to work on.

Small Riders

A friend of mine animated on this brand new French serial so if you guys are on Facebook, click HERE and like it! The more people join the club, the more clips will be posted. Next stop, 500 fans!

Llama Face!

Since I love The Emperor's New Groove movie and just found this adorable llama rig on CreativeCrash, I thought of making a small animation over it. Check it out:

Llama Face - Maya 3D animation from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

3D animation featuring a llama and a squirrel. Done in Maya. Voiceover: David Spade - John Goodman (The Emperor's New Groove) (c) Disney