Davide Maugeri Character Animation

Cerebus the Aadvark - render test

2011-12-28T05:51:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-16T05:01:00.000-08:00

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

Befriend that bull, man...

2011-09-29T07:32:00.000-07:00

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

2011-09-03T05:43:00.000-07:00

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

2011-09-01T13:18:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-31T07:44:00.001-07:00

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

Aliens are coming...

2011-08-22T03:20:00.000-07:00

Wang... the alien.

2011-08-08T15:44:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-15T00:56:00.000-07:00

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."

2011-06-01T08:26:00.001-07:00

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

Mother...?!

2011-05-08T06:56:00.000-07:00

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

2011-04-02T15:28:00.000-07:00

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

2011-01-29T04:22:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-12-19T01:50:00.000-08:00

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

Huge news!

2010-12-11T11:37:00.000-08:00

The movie I'm working on, L'Arrivo di Wang -Wang's Arrival, directed by Marco and Antonio Manetti- will come out next summer and the first 20 minutes premiered a few days ago at Noir Film Festival in Courmayeur, Piedmont. Yay! Right now I'm completing the last shots, I guess the whole animation thing will be complete in the end of January. I animated hundred of shots so far and I really am glad it's almost done for it hasn't been easy at all! I guess I'll start posting a few stills whenever Manetti Bros. Film will start publishing them officially. Stay tuned.

New 2010 reel!

2010-10-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately I couldn't add the shots I've been doing for "Wang's Arrival" but I can't since neither the trailer and the movie have been released yet. Sob, sob.

Davide Maugeri - animation reel 2010 from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

Reel includes:

Squirrel and berry - personal project

Big Buck Bunny - animation test (Peach Open Movie Project)

Horse animation test - personal project

Troll animation - personal project (voiced by Ian McShane)

Back at the Barnyard - Happy Birthday! (c) Omation Studios

Tico & Loco adventure - animated short (c) 2010 Scuola Internazionale di Comics

Fraidy Dog - 11secondclub September competition

Stan Rig animation - personal project

The Ugly Dino - animated short (www.tuttocartoni.com/theuglydino)

davidemaug@gmail.com

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First look

2010-09-23T04:19:00.000-07:00

Here's a poster from the short I worked on. Enjoy!

Tico & Loco

2010-09-18T09:24:00.000-07:00

Finally, here's a first look at the short I worked on, Tico & Loco! Both the stills are taken from two of the shots I animated.

Wang's Arrival

2010-09-01T11:11:00.000-07:00

The Sci-Fi movie I'm working on at Palantir Digital is now on IMDb!
"L'Arrivo di Wang" (Wang's Arrival) will come out next spring. I really hope we'll be able to finish in time. Stay tuned for more!

The Nico Rig

2010-08-05T06:09:00.000-07:00

This time the rig is a mythological character I really enjoyed to animate. All you need to do is throw a stick and say 'FETCH!' Nico will bring it back immediately.

Stan - 3D animation

2010-07-15T12:26:00.001-07:00

One of the best rigs I ever had the honor to animate. Squashy, stretchy... funny!

Stan - 3D animation from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

So many projects

2010-07-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

I'm working on 3 differents projects right now (I know, that's crazy) the first one I'm about to start is the VFX of a sci-fi feature film at Palantir Digital, Rome -I'm going to talk about this later on- the second one is the 2009/2010 Scuola Comics's new short 'Tico & Loco' of which I'm the lead animator -almost done!- and the third one is a CG animated serial set in the ice age, here are some stills from the main location. Enjoy...

What I did: modeling, texturing, base lighting, rendering.

The King

2010-05-01T16:01:00.000-07:00

I made this animation test just for fun and besides, I wanted to honor one of my favorite singers ever.
Be Pop A Lula... ;)

DODO MODEL

2010-04-22T12:36:00.001-07:00

I modeled this dodo for a new project I'm carrying on. :)

NEWEST ANIMATIONS

2010-03-04T04:27:00.000-08:00

SQUIRREL

Click to play!

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DOG

Click to play!

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HORSE (sound)

Click to play and turn the speakers up!

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TROLL (sound)

Click to play and turn the speakers up!

JURASSIC CAM - Work In Progress

2010-03-04T04:20:00.000-08:00

What I did: Modeling (except for the dinosaur) Texturing, Animation, Lighting, Rendering.

Feed Me

2010-02-24T07:05:00.001-08:00

KOKO

Model and Rig made by Jana Johnson

What I did: Model pose, lighting.

SQUIRRELY POSE

2010-02-21T03:33:00.001-08:00

What I did: Squirrel pose, lighting.

ALBERTOSAURUS

2010-02-02T07:38:00.001-08:00

What I did: Lighting, animation, rendering, texturing (not it all).
Albertosaurus model By Harry Gladwin - Geoghegan and Timur Mehmet.

MEET SINGE AND HIS FRIENDS

2010-01-06T11:53:00.000-08:00

The Ugly Dino from Davide Maugeri on Vimeo.

The Ugly Dino is finally ONLINE! Watch it on VIMEO.

Check out the official website HERE

THE UGLY DINO

2009-10-09T00:23:00.000-07:00

The website for my new animated short "The Ugly Dino" website is ready! Check it out!

http://www.tuttocartoni.com/theuglydino

Ciquala and Manfred are moving to Sarno!

2009-09-17T13:37:00.000-07:00

Here they go, Ciquala and Manfred are parading on their way from South Pole to Italy!
"Friend Of Mine" will be showed on October 16-18 (my birthday!) in the 'Sarno A Fumetti' exibition located in Sarno (SA) Italy. That's definitely one big turning point for our two heroes - and for me, of course! http://www.tuttocartoni.com/sarnoafumetti/3edizione.htm

Big Buck Bunny

2009-08-03T04:02:00.001-07:00

Directly from the homonym open short movie, here are some of the funniest Big Buck Bunny main characters! The first one is the bird and the second one is Frankie the evil flying squirrel. Even if I do not own the characters, I had a lot of fun doing those poses, trying of course to stick to their personality. I dont like Blender that much, but I think it is one amazing opensource CGI program! I hope you like it!
Big Buck Bunny is copirighted by the Peach Open Movie project. I do not own it.

Dave

Work In Progress

2009-07-04T14:03:00.001-07:00

One of the latest scenes I'm working at.

THE UGLY DINO

2009-06-02T06:01:00.000-07:00

Ta-dah! This is the latest feature I'm working at. It's almost 10 times more complicated than Friend Of Mine: more characters, more places, and better animation. THE UGLY DINO tells the same story of the Ugly Duckling, but it's set in the Jurassic age. One rainy night, a small T-Rex egg rolls away from his nest and accidentally lands in the nest of a female Pteranodon called Chelsea. Once the egg hatchs up, Chelsea and her nestlings are astonished wondering what that small T-rex was doing there. Inevitably, Chelsea just can't help loving that cute cub, and decides to parent him. But every other dinosaur is scared by the small T-rex, who starts feeling predator instincts. Things get worse when the cub meets Arnold, a huge Tirannosaurus who begins to hunt him down, forcing the poor dinosaur to leave the valley. Will the real cub's mother and Chelsea be able to save the day before it's too late?
THE UGLY DINO will be out next October, and I would like it to partecipate in famous animation contests like AniBOOM and CORTOONS. In the meantime, have a look at this wallpaper!

I live in the woods...

2009-05-02T11:17:00.001-07:00

"Where nothing is as it seems..." like Todd Edwars sang, but that's not the title of the image. This Jurassic jungle is one of the several sets I created for my new short, on which I still can't say anything... The reason is simple: once the short is complete, I'm going to send it to CORTOONS, and I can't wait them to organize the next contest (spring 2010). I do hope it will get the pass, so lot of people from all over the world will watch my short on the big screen! I'm working hard while waiting them to update the site. Wish me luck.
Dave

Works in progress

2008-11-07T04:17:00.000-08:00

These stills was from the 'Friend Of Mine' making of. Now that the short is complete, I can show you every secret.

Friend Of Mine

2008-11-05T10:35:00.000-08:00

Hi!
It's complete now!
I'm so proud of the final results, even because I never achieved something like this before.

What is 'Friend Of Mine'?

Friend Of Mine is a 3D short set in the wilderness of Antarctica mountains. It is about a 12 years-old boy, Ciquala, who lives all alone in a small Inuit village. One regular day, Ciqala goes home after a not so profitable fishing on the bay. Once home, he discovers in his chest a little elephant seal, who eats all his fishes and greet him with a burp.
Angry and feedless, Ciquala decides to chase the little seal away of his igloo. But then, he will find out that little seal could be the friend he had been waiting for so long...

Click HERE to visit the official website of Friend Of Mine.

Short

2008-10-06T11:02:00.000-07:00

The short is almost done. Hold tight!
I only can tell you that it's set in Antarctica and the main characters are a boy and an elephant seal. I cross my finger and hope it will be successful.
Dave

Hollywood

2008-07-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

Che ve ne pare?

What do you think?

Alien

2008-07-05T03:31:00.000-07:00

This is the new 3D alien model I'm working at. I hope I'll get what I want. Now I'm practicing with visual effects and a new lighting engine.

Questo è il nuovo modello 3D di alieno a cui sto lavorando. Spero di raggiungere le mie prerogative. Ora sto facendo pratica con gli effetti speciali e un nuovo metodo di illuminazione.

2008-06-10T00:49:00.001-07:00

Eccolo qua il mio orgoglio, Chuck l'orso! Lo sto rimodernando, che ne pensate?
Here it is, my pride, Chuck the grizzly bear! I've been modernizing on him, what do you think?

Davide Maugeri CGI animation

2008-06-02T01:12:00.001-07:00

2008-05-26T08:27:00.000-07:00

Questo amicone è il frutto del mio ultimo schizzo su carta. Non male, vero?

This big fella is the fruit of my latest sketch on paper. Not bad, don't you think?

2008-05-22T05:15:00.000-07:00

Benvenuti nel reparto animazione. E' qui che pubblico tutte le animazioni che ho sviluppato di persona in 2D e 3D dal 2003.

High Barn Musical (2008)

Touched (2007)

Cambierà (2007)

Jingle Burps (2007)

Sad Stork (2007)

Sonny (2007)

Melman & Melvin (2005 - 2006)

***PAGINA ANCORA NON COMPLETA***

Chi sono io

2008-05-22T04:45:00.001-07:00

Il mio nome è Davide Maugeri, e sono nato nel lontano 89. Molta (e va bene, facciamo tutta) della gente che conosco pensa che io sia un qualche strano caso di Mr Hide, ma in senso positivo. Ho sempre amato disegnare e fare animazione. Pensare che la mia prima animazione risale a 12 anni fa! Avevo poco più di sei anni e già disegnavo come un ossesso, avevo trovato un blocchetto libero e così... Poi mio nonno mi consegnò una pila mostruosa di ricettari da medico inutilizzati, e così nacque il mio paradiso: interi pomeriggi passati a fare animazioni su animazioni, era tutto per me. Chiaramente non avevo i mezzi che ho adesso, ma mi divertivo lo stesso e in qualche modo mi sentivo già realizzato. Fu così che andai avanti, finchè, proprio quando i blocchetti finirono, mi arrivò il primo vero computer, nel 2003. Da lì iniziai a prendere la mano con Flash, e due anni dopo, con il magnifico mondo del 3D. Effettivamente è questo il mio sogno, diventare un animatore (non turistico, aaaargh!) e lavorare ad una pellicola di animazione.
E' vero, per quanta esperienza possa accumulare, resto in erba, e qui in Italia è difficile trovare questo genere di lavoro. Sono pochi gli studi di animazione veramente qualificati. Avrei dovuto nascere, che so, in California, o anche solo in Francia, dove è ben più sviluppato rispetto a qui.

Faccio sempre del mio meglio,
Davide