Dinosaurs short: Wrap Party!

Here are the pictures we took at that super-awesome wrap party we had last month to celebrate the completion of the Jim-Henson memorial short "I'm the Baby - Gotta Love Me!"

The whole soirée has been great fun and many new ideas came out for the future projects. We toasted to the short and Jim Henson himself, may he rest in peace forever. Too bad many of us weren't able to join the party, but oh well. It was like they were there. :)
Featuring:
Davide Maugeri (director-animator), Matteo Rovatti (animator), Luca Stocchi (texture artist - matte painter), Alessandro Lolli (3D modeler, render assistant), Andrea & Francesca (Luca & Alessandro's girlfriends), Baby Sinclair (party pooper... literally, a real pooper.)

Enjoy the pictures!

 Awesome stone-age theming inside the restaurant

 That's me, working on brand-new ideas... oh yeah.

 Our 3D modeler is also a screenwriter... who would have guessed?

Animators United!

 Production babies.... :)

 Checking out the menu...

 WOOOW... Giant stone-age calzone! YUMMY

 Some delicious coconut ice cream for dessert.

And here we are! Greetings to the rest of the team who couldn't join us at this beautiful party!

.......AND IT'S DONE!! Enjoy it!

After 8 months of hard work, we are proud to show you our ultimate tribute to Jim Henson: "I'm the Baby, gotta love me!" is a CG animated short featuring two famous character from one on JH's most succesful shows, "Dinosaurs". Due to unknown reasons (probably because of the series' finale) the serie hasn't been shown around on TV for many many years, and the characters ended up forgotten. We wanted to praise Henson's work and make these characters raise again at the same time. This is how we did it. We hope you enjoy!!

P.S. There are 5 muppetational easter eggs in the short. Have fun and search for them all!

NOT THE 3D, NOT THE 3D!

Hiya all,
I'm very glad (and honored!) to announce two main amazing news I have in store for you:

First, I've started working at RAINBOW CGI where I've been involved in two great projects:

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I'm having a great time animating on both, and I feel like I've been learning a lot. Plus, all the guys there at RBW CGI are extremely kind. Long story short, let's just say that I'm living my dream. :D
Wait, there's more: remember the old Jim Henson/Disney TV serie called Dinosaurs? Well, some workmates and I are doing a 1.30' CG animated short based upon those characters. Gotta love'em!

And here's the article Ryan Dosier from The Muppet Mindset reserved us:
http://themuppetmindset.blogspot.it/2012/08/news-update-august-16-2012.html