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

Huge news!

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!

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)



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First look

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

Tico & Loco

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

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

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

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

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.