27 million satellite images from the past 37 years, 2 million hours of rendering done inside Google’s carbon neutral data centers, the new Google Earth Timelapse features time as the 4th dimension to explore our planet.

Done entirely at Creative Lab London, I was responsible of setting the correct pipeline between Google Earth Studio, enabled with experimental features and After Effects.
I then animated 3d cameras in Google Earth Studio, rendering on multiple machines, 4k imagery that has been then used for the first time in January at Davos 2020 on the main led screen, which used a 2:1 ratio and a 4k resolution.
I also delivered assets for other screens in Davos, one huge video that was looping between the three main ones and more clips used by scientists.

The project received a huge media coverage and it’s still going strong on Youtube and magazines.

A collection of experiences made with WebXR, which brings together AR and VR on the web to make them more convenient and widely accessible.
We’re featuring some of our own projects here and encourage everyone to grow the collection and push the boundaries of what’s possible with WebXR.

I worked on some of the 3d transitions, intro and endframe, where I created a 3d Pixel 5 phone with some 3d light effects.
I also did some beauty work on the footage, to replace a sky.

Look to Speak is an Android app from ‘Experiments with Google‘ which enables people who have language and motor impairments to use their eyes to select pre-written phrases and have them spoken aloud. Keyword Post.

I made the tutorial (in app and youtube), some gifs for the media comms pack and some clean ups on the main film.

A website to help Chrome users understand social distancing, by using WebXR to visualise 2m in the space around them.
I helped the team develop the visual language used in the experiment and created the social assets.

I created the motion visual identity of Teach from Home, a hub of information and tools to help teachers to teach from home during the CV-19 crisis.

Creating a way to drive awareness and understanding of the News Media Bargaining Code, and how it will negatively affect user experience on Google and YouTube in Australia.

A quick and fun test for the Aria App, for the 5Euro Challenge a project for Woa Creative Company during the 2020 Covid-19 quarantine.

10 animations, starting from Starling Bank logo, with a strong narrative in each of them.
5 pattern animations using the Starling elements, constantly moving.

Character explorations and extreme cuteness

Looping animations done in collaboration with GIF Magazine.

Cinema4d + Redshift

Follow the light.
A new world awaits.

Wild is the debut single from the instrumental artist Marcus Grimm.
Recorded in the suggestive Teatro delle Voci in Treviso and mastered at the Abbey Road studios in London.
The video, a journey into a dreamy world fully created in CGI, is directed and animated by Gasta, awarded London-based visual artist.

Done in C4D, Arnold, After Effects.

Premiered on Our Culture Mag.

5 seconds looping animation for Greyscale Gorilla 5 seconds projects contest, April 2018. Theme: “Playground“.

After a long winter, the spring is finally here. So, we went to the playground and, well, we weren’t the only ones. A swarm of endless sliding and swinging and screaming kids, all around us!
The only thing we’ve been left to do was to join them. So here we are!

Done in Cinema4d + Arnold with the precious help of alcinoo.
Fully looping!

Music: Gingerlys – Playgrounds live at WFMU (Creative Common 0)

With Google Creative Lab, I had the chance to work on this incredible 360 video for Waymo.
Working with the creative leads, I helped them envision the look of the graphic overlays, translating not just in a simple and effective way how the Waymo technologies work, but also trying to be as much accurate as possible.

I also created the logo animation and a wide range of assets, used for press and internal use.

NSynth Super it’s an open source experimental instrument made by Google Creative Lab which gives musicians the ability to make music using completely new sounds generated by the Magenta’s NSynth algorithm from 4 different source sounds.

Working with the Google Creative Lab team, I’ve been responsible of envisioning and delivering some animations for the website and videos. Trying to be as much as precise as possible, I coded some animations in After Effects starting from the  real data coming from the AI algorithm.

Working just with shapes and baking expressions, I managed to export my 30 seconds animation into an SVG format, which file size is as little as 500kb. This it’s then been embedded in the official NSynth Super website.

Your Luxury Portrait is a visual installation created by Google Creative Lab, showcasing the low light capabilities of the Google Pixel 2. With mirrors and lenses that mimic the Google Pixel 2 camera, Your Luxury Portrait invites the audience to create a personal representation of their own luxury.

Working with the Google Creative Lab team, I’ve been responsible of envisioning and delivering the animation for the window display at Selfridges, on Oxford Street.
Using some pictures shot on Pixel 2, I played extensively with expressions in order to build an organic animation that would link to the actual installation.

Draw to art is another incredible installation made by Google Creative Lab.
Using machine learning, you can draw a simple sketch to search through thousands of artworks and see what comes up.

On this project I used Houdini to visualise the actual distribution of the 122000 features in the 3d space.
Using a simple setup, I imported the coordinates (generated in python) and applied the relevant artwork texture to each plane.
I then used After Effects to explain how the program works.

The Studio had the pleasure of working with Riff Raff director Casey and Ewan on the latest Leftfield music video “Head & Shoulders”.

The video consisted in an evolving journey of a monster that grows not only in size but also in its look, from hand drawn to stop frame to 3d animation.

The Studio was asked to work on the 3d section of the video. The main references were low res, highly saturated, overall wrong and glitchy videos from early 90’s 3d video games and movies.

The team started creating an animatic, invaluable for timings both for the 3d artists and the director.

Along with it, Jason Williamson, singer of Sleaford Mods, has been shot lip-syncing the song using three cameras, in order to create an unwrapped texture for his 3d face model.

As soon as we got the style frames for the monster, we modelled, sculpted and textured it. Then we rigged it, added dynamics for the dreadlocks and created a setup in order to easily control the glitches.

We then modelled the environments, trying to add another layer of graphic evolution, starting from the stomach and the city quite low res, to the eclipse and the sky scenes more complex and more realistic (if you’re brave enough to believe in a flying monster eating powerplants in the sky).

The eclipse and the sky shots were the most challenging and fun to work on for us: we projected the backgrounds in nuke and, on top of that, made use of 2d relighting tools to enhance the light effects.

In every shot we used loads of c4d xpresso scripts, pyroclusters, x-particles for the dandruff storm (!!!)

Over all the team had a little over 15 days to complete the project.

The promo is airing now.

Personal project, trying to go insane with tons of keyframes.
Just C4D, Vray, no Sketch & Toon, no After Effects, no plugins.

Part of an ongoing series of visionary prototypes, based on the emerging technologies of flexible displays, shape-shifting materials and context-aware functionality. These films highlight humanity’s increasingly integrated relationship with technology, serving as product demos of our near future.
universaleverything.com/projects/screens-of-the-future

Screens of the Future is part of an ongoing display research project, curated by Universal Everything.
screensofthefuture.com

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On this project I’ve animated the amazing illustrations done by Mother Design London for a full length video and the 4 animated gifs.

You can see the full project on Mother Design website.