Francesco Castelli - www.francescocastelli.it - Resume
General informations:
Date of Birth 24.09.1981
Place of Birth Varese ‐ Italy
E‐mail info@ francescocastelli.it
Education and Qualifications:
2011 Went to Concept Design Academy, Pasadena (CA)
Analytical Figure Drawing - Character Design · Figure Invention for animation - Story Development for Animation · Cinematic Storyboard
2009‐2010 Graduated with honours in 2D Animation at Vanarts, Vancouver (BC) ‐ Canada
2006 Children’s books ‐3 months Short Course in Central Saint Martin London – United Kingdom
2005 3 months Stage with Piemme Publishing House (Children’s books) Milan ‐ Italy
2001‐2004 Scuola del Fumetto (Comics school) Milan ‐ Italy
1995‐2000 Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico (science and biology) , Luino (VA) ‐ Italy
Work Experiences:
Now
Colors for the illustrations of all of the Vita al college books
Storyboards for differents TV-Spots for DeltaFrame
Teacher at the Scuola del Fumetto (animation and Character Design)
Age 29
Went to the CDA (Pasadena)
Colors for the illustrations of all of the Vita al college books
Storyboards for differents TV-Spots for DeltaFrame
Character Designer for Ex-Machina
Motion Comics for Walt Disney Company Italia
Teacher at the Scuola del Fumetto (animation)
Book Trailer for Geronimo Stilton i Preistotopi
Age 28
Receive Vanarts leaving Diploma with Honours in classical Animation;
(for more info please, contact me).-
Animated Spot for Fatti di China
Little animation in Flash for Kinder Ferrero project;
Flash animations with Looney Tunes Characters for De Agostini;
Illustrations for the Magazine “Patente.it”;
Illustrator for the project “il Pedibus con” on educational CD ROM www.ilpedibuscon.it;
Illustrations for a team Park (il parco del Ticino);
Illustrations (Pencil, ink and colors) for the Geronimo Stilton’s “Tea Sisters – Sfida a ritmo di danza”;
illustrations (just colors) for the Geronimo Stilton’s “Tea Sisters- il progetto super segreto”
Age 25
Illustrations for the book Geronimo Stilton, “Race Across America”, Piemme.
Working as illustrator for different studios.-
Age 24
Illustrator of gamecards “il mercante in fiera” (with Caricatures of Italian
National Football Team) for Peroni Beer Company;
Illustrations for the book: “Christmas Toy factory”,Geronimo Stilton;
Age 23
Receive Scuola del fumetto (school of comics) leaving Diploma in “Fumetto Umoristico” (Comics);
Start as illustrator for Geronimo Stilton,series of children’s books and occasional comic
strips in national magazines, for example, “TV Sorrisi & Canzoni” and important
National newspapers, for example, “Il Giornale”.
Caricature artist for Whirlpool (promo), BlockBuster (opening), Indesit (promo), Bennet
(supermarket, S.Valentine’s day), Carrefur (promo), Nastro azzurro.
Age 20
Start work for Gaghi Publishing House: ‐ Illustrator of comic strip for children called “Alta Cucina”written byTommaso Valsecchi published on magazine “44 Gatti” ; ‐ Illustrator for “Tom & Jerry Pirate ”, published in USA by 5 sterling.
Age 19
Receive High School leaving Diploma; Work in collaboration with several artists; Work as caricaturist for various firms; Start Working for Markad Agency, creating storyboards and layouts for Milan Channel and Hayer (avertising); Take part in creation of advertising campaign “ Scuola Pritt 2004 (Henkel) andGardaland”
Age 17
Illustrator for Milan Software House “Finson” – work in educational CD Roms.
Age 15
Worked for German Magazine “Dolce Vita Lago Maggiore” as an illustrator – for
3 years.
Age 3
After tasting success on bringing home a picture from Nursery School, I decide
to dedicate my life to drawing.
Hobbies:
Directed and played amatorial musical, inspired by ¨ Hairspray ¨,
¨Hercules¨, ¨The Rocky Horror Show¨, ¨ Grease¨, ¨Sister Act¨, ¨The
Blues Brothers¨. I really like to make people laughing.
I love to walk and taking photos.