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Daniele Afferni

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What is your name and your current occupation?
I’m Daniele Afferni, illustrator, concept artist and co-founder of StudioASC, a creative team specialized in pre-visualization and illustration for advertising, film and TV commercial located in Milan, Italy.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
Drawing and painting are the only things I’ve done in my whole life!  After attending an Art High School and a qualifying course in comics drawing, I directly moved to my first job as an inside-man illustrator in a big advertising agency (Armando Testa).  (I don’t think it’s crazy …all the nights we were forced to spend into the agency to deliver our works on time …those were crazy!) Then I became a freelance illustrator and later I founded the creative team ASC, in association with two friends of mine, the illustrators/designers/animators Anna Citelli and Luca Mari.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
I had the thrilling opportunity to collaborate with several interesting professional artists, like the Italian movie director Gabriele Salvatores in “Nirvana”, or the English movie director Nicolas Roeg. In Europe it is a common habit for the movie directors to do also commercial spots to enlarge their experience;  just to give you an example, I recall with great pleasure having worked with Wim Wenders for the Ariston-Hotpoint tv commercial: really particular to see a director of a very high artistic level to “soil his hands” with a washing-machine!

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I didn’t start as an animator. Basically I’m a Visualizer and a Concept Artist.  I finished my studies with the aim of drawing comics, but Continue reading

Anna Citelli

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What is your name and your current occupation?
Hi, my name is Anna. My second name is Maria. You can use only Anna or Anna+Maria; you can combine them as you like. Citelli is my surname. I deal with visual and 3D modeling for the ASC creative team (pronounced in Italian with the same sound of ASK in English and we play with the same meaning), which I co-founded with Daniel Afferni and Luca Mari in Milan, Italy.

What are some of the crazier jobs you had before getting into animation?
During a period of time long enough, I’ve tried working in various creative fields. I worked with photographers to prepare mock up, I made portraits of cloth for advertising, I presented design projects and I painted on canvas my favorite subject, a portrait of man who jumps, at the time of suspension.

What are some of your favorite projects you’re proud to have been a part of?
The work I most care about, after what I am doing for the ASC, is a project to change the cultural approach that the society has in relation with death: Capsula Mundi.

Where are you from and how did you get into the animation business?
I have always loved drawing and I did it since I was a child. The images allow the mind to travel to new areas, to invent personal worlds. The ability to Continue reading