Prosthetic Makeup Artist, Character Fx Creator and Visual IFX Supervisor and founder supervisor of the Imaginari Factory.
Already Art Director and founder of the famous Makinarium SFX and for 3 years Art director of Baburka Factory sfx, he’s been working in the cinema industry for over 20 years, integrating visual effects with mechanical ones, creating creatures, special props, special makeups and animatronic wonders for cinema, television, the art world, fashion and show business in general.
In 2015 wins 2 David of Donatello (Italian Oscars) as concept creator and supervisor of the creatures, Special make up and Visual effects of “The Tale of Tales” by M. Garrone, to which will follow the “Carlo Rambaldi Prize” and the “MAM – Master of Fine Arts” and the nomination to the “2020 Guild Awards” as Best Prosthetic Makeup for Micheal Bay’s “6 Underground”.
Thanks to his approach and the continuous research, he has collaborated with hundreds of movies, along side directors as: Riddley Scott, Hugh Hudson, Michael Apted, Michael Bay, George Clooney, Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, Antoine Fuqua, Roland Elmerick, Paolo Sorrentino, Claire McCarthy, Niccolò Ammaniti, Timur Beckmambetov, Andrej Končalovskij, Vlad Marsavin and partecipating to projects such as “Equalizer 3”, “Immaculate”, “The House of Gucci”, “Tomb Raider”, “Ben Hur”, “The Witches”, “Zoolander 2”, “Wonderwell”, “All the money of the World”, “Hallucinaut”, “Dampyr”, “Marie Magdalene”, “The Witches” and series like “Those About to Die”, “Catch 22”, “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”, “Domina”, “Anna”, “Rome”, “The Borgia”.
In the last years he has been collaborating with GUCCI’s Alessandro Michele for his performances and fashion shows, like “Fall Winter 2018”, the “MET-New York” of 2018 with Maurizio Cattelan and of 2019 with Jared Leto, and with Hyper realistic creations for the “Gucci’s Garden” in Florence and Beijing.
In 2022 he participates in the BIENNALE ARTE in Venice with the Ophicina group with two creations “Archeus” at Forte Marghera and “Dafne” in the Venice Pavilion.
Among the expositions that have been showcasting his work in these years there are Videocittà “Aeffetti: Persona” at the Fori Imperiali in 2018, in 2019 “La Meccanica dei Mostri, da Rambaldi a Makinarium” at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
He is also teacher of “History of Special and visual Effects” and “Special make up Effects” at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinematografia CSC in Rome and the Accademia di trucco del Teatro Alla Scala in Milan.
