About

Rigging specialist with 2.5+ years in film and animation production, currently leading the rigging department at Mad Entertainment. I build custom Python/Blender pipeline tools alongside hands-on character and creature rigging, and motion capture cleanup and retargeting for TV series, feature animation and film.

My background in graphic design and web development brings a strong eye for usability to tool and rig UI design.

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Career

(CV) — 2018 → NOW

WORK

NOW →

DUE21COMUNICACOOLTURATIPI — ART DIRECTORFREELANCE RIGGERMAD — RIGGING ARTISTMAD — RIGGING LEAD

EDUCATION

FEDERICO II — ARCH.ILAS — 2 MASTERBIG ROCK – H-FARM

20192020202120222023202420252026

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Experience

2025 — NOWCURRENT

Rigging Lead

Mad Entertainment · Naples · Animation studio

Lead and manage the rigging department across multiple concurrent animated and live-action productions.
Design and build in-house Python/Blender pipeline tools: a modular facial rigging toolkit, Rigify metarig auto-placement, a GPU-based motion path editor, GPU-accelerated retopology and a compositor node preset manager.
On-set Mocap Technician: suit setup, live capture and data cleanup in Rokoko, plus custom cleanup and retargeting tools in Blender.
Bridge rigging, animation and modeling on facial rig adoption and pipeline standards.

I'M STILL ALIVE · R. SAVIANOFEATURE 2027

NOV 2023 — 2025

Rigging Artist

Mad Entertainment · Naples · Animation studio

Production character rigs for animated series.
Library-override-safe rig UI systems and character-specific workflows, including lipsync cycles and facial rig retargeting across meshes.
Grease Pencil rigs for 2D/2.5D characters with a BBone and driver control system.

FOOD WIZARDS 2 · RAI PLAYPESCI PICCOLI 2 · PRIME VIDEO

MAR — NOV 2023

Freelance 3D Artist – Rigger

Remote

Character and creature rigging for entertainment events and advertising VFX.
A realistic animated 3D avatar used as a live visual for a DJ set at the AIRI event, Duel (Naples).

FEB 2022 — FEB 2023

Art Director

TiPi Social s.r.l. · Naples

Managed the graphic and web design side of the agency's creative output.

SEP 2021 — JAN 2022

Graphic & Web Designer

Cooltura Creativa · Aversa

Advertising, motion graphics, websites and design.

SEP 2020 — JUL 2021

Graphic & Web Designer

Due21Comunica s.r.l. · Naples

Advertising, websites and design.

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Skills

RIGGING & PIPELINE

Blender — Rigify, Geometry Nodes
Python / bpy, add-on development
Maya — MEL scripting
Character & facial rigging
Retopology, motion editing

MOTION CAPTURE

Rokoko — suit setup
Live recording on set
Motion data cleanup
Custom cleanup & retargeting tools in Blender

OTHER SOFTWARE

Substance Painter · ZBrush
Unreal Engine · Marvelous Designer
After Effects · Photoshop · Illustrator

SOFT SKILLS

Team leadership
Cross-department collaboration
Problem solving
Adaptability

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Education

MAR — AUG 2023

Master in Computer Graphics

Big Rock Academy – H-FARM · Autodesk Training Center certification

2020 — 2021

Master in Web Design Pro Responsive

ILAS — Italian Communication Academy

2020 — 2021

Master in Advertising Graphics, Editorial, Social & Digital Ads

ILAS — Italian Communication Academy

2018 — 2020

Architecture

University of Naples Federico II

ITALIANNative

ENGLISHIntermediate / advanced