Enrico Scheri

Ondino season 2 - Hiccups

2011-09-06T14:53:00.002+02:00

One of the episodes I storyboarded for the second season of Ondino / Ripples. Enjoy!

Patatai the rabbit

2011-03-13T16:39:00.016+01:00

all images in this post © Editrice Campanila 2011

A selection of illustrations made for childrens' book Patatai e la macchia (Patatai and the spot) published in 2011 by Editrice Campanila, Italy.

media: digital paint

Mediterranea

2010-10-27T16:19:00.005+02:00

Cover designed for 2-tracks promo CD Mediterranea by Francesca Gancitano.

Media: digital

Ondino season 2

2010-09-10T15:59:00.000+02:00

trailer Ondino serie 2 from artFive on Vimeo.

The trailer of the second season of Ondino / Ripples TV series,
broadcasted in Italy from september 9th, 2010.

NOS

2010-03-02T18:32:00.010+01:00

media: digital

Cover art and package design for NOS, an electronic 'supergroup' formed by three experienced underground musicians here in Genoa: Riccardo Canessa, Claudio Ferrari and Marco Cacciamani.

Since NOS project rise from the meeting of the three musicians, their history and their styles, I based the whole concept on number three: from the band logo (formed by three letters associated with three alchemic symbols) to the image of three forms of different kind, provenance and colour (the musicians) which meet in the black (void space, nowhere, or silence), intersecting each other and generating white colour (light, energy, or music, if you like).

You can listen a selection of tracks from this album on the NOS official myspace site

Concept artworks for Il re dell'isola

2009-07-03T12:16:00.040+02:00

all images in this post © artFive 2009

media: pencil, digital colouring

For Il re dell'isola I made several 'concept artworks' to test the setting of the main actions of the script inside the planned background set. I always liked to do this kind of drawings because you can freely explore the mood of the scenes without restrictions in techinique or composition.

As the story is settled in the early 20th century, I chose a charcoal-like style with thin frame lines and classical lettering to recall the popular illustrations of that age.

The image at the beginning of this series shows the main character, Gioanin, as an old man that let his memory return to the childhood days, starting the movie.

The fourth image illustrates Gioanin's dream of the savage island in a daylight version, alternative to the one used in the actual movie. This is the only full-coloured concept artwork with the intent to suggest a different visual style for the dream sequence.

The artworks posted here are just a few of the series I drawn. You can see a larger sample on the gallery section of The King of the Island official website, where you can also compare how the same scene developed from concept artworks through color studies and storyboard to the actual frames of the movie.

2D backgrounds - Lanterna promontory at the beginning of 20th century

2009-04-30T17:00:00.038+02:00

all images in this post © artFive 2009

media: digital

For Il re dell'isola I did also some matte painting (still backgrounds behind 3D elements). This is an example of the historical research demanded by this movie, as I had to reconstruct the look of the now-destroyed promontory that once linked the big lighthouse called Lanterna to the hills behind the city.

For the skyline and the shape of the main buildings I referred to a selection of ancient black-and-white photos, and for the colors to a fresco on the roof of the main hall of ducal palace here in Genoa. A bit of imagination was necessary here and there, but the general result seems to me quite believable. 3D clouds, sea and atmospheric effects were added to this background to create the final image you can see in the movie.

3D background design - City gate and old pier

2009-02-17T17:22:00.012+01:00

all images in this post © artFive 2009

Some studies for the sets I designed for Il Re dell'isola, an animated 3D short film directed by Raimondo Della Calce and settled in Genoa at the beginning of the 20th century.
We tried to reconstruct the appearance of the main pier of the old port, with the city gate called Porta Siberia, still visible today, and the head of the pier with its small lighthouse, demolished in the '20s.

3D background design - Gioanin's house

2009-02-16T11:14:00.010+01:00

all images in this post © artFive 2009

Some other sketches I did for the sets of the short film Il Re dell'isola. This is the house where the main character of the movie, a child called Gioanin, live with his mother. The exterior of the house is a real existing building, hidden somewhere in Genoa's medieval heart, while the interior is pure invention, with props based on old-times photos.

Fludd - True Temper

2008-08-22T14:27:00.009+02:00

media: digital

Cover art and graphic package for another album by Marco Cacciamani.

This time I wanted to pay tribute to the cold graphic of the '80s, with its risky color combinations. Incidentally, it became also a tribute to Warhol's graphic art.
Just at the end of the work Marco told me he had taken the title of the album from a painting by Warhol he had seen at an exhibition. To both, it seemed like the perfect closure of a circle.

You can listen some tracks from this album on Marco Cacciamani's myspace site.

Concept artworks - Pinocchio

2008-03-23T17:11:00.015+01:00

all images in this post © Animabit Studios

media: digital

Two concept artworks from a series I drawn to explore the possibilities of a new animated version of the Italian childhood literature classic, Pinocchio.

In the first image Pinocchio is approaching the gates of the town of Acchiappacitrulli, accompained by his 'friends', The Cat and The Fox.
The second image is a classic of the illustration history of the book, showing Pinocchio looking at the moon from inside the mouth of The Whale.

A coach for 21st century

2007-03-19T14:36:00.015+01:00

media: pencil, digital

What if the coach shape was still a reference for automobile design? A cartoonish answer.

Storyboard for Ondino TV series

2007-01-22T15:03:00.004+01:00

Storyboard for "Ondino" TV series from Enrico Scheri on Vimeo.

A sequence from one of the storyboards I draw for the first season of Ondino, an animated 3D series produced by Animabit and RAI (the Italian national TV company).

2D backgrounds - Fancy campiello

2006-10-18T11:05:00.005+02:00

media: pencil, digital

A friend of mine (and great illustrator) likes this drawing and recommended me to show it on the blog.

It is a background design test I realized for an animated series to be settled in Venice. Don't waste time trying to recognize what campiello (little square) of Venice's historic centre it is, for it's just a fancy one. But if it reminds you a real existing one, please tell me where it is!

Unterwelt - The little lonely house

2006-03-30T12:22:00.007+02:00

media: acrylic paint, digital

Another illustration for Unterwelt - Una cybersinfonia by Stefano Roffo. The funny thing about this one is that it illustrates simultaneously two literary works! In fact Unterwelt narrates from another point of view the closure of Gustav Meyrink's novel, Der Golem.

For those who asked me, this is the illustration from which I took the houses in the mist you can see in the blog header above...

Unterwelt - into the graveyard

2006-03-29T19:10:00.001+02:00

media: acrylic paint, ink, digital

Illustration for Unterwelt - una cybersinfonia by Stefano Roffo. A SF short story settled in an imaginary Prague.

3D backgrounds - The House of Golem

2006-03-19T14:19:00.009+01:00

media: pencil, digital

A kind of spin-off from the illustrations I did for Unterwelt. I liked the idea of the abandoned house of Golem in typical Praguese style, so I imagined the whole building with backyard, stairs and rooms beyond the facade that appears in the published illustration.

Realistic characters - Unterwelt

2006-03-18T23:27:00.002+01:00

media: pencil

Gustav, the Polish adventurer. An illustration and some studies I did for short story Unterwelt by Stefano Roffo.

Realistic characters - Mon Amour Film

2005-04-09T10:14:00.011+02:00

all images in this post © Mon Amour Film

media: digital

Some poses of Rubina as Mon Amour Film's brand-mascot. You can find more on the official website and on the related merchandising page.

2D backgrounds - Palazzo del Comune

2005-03-22T23:51:00.006+01:00

media: digital

One of the backgrounds I did for the animated intro to promotional DVD Emilia-Romagna regione animata, a showreel of animation studios, directors and festivals from Emilia-Romagna region produced by Achtoons studio in Bologna. The clip featured a character running through some of the main monuments of Emilia-Romagna. The one showed here is the Palazzo del Comune of Piacenza.

I'm happy to had the opportunity to create a De Chirico-like mood using monumental architectures and deep shadows, for I think it give a rich and slighty mysterious look to the whole short.

Fludd - Vast and Fixed

2005-03-10T10:55:00.015+01:00

media: photo, digital.

A cover for electronic music composer Marco Cacciamani. He dreamed the concept, and I visualized it as a personal tribute to Hipgnosis. Strange suspended mood with all the realistic precision of the photography... do you remember Wish You Were Here and Presence?

Again, an opening cover, this time in a more conventional horizontal layout.

Advertising Storyboard

2004-05-12T13:38:00.006+02:00

media: colour pencils, digital

A test I did trying to get into advertising storyboard world, quite different from the cartoon storyboard planet where I live.

2D backgrounds - The Skypopolis Center

2004-03-22T23:41:00.010+01:00

media: pencil drawing with digital colouring

The opening background of a promo trailer for Achtoons studio's TV series project The Skypopolis Center.

Scosso 34

2002-04-01T00:24:00.005+02:00

media: ink, watercolour

Another illustration for Scosso (Novelle Antipanico) by Gabriele Gismondi. This was the first appearance of Rubina, the little girl who later became Mon Amour Film production company's brand mascot (see character design section).

Scosso 4

2002-03-12T14:26:00.017+01:00

media: ink, watercolour

An illustration for short stories book Scosso (novelle antipanico) by Gabriele Gismondi.

Won't you take a ride on a cartoonish spider?

2000-12-03T12:19:00.003+01:00

media: colour pencil

A prop I designed for the Skypopolis project produced by Achtoons studio in Bologna. Characters were designed by Anna Lucia Pisanelli.

Snika

2000-03-09T10:52:00.019+01:00

media: colour pencils

My very first CD cover, for Snika's debut (and sole) album, a little gem of underground rock from Bologna.
Clearly, a tribute to Cream's covers like Wheels of Fire or Disraeli Gears. I always loved that graphic style, very Rock but also very free and artistic.
Another thing I always loved are the opening covers with artwork that continues on the back side.
This one continues in vertical because the booklet is a square mini-poster folded four times. I thought was funny to let the listener free to choose as main cover the lower half part with the creamy "Snika" logo or the upper half part with the portaits of the musicians.

You can listen I Can't Shine Like You, a track taken from this album, on Snika's myspace site. Enjoy!

Snika on Capetown Radio

1998-04-29T11:06:00.007+02:00

media: ink

In 1998 my friend one-man band Snika won a contest held by Radio Città del Capo in Bologna for underground bands and musicians. Among the prizes there was a regular playing of one of his song on the radio. This poster celebrated the event. The sixties-styled lettering and, above all, the little flying saucer are a tribute to Cream's Wheels of Fire cover art (to me, maybe the best rock cover ever drawn).