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Ciao,
my name is Orio, I've been born on October 11th, 1961, I live in Northern Italy, I'm a professional Xfrog tree programmer/librarian for Greenworks.
I'm a 3D landscape artist and as such I use Vue d'Esprit and other software. I am also an amateur photographer since 1994.
BIOBorn October 11th, 1961 in Salsomaggiore Terme (PR), a small town in Northern Italy, only son of Aldo Menoni and Sila Rossetti, a couple of painter artists.
STUDIES:
University degree in Media and Communications with a thesis on Alfred Hitchcock movies.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 1985-1990 Member of the Executive Board of the International Salso film & TV Festival
- 1987-1994 Worked as creative content developer for Signum CG studio, producing several commercials campaigns for national broadcast networks
- 1991 composed and produced music score for the TV movie "Filippo degli Alberi" ("Philip o' Trees") by director Giovanni Martinelli
- 1995 won the 10th edition of the Segnocinema National Award for movie critic, with an essay on the 100 years of Cinema. The essay won over more than one thousand other entries and the jury was composed by internationally known semiologists such as Francesco Casetti and Alberto Abruzzese
- since 1995 a regular contributor and permanent member of the Editorial Staff of Segnocinema magazine
- 1996 composed and produced the music for "Where's my bloody chair?", the making-of video of the movie "Stealing beauty" (featuring Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons)
- 1997-2000 Cultural Director of the Boscaro Project, for which designed and produced three art books, catalogues, three web sites, and organized art shows in London (European Academy for the Arts, Grosvenor Place, 1998 and Hurlingham Club, Chelsea, 1999), Venice (1999) and Parma (2000), featuring artworks by Giorgio de Chirico, Giacomo Balla, Piero Dorazio, Ettore Sottsass and other artists;
- since June 2000, librarian and tree modeller for Greenworks' Xfrog software.
LIFE AND FREE TIME:
- Formerly married with Ann Lizbeth Andersen in 1997, now divorced.
- Former tennis player, won some regional tournaments in the late 70s and 80s;
- Amateur photographer;
- Long time self-taught amateur of dendrology (science of trees), owning several books on the subject and an evergrowing photographic archive;
- A painter with oils since the age of 5, still affectioned to oil and pastel painting;
- I love trees, cats, ducks, books, art museums, taking walks in the countryside, and open air painting;
- My most beloved places are Paris, the Mediterranean sea coasts, the West coast of Norway, and my hometown hills;
- I am a fairly good cook: my specialties are Penne all'Arrabbiata, Bucatini all'Amatriciana, Spaghetti with walnuts and ricotta sauce, and the Norwegian "Risgroet" pudding;
- I still love women too much!;
- And of course I'm a total addict to Computer Graphics Art - why else would I be here? :-)
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Comments (26)
Artzy
Excellent Work!
Lovely Scene!
AlainC
wow ! wonderful !
sacada
Excellent image and detail. Well done.
iloco
Excellent, Now this is a very nice Vue scene. :o)
Shari123
Wow! I love that vegetation! Excellent composition. Bravo!
meatpuppet76
eXcellent!
Dotthy
Wonderful scene and mood!!!
gallimel
delicate and delicious scene. totally charming, thanx :)
gerberc
Beautiful scene, very well composed and colored!!
Sasha_Maurice
Beautiful scene...looks like paradise.
raffyraffy
Beautiful composition, there is still a little bit to work on lighting and texturing. Bravo however!
Margit1
Wow!! Very beautiful scene! Excellent work with the rocks and i love the trees. Wonderful!!
rds
What a beautiful scene with excellent details very well done.
kenwas
The work you have done with rock placement is very good and the effort shows!
TheWingedOne
Very, very nice! I like the way the basic rock textures came out. Usually I don't like the basic textures that come with Vue, but in this image they looks just fine. Great job! :)))
spider1313
Hey look at all these ROCKS!! Gotta be postwork, I'd say! LOL!! Don't know how you got VUE to handle all these rocks, but I really luck the results!! ==steve
FrenchTish
Beautiful image! ;}
Orio
Spider, it's easy to make the rocks look like that, just go into the material editor and choose less saturated instances of the same colors, for each node in the color graph. You can make the default rock texture look different in a hundreds of ways by just editing the colors and their placement/distribution
zxcvb
Excellent composition and image , well done:-)
lingrif
Excellent scene. The use of the rocks here are spectacular. Nice foliage
Mikeangelo
Very nice scene, excellent work. Dave
timefighter
Excellent stuff....kinda got that oil painting feel to it. Well Done.
FrenchKiss
Beautiful scene! I love your plants and the little rock tutorial is very interesting. Your composition and the lighting in the image are excellent. Bravo!
jgmart
Excellent job! Beautiful composition and lighting.
erka
Wonderful composition, lovely image!
Panic912
Wonderful work!