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Davide La Sala is a technician of the special effects for cinema. He
taken care of rigging in professional way since four years. This task
consists in preparing the animation system for the characters of
animation films.
David has cultivated the passion for this job crossing between
technique and art since the tender age of fifteen years old. Thinking
to undertake the right studies he has been dedicated to electronics
course and he has cultivated the possibility to attend one only school
that rare in his country, the special effects and animatronics school
of master Carlo Rambaldi (the E.T. Father) but in those years the
computer graphics taking place instead of the robotic animation than I
decided to jump in three dimensional world.
The arrival on the homely computers of the 3D graphics and the low cost
digital instruments turn Davide decidedly towards a course of personal
formation and from self-taught ,in spite of has continued to grow the
passion and hobby for the robotics and the electronics.
In the 1998, eighteen years old, Davide is passed not only to the adult
maturity but also under his belt study of modelling techniques and 3D
animation. As many in that period were attempt to milestones of the 3D
software: from Impulse Imagine to 3D Studio DOS in order then to make
the jump of quality and complexity with the first version of 3D Study
MAX.
The native passion has been transformed, a beautiful day, in a
profession and Davide finally lands in the professional world of the CG
at Blisscomedia (www.blisscomedia.com) , a very small company in Turin,
he was taken care of musical video clip, industrial video and
commercial . A classic garage was the starting point where many of
today's big company have taken life.
In this context that Davide sees to crown its efforts of first
international big achievement, "Blue" of the band Eiffel65 was the
first italian video clip, worldwide famous, being realized with
techniques of computer generated character animation.
Davide acquires techniques of animation and rigging and he has been
integrate in the workflow of one professional production. MTV has
contributed to the notoriety of this Davide's job making to incessantly
pass all the hours on the telly.
Five long years of professional workings and evolutions of techniques
and instruments (he also turn to Alias Maya software) they have then
carried Davide to land near other truths: at Just Eleven company in
Rome (www.j11.it) he has had way to work to the well-known in Italy and
Europe “Omino Bianco” commercial, rich of animated characters.
Consolidating of his experience sees Davide to approach formation and
spreading. In fact he will teach techniques of preparation of digital
characters for animation, “Maya 101" character rigging course at
Academy of Arts in Venice . Also the “Maya Rigging & Dynamics,
Finding Nemo Tribute rigging seminary" at Webbit 2004 in Padova , will
see instead like speaker on thematic that he beloveds.
After these experiences, Davide lands to the Lumiq Studios
(www.lumiq.com), one of the most important truths in the field of the
television and cinema post-production in the north of Italy. In this
forge of creative artists he has collaborated to the realization of
various commercial, he worked also for making special effects for the
cinema (“Stone Merchant” of Renzo Martinelli,”I Giorni dell'abbandono”
of Roberto Faenza) and production of animated cartoon “Le Notissime”
for Kinder Ferrero.
In this years he has had the possibility to collaborate with Guido
Manuli (one of the most important italian animator in the country) for
the making of “HU-MAN” teaser.
In the 2005 Davide had a big chance to go between the lines of Framestore CFC in London UK (www.framestore.com), pillar of the production of digital visual effects in Europe . He has worked for “Underdog”, a Disney movie and the first Framestore's feature animation film “The Tale of Despereaux” for Universal.
The career of Davide catch up the apex in the 2008 becoming part of the fabulous character TD team in Dreamworks Animation in Los Angeles, California USA (www.dreamworksanimation.com) .
He worked on the Halloween tv special entitled "Monsters vs Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space" is set to premiere on NBC and he is currently working on : The Guardians (2012), based on a not-yet-published book series from author William Joyce, which unites characters every child knows - Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman - to defend the world from a Bogeyman-like villain.
- Davide La Sala
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