Ale Barbesi
Art Direction Concept Art Illustration
bio
From illustration and painting, to sculpting models, my main interest is creating characters and backgrounds for animation,films and books.
Pencil sketches,colorkeys,layouts,digital painting,sculpting,modeling,undestanding shape and style,looking for the right mood,deciding color palettes,all this is and more take part of the creation process.
When I left Fine Arts School,I did illustration,scenography,murals and sculptures for theatre and TV commercials.Bit by bit I got involved in animation and by 2007 I was part of the Art team at Illusion Studios as visual development artist,working on backgrounds,set and character design for Gaturro, 3D movie based on Nick's comic strip character.
Then,from 2009 to 2014, I was Lead artist and illustrator
at McFly Studio,doing backgrounds,modelling 3D sets and props,matte painting,designing characters,illustrating comic books and sculpting model maquettes.
In 2015 I started as Art Director of Condorito's movie,based on the most popular comic character of latin america.The movie premiered in october 2017 becoming a huge box-office success in Chile,Peru and Mexico.
Currently I am working as free-lance artist and illustrator.

