Name:
Francesco Paduano
Date of Birth: March 01, 1972
Location: Naples, Italy
Area(s) of expertise: Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Lighting,
Illustration, Compositing, Editing, Texturing
Preferred tools: 3ds max, Maya, After Effects, combustion,
finalRender, Painter, Photoshop, VRay, ZBrush
His passion
for digital art started in 1984 using a simple PC as MSX, later
on he moved to commodore 64 and Amiga, home computers, feeling
that computer graphics were the new expression method and thorough
knowledge of the subject, would help him in his career.
In 1990 he got a degree as Art Teacher (at National Arts Institute).
In 1992 he became specialist in interior design (at National Arts
Institute).
In 1994 he is Art director for N.L. Publishing.
In 1997 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics and the cinematic animations
in Syyrah The Warp Hunter for Pixelstorm.
In 1998 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics for Puma Street Soccer
for Sony Playstation and PC intel versions for Pixelstorm s.a.s.,
Sunsoft Europe, Infogrames Distribution and Puma.
In 1999 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics for Chris Kamara Street
Soccer for Sony Playstation and Color Gameboy versions for Pixelstorm.
In 2000 he's one of founders of Raylight Studios srl an italian
games developer company where he's the Artists Supervisor.
In the Raylight Studios he worked on the most popular game titles
for Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS: Wings Advance,
Speedball 2, Wing Commander Prophecy, R-Type III, Smashing Drive,
Ozzy & Drixy, Spiderman 2, Namco Street Racing Syndicate,
Big Mutha Truckers.
To day he work in the Raylight
Studios managment Staff and in freelance works as a professional
in the graphic field and computer graphic (both 2D and 3D). His
varied artistic experience allows to him to work as illustrator,
modeler, painter, texture maker, 3D animator.
