Illustration
Key art and image-making
We aim to work on disciplines' boundaries and blurred edges of hand-drawing, constantly exploring new visual solutions via the most recent technologies. Illustrations and graphic works are conceived on the mutual exchange between traditional visual arts and CGI.
KEYWORDS ▾
#artworks
#digital painting
#drawing
#watercolors
SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, Train Station in Florence
RESEARCH ▾
We focus on adopting an analog aesthetics in our digital production, taking into account the contribution of traditional painting and computer graphics; both of them influence our visual approach in creating images.
MISSION ▾
We experiment with digital techniques that have the same materiality as the hand-made drawing, to minimize and re-evaluate the software in favor of a critical view on digital content creation.
Digital Paintings
SELECTED WORKS ▾
#Rome
#Pantheon
#Sapienza
#Florence
#Tirana
#Venice
#Calle
#Vienna
#gas-station
#train
#station
#market
#runaway
#airport
#trees
#cafeteria
#caravan
SUNSET ON THE ROAD ▾
Digital painting starting from a black and white study drawn down with charcoal technique.
#florence
#bagno-a-ripoli
D2 Challenge
Winning image of the D2 challenge no.1 on Hugh Ferriss, promoted by D2 conference and the CG artist Mike Golden (aka Droquis).
In the strip, we combined a typical comics City — as the Gotham created by Bob Kane and directly inspired to Ferriss's work — and the drawing techniques and lighting used in Ferriss's Metropolis of Tomorrow.
KEYWORDS #charcoaldrawing #rendering #digitalpainting #batman #fan-art #hughferriss
CONTEST
Nov. 2020
LINK ▾
D2 challenge — Droquis
COMIC STRIP that combines Ferriss’s typical use of lighting and charcoal techniques with a dark knight story
ABOVE — Some preparatory studies on chiaroscuro used in the post-process and some sketches as lighting studies for the building freely inspired to Ferriss’s compositions.
RIGHT — Single images that compose the strip and some screenshots from 3D development.
Level Design
Creative visualization for gaming
We specialize in 3d illustration for the video game industry, providing 3d environments and level design.
KEYWORDS #3d-illustration #gaming #level-design #3d-environment #location
CASINO LEGEND ▾
Illustration map for
Eurobet / Bit Communication
GAME MAP of Casino Legend, a Eurobet adventure to cross 40 different locations.
#level design #3D painting #post-production
CLIENT
Bit Communication / Eurobet
CREDITS
The 3D locations that compose the whole map were developed in teamwork with 3D Artist Alberto Blasi. The game development involved many professionals and teams under the art direction of Eolo Perfido.
DETAILS taken from the 12.000px extended game map
ABOVE some studies and 3D draft of the 40 game locations developed to compose the World of Garum
BREAKDOWN of 3d sculpting and procedural modeling for the level design
ABARICO is a 3d game location hanging on the air. In physics, the name means every point where Earth's gravitational force and lunar force cancel each other out.
CLAY RENDERS and screenshots taken during the process of 3d modeling
BEFORE AND AFTER, from 3d sculpting to final model with textures
Exhibition
Venice Architecture Biennale
Using a gaming language and approach, we crafted a mental map to represent the relationship between therapy and the architectural environment.
> Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, Italian Pavilion, Arsenale — JUNE-NOVEMBER 2021
KEYWORDS #biennale #venice #arsenale #padiglioneItalia #illustration-map
CREDITS ▾
Research made in cooperation with
Antonino di Raimo / University of Portsmouth
ILLUSTRATION WALL — 10m long, mounted inside Italian Pavilion.
BREAKDOWN of the visual development for the illustrated 3D map
ARSENALE — Italian Pavilion, JUNE-NOV. 2021
Personal Exhibition
Il Disegno Plurale
Atelier Crilo’s works exhibited at Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea ai Molini
Portogruaro (Venezia) — Curated by Marco Pasian
KEYWORDS #interazioniaimolini #solo-exhibition #drawings #notebooks #luoghiditransito
LINK ▾
Leggi testi in catalogo di
April 10, 2022 → May 22, 2022
With the patronage of Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori di Venezia
L’esposizione si articola nei due storci Mulini di Portogruaro, oggi sede della Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea Ai Molini
Personal Exhibition
Paesaggi Ibridi
Atelier Crilo’s drawings, watercolors, and video exhibited in Catania for #Futuramemoria
Curated by Salvatore D’Agostino with the art direction of Salvatore Gozzo
KEYWORDS #sicilcima #futuramemoria #solo-exhibition #drawings #etna #watercolors
ETNA, SITE SPECIFIC WORK OF MOUNT ETNA — Digital coloring on a handmade sketch
OPENING — Sicilcima, Viale Africa 42
FUTURA MEMORIA ▾
The exhibition Paesaggi Ibridi presents the work of Atelier Crilo, which stands out in Italy for the innovation of drawing techniques in visual and creative design. Operating between hand drawing and computer drawing, the Studio defines new landscapes, hybrids used as a means to find new architectural spatiality and that redefine the concept of landscape, by its nature never static but in continuous evolution between past and future.
The exhibition and a lecture by the Studio inaugurated Futura Memoria, curated by the architect and blogger Salvatore D'Agostino, a cultural program born under the artistic direction of Salvatore Gozzo and produced by SicilCima at the new store in viale Africa 42 in Catania, as a container of events, culture, and innovation.
November 2015
EXHIBITION and lecture at Sicilcima space
Drawing
Architectural watercolors
We developed the digital watercolor technique mainly to re-create suggestive drawings with a smooth and straight-line workflow, able to be replicated by students during our teaching sessions on architectural representation.
The numerous articles and making of based on the originally post by Ronen Bekerman are still today a very engaging content online, translated in several languages and webzines.
LINK ▾
Article for Ronen Bekerman
BREAKDOWN of digital brushes and handmade drawings
RENDERING merged with digital painting
COLLECTION of pencils and black ink drawings, watercolors handmade, and mixed media
Data visualization
Illustrations and cover art
Oltre il senso del luogo
Data visualization for the report promoted by Salvatore D’Agostino on Wilfing Architettura.
To bring this report to life, we looked to the B-side of a vinyl record. This metaphor represents the voice of self-produced and spontaneous culture of architects bloggers, who are asked two simple questions:
Who is the well-known architect you appreciate and why?
Who is the unknown architect you appreciate and why?
Continue on WA
ILLUSTRATION SERIES with 3D data extruded
BIENNIALS MAP for Domus magazine n. 952
BOOK COVER for La fine dell’invecchiamento by D Editore
INTERSECTIONS. Coast to cross, 6 chances of making the city
FOLIO INTERSECTIONS ▾
Coast to coast, 6 chances of making the city. The illustration shows the results of Intersections, an international architecture workshop to find new design solutions for the coastline — with its most representative city districts and buildings — in relation to the urban context of Catania.
Illustration for SicilCima
Guest editor: Wilfing Architettura
FOLIO by Sicilcima, printed paper sent by mail