Backgrounds | London, UK | Chiara Sgatti, Illustrator & Animator

Miscellaneous

Short Animations

London, UK. 2019-present

Some background designes I created for some very short animations I create during my spare time.

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The Thing

I Left Behind

Short Animation

London, UK. 2017-2018

Backgrounds from my RCA final year short The Thing I Left Behind, two points of view clashing, a nostalgic, terminally ill patient, against a cold and pragmatic robot caretaker.

The environment has been modelled in 3D first, and then, using different lenses depending on the feeling I wanted to convey, I rendered each shot and painted on top of it with Photoshop.

Written and Directed by: Chiara Sgatti

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, future city sci-fi

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, memories1

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, memories2

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, luxurious bedroom

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, luxurious bathroom

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, tv is my life

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, robot caretaker

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, luxurious gym

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, bedroom and baseball

The Thing I Left Behind,digital painting, 2d animation, background, gym and tv

The Thing I Left Behind, 3D modelling, rhinoceros, background, bathroom

The Thing I Left Behind, 2D animation, background, bathroom

The Thing I Left Behind, 2D animation, background, steamy bahroom

The White Spot

Short Animation

London, UK. 2016-2017

What is death?
A young woman is facing her first loss, and she desperately tries to understand what is means when someone ceases to exist, what she is supposed to do, to feel, how she is supposed to live from now on.

My RCA first year short, The White Spot is about making sense of death, the paradox of memories, immortality and grieving.

Written and Directed by: Chiara Sgatti

Animation: Chiara Sgatti

Sound design and Voice: Agnese Banti

The White Spot, complemetary colours, background, 2D animation, airplane belt

The White Spot, 2D animation, background, plane

The Rabbit Foot

Flashback Sequence

London, UK 2018

Under the auspices of a mystical rabbit's foot, the fortunes of a card-shark, an uncivilised brute and a luckless prospector intertwine with fatal consequences in this pitch-dark comic fable set against the backdrop of 1850s America.

Directors: Charlie Brafman, Magnus Erland McCullagh
Writers: Charlie Brafman, Magnus Erland McCullagh
Stars: Angus Wright, Kevin Horsham, Farren Morgan
Animation: Chiara Sgatti
Production Co: Strange Lightning

The Rabbit's Foot, Background, digital & ink, tavern, spaghetti western, gritty, dark

The Rabbit's Foot, , taberna desert, hot, lonely, Background, digital & ink, desert and blood

[O]

Short Animation

London, UK. 2015-2017

Trailer from the short animation [O], an endless dance among the fantastic nature of a strange planet and its peculiar sounds.

Director and Animator: Chiara Sgatti and Mario Radev

Background Design: Chiara Sgatti

Sound design: Antonio Quiroga Waldthaler

[O], background, plant, tree, fanstastic planet, alien, surreal, digial painting & pencil, from a tree

[O], background, leaves, fantastic planet, alien, surreal, digial painting & pencil, forest

[O], ominous, desert, flag, surreal, background, digial painting & pencil, golf

[O], surreal, long shot, environment, fantastic planet, alien, background, digial painting & pencil, the wall

[O], surreal, fantastic planet, alien, rocks, vegetation, background, digial painting & pencil, carnivorous plant

[O], background, surreal, fantastic planet, alien, trap, jar, plant, digial painting & pencil, clay jar

[O], magical, ominous, surreal, fantasti planet, alien,landscape, high shot, background, digial painting & pencil, circle in the desert

Thatching Eggs

Short Animation

London, UK. 2019

A background I made to be put in the very back of a 3D animation, as a matte painting.

Made in Photoshop.

Directed by: Max Marlow

Background design: Chiara Sgatti

matte painting, victorian style, victoria, islington, london, residential, 3d animation, background, perspective

matte painting, victorian style, victoria, islington, london, residential, 3d animation, background, perspective, sketch, rough, draft

matte painting, victorian style, victoria, islington, london, residential, 3d animation, background, perspective, rough, draft, sketch

matte painting, victorian style, victoria, islington, london, residential, 3d animation, background

Khol De Raaste

Music Video

London, UK. 2016

An endless getaway within a city led to destruction by war, the wish for the borders to be open again. The animation has been shown at the live events on September 2017 in London organised by the independent artists book press 'As Yet Untitled'.

Band: Side Partition

Animation: Chiara Sgatti

Khol De Raaste, Digital, digital painting, destruction, war zone, long shot, background, destroied city

war zone, surreal, trench, long shot, Khol De Raaste, Digital, background, war

Khol De Raaste, surreal, city, war zone, Digital, background, destroied city2

Khol De Raaste, war zone, trench, Digital, background, the border

Khol De Raaste, war zone, destruction, Digital, background, city

Freedom Cake

Fake Spot

London, UK, Texas, USA 2018

I have been producing a fake spot for a fictional cake, to be inserted in the feature film Fat Ass Zombies, directed by George Bennett, produced by Magic Bullet Media.

Director: George Bennett

Animation: Chiara Sgatti

freedom cake, 2d animation, cartoony, fat ass zombies, horror, spot, advertise, ad, cake, sweet, desert, america

freedom cake, cartoony, fat ass zombies, horror, spot, advertise, ad, cake, sweet, american , food, aubergine, 2d animation

freedom cake, 2d animation, cartoony, fat ass zombies, horror, spot, advertise, ad, cake, sweet, american, kitchen, fridge

freedom cake, cartoony, 2d animation, fat ass zombies, horror, spot, advertise, ad, cake, sweet, american, bomb, radioactive, waste, poop, fly, disgusting

freedom cake, 2d animation, cartoony, spoiled kid, fat ass zombies, horror, spot, advertise, ad, cake, sweet, american, birthday, carrot as a cake

Under the mountain,

over the sea

Background design

London, UK. 2015

Background designs for the short animation Under the mountain, over the sea, a university project for my second year at the London College of Communication.

Materials and software used:

- watercolours

- pencil

- Photoshop CS6

Under the Mountain over the Sea, background, hand made watercolours and digital, watercolors, zen, the path to the mountain

Under the Mountain over the Sea, background, hand made watercolours and digital, wooden cabin, room, nature, bonsai, zen, zen cabin

Under the Mountain over the Sea, background, , house, england, london, uk, watercolors, hand made watercolours and digital, london room

Under the Mountain over the Sea, , nature, bamboo, wood, scrolls, ink, background, hand made watercolours and digital, zen room

Outside the Box

Background design, digital painting

London, UK. 2014

Background designs for a collaboration with the animator Brenton Myerscough.

Director and Animator: Brenton Myerscough

Background design: Chiara Sgatti

Outside the box, halftones, comics, perspective, metropoly, city, digital, cartoony, comics, 2d animation, background, alley