Chiara Sgatti
Traditional Animator and Illustrator
Miscellaneous
Short Animations
London, UK. 2019-present
Some background designes I created for some very short animations I create during my spare time.
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 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 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
[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](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_6b217d4f199d49fa88407aa6c021c121~mv2_d_4655_3288_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_982,h_694,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_6b217d4f199d49fa88407aa6c021c121~mv2_d_4655_3288_s_4_2.jpg)
![[O], background, leaves, fantastic planet, alien, surreal, digial painting & pencil, forest](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_73c83a5f89664210b4aff4401d6e3f4e~mv2_d_1920_1300_s_2.png/v1/fill/w_978,h_662,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_73c83a5f89664210b4aff4401d6e3f4e~mv2_d_1920_1300_s_2.png)
![[O], ominous, desert, flag, surreal, background, digial painting & pencil, golf](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_c901e3510ee342248911fd3958c6946a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_978,h_550,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_c901e3510ee342248911fd3958c6946a~mv2.jpg)
![[O], surreal, long shot, environment, fantastic planet, alien, background, digial painting & pencil, the wall](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_f8077d07b01d4e4789510ed15647a6b4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_978,h_550,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_f8077d07b01d4e4789510ed15647a6b4~mv2.jpg)
![[O], surreal, fantastic planet, alien, rocks, vegetation, background, digial painting & pencil, carnivorous plant](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_379fe42bb7de40a48479848f57c338ad~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_978,h_550,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_379fe42bb7de40a48479848f57c338ad~mv2.png)
![[O], background, surreal, fantastic planet, alien, trap, jar, plant, digial painting & pencil, clay jar](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_b5dafded619047e0924d32eddb7bb8a4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_978,h_550,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_b5dafded619047e0924d32eddb7bb8a4~mv2.jpg)
![[O], magical, ominous, surreal, fantasti planet, alien,landscape, high shot, background, digial painting & pencil, circle in the desert](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/65845b_f75620931ec841a7a37baa20d239d739~mv2_d_4754_2674_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_978,h_550,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/65845b_f75620931ec841a7a37baa20d239d739~mv2_d_4754_2674_s_4_2.jpg)
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
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
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
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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
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
