Selected work 2026

What the studio ships

Nine pieces, from a hand-drawn magazine feature to a plugin: the drawing and the finished frame side by side, and the systems we built to make them.

Selected pieces

We always start with art and craft

We take tools for what they are, not as the final solution.

01Illustration · editorial

Drawn by hand, printed on paper

Editorial illustration for newsstand monthly: botanical and lifestyle features. Everything here begins as a drawing on paper: line, weight and composition settled by hand and digitally finished. That craft is what makes the faster tools behave. Each style can also be trained into a model, so a brand keeps one consistent look across everything it makes.

A magazine feature as printed, with a step-by-step botanical illustration
Pencil drawing of two frogs, line only
The same two frogs finished in colour, with texture and light
Illustration in a watercolour style
Illustration in a character style
Illustration in a flat vector style

Drawn by hand, as published.

02Animation & character

One animation, many looks

Flat, frame-based animation built in After Effects. We ran some of these clips through our own plugin and restyled them into felt, flannel and claymation looks, among others. The same animation, finished a dozen different ways.

Same timing, same drawing. Only the finish changes.

03Branded video · end to end

Storyboard to screen

Written, designed and animated. The board is drawn by hand, before anything is generated: this settles framing, rhythm and casting. The finished film follows it.

The hand-drawn storyboard: two scenes, eight shots, with camera notes in red
The same eight shots as finished frames from the film

Drag the handle. The same eight shots, drawn and then finished, in the same order.

04Branded video · 2022

The same process, on traditional way

A promotional video for AddLance, made in 2022. Written, boarded, designed and animated the way motion design has always been made.

The AddLance promotional video: a phone showing a map of Italy drawn in stars

Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press play.

Made for AddLance in 2022. Traditional motion design.

05Case study · social

Four stills, one film

A set of still creatives for a moving company turned into a vertical short for social media. Photographs never move: what moves is built on top of them with professional editing and motion design.

Still creative: a hand holding a washing machine
Still creative: a hand lifting a parquet floor
Still creative: a hand holding a sofa
Still creative: a hand holding a fridge

The four stills above, the finished vertical below. Fifteen seconds.

06Custom models · since 2023

In house style, trained

Hand-drawn character sets become the training data for a custom image model. It learns one consistent style, then generates new, on-brand illustrations on demand. One of these models has been running a blog since 2023.

Hand-drawn character from the training set
Hand-drawn character from the training set
Hand-drawn character from the training set
Hand-drawn character from the training set
Two new characters generated by the trained model, in the same house style

Few example of hand-drawn training set above, the generated output below. The drawings are ours, used as input to create the model.

07Generative pipelines · 2023–2026

Verticalised, early

Production pipelines we designed and prototyped ahead of the curve, built for precise, controllable output and to cut the cost of physical sets and rendering.

Generated 3D scene: a small owl on a stone slab in a desert

3D generation

2023

Cinematic renders in minutes, not hours.

A chair rendered with a pink fur finish, in a snowy setting

Product personalisation

2024

Any finish, colour or setting from one photo.

A landscape restyled as a painting, brushwork consistent across the frame

Image & video stylisation

2025

Any photo or clip restyled, frame consistent.

The node graph of a content automation pipeline, agents wired to storage and delivery

Content automation

2025–2026

AI agents that run the repetitive production work.

08Product · JustAE

AI video, inside your editor

A plugin we built in 2026. It puts a generative video layer right in the timeline, not in another browser tab. It runs in After Effects, with our open-source core and a Pro edition for studios: marker interpolation across layers in batch, storyboards built from placeholders already in the composition, and versioned output organized and named professionally.

The JustAE product site

Two flows, one panel. The pitch, in thirty-seven seconds.

09Labs · generative animation

Illustration, in motion

These frames come from a video that starts as our own drawing and our own idea. AI makes it real, then we animate it. Labs is where things get tried before they become tools.

Frame from the generative animation: profile, hair in colour
Frame from the generative animation: the colour field at full spread

Drawing first, generation second, animation third.

Portfolio

Selected Work 2026, as a PDF

The studio presentation as one file, to forward or to print. No viewer, no login.

Selected Work 2026, as a PDF

2026 motion design and AI work for broadcasters, brands and cultural institutions.

Systems

The tools behind the work

Four systems built for our own production. Two of them are open to anyone; two run inside the studio.

Delivery

Formats and terms

Broadcast

SD · HD · 4K

Social

9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9

Revisions

Rounds set in the estimate

Languages

Italian · English · Spanish

Work

Tell us what you have to produce

The brief, the deadline and the formats it has to come out in. If a part of it is better made by hand than generated, we say so.