Gianluca Fratellini

Gianluca Fratellini was born in 1980 in Modugno, a little village near Bari in Puglia, Italy. His career in 3D animation actually started at the early age of 14 during high school years and without privileged access to a personal computer.

He started his professional career in Luxembourg where he worked for Oniria Pictures on his first TV series "Bob's Beach" and two animated feature films "Tristan & Isolde" and "Renart the Fox".

He worked at Ubisoft in Montrèal, Canada, as 3D Senior Animator and Layout Supervisor in the Cinematic’s department of games such as "Splinter Cell", "Prince of Persia", "Rainbow Six", "Far Cry", "Assassin's Creed", "And 1", "Surf's up" and many more. He also worked in England as 3D Senior Animator at Climax for the cinematic game's of "Overlord" and "Silent Hill - Origins".

He has also been a 3D animation teacher - Level II at the Campus of Ubisoft organized by Cegep of Matane in Quebec and he is a teacher in advanced animation at Animum School in Spain.

He had a prolific career in the film industry, including working for companies such as:

• Animal Logic in Sydney,
• Ilion Animation Studios in Madrid,
• Double Negative in London
• Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver (Canada)
• Blue Sky Studios in New York
• Framestore in London
• Mikros Animation Studio
• MPC in London
• TRIXTER in Germany
• ILM - Industrial Light & Magic in London

In the meantime he worked as 3D Lead Animator and Supervisor for a spot of La Biennale the “76° International Festival of the Cinema of Venice 2019” for the entire animation of the 3d Lion, several commercials for MPC and SWISS and his shortfilms: "A Bug's Story" - "Life in Smoke - Una Vita in Fumo" and working (as of August 2021) on a new short-film.

As of August 2021, he worked in London as 3D Animation Supervisor for Double Negative on the animated project “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and at the moment is working in MPC with Robert Zemeckis for the Walt Disney feature "Pinocchio" as 3D Lead Animator.