Emilia Gozzano

Bio & CV

Bio & CV

In detail

Skills

3D - Modeling, Blockout, Lighting

Maya
3D modeling, texturing, rendering
Blender
3D modeling, texturing, rendering
Tilt Brush & Quill
VR painting, VR animation
Unity
Blockout, Layout, Lighting
Unreal
Blockout, Layout, Lighting

2D - Illustration, videoediting

Photoshop
Illustration
Premiere Pro
Video editing
Storyboard Pro
Storyboard
Substance
Texturing
After Effects
Blockout, Layout, Lighting

Work experiences

Academy of Fine Arts of Rome

PhD Lecturer - "XR: Virtual, augmented and mixed reality for cultural heritage"

Lecturer for the PhD: "New Technologies for communication, cultural management and teaching of art history: for an immersive and multi-sensory use of Cultural Heritage" by University of Tor Vergata in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome; lecture topic: "XR: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities - possibilities for cultural heritage"
2023, 2024
Exhibition "Raffaello e l'antico" in Rome

AR Artist - 3D modeler

Creation of three AR Instagram filters representing ancient statues together with the colleague Viola Boehm. Work commissioned by Accademia dei Lincei.


2023
Infinite Officine - Milan

Illustrator / Concept Art

Creating eight posters inspired from the ECHO VR characters for the VR Italian League (VRLI)

2022
Showlab Studio - Turin​

Production assistant

Production assistant on the 3D animated series “Klincus Corteccia” (unreleased series). Realization of 3D layout assets, concept art, prop design.
2021
Compagnia di San Paolo

2D Animator

2D animator on the Promotional video for “OPEN - Compagnia di San Paolo

2019
Peephole's Chronicles

Animation Consultant

Counseling for the videogame “Peephole’s Chronicles”


2018

Artist residencies Film markets

GIFF- Geneva, Switzerland

GDM Market - XR Coproduction Sessions

"The Origin of Blindness" was selected for
the XR market at the GIFF - Geneva
International Film Festival (november 2023)
November 2023

Education

Turin, Italy

Bachelor's in Animation at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

2018-2020


Madrid, Spain

NetxLab Generation 3

Full tutoring of VR animated project "The Origin of Blindness" with final presentation in Madrid (NextLab event)
2022-2023
Darmstadt, Germany

Bachelor's in Expanded Realities (XR, VR, AR) at Hochschule Darmstadt




2020-2023
Lovere, Italy

AiRLovere - by Studio Bozzetto & co,
Laboratorio multimediale IULM

Creation of 1 minute long short
animated film ("Jellydream")
2021

Selected awards

Milan, Italy

Filmmaker Film Festival - Rai Cinema VR Channel Award

To the VR experience "Recorda Me", 2023
Munich, Germany

Festival der Zukunft - XR competition New Realities

To the VR experience "The Origin of Blindness", 2023
Sardinia, Italy

Sardinia Film Festival - Official selection

To the animated short film "Jellydream", 2022
Turin, Italy

View Conference Awards - Italian Mix

To the animated short film "Lucerna", 2022
Venice Biennale 74 - Venice, Italy

BookCiak, Azione! Award at Giornate degli autori

To the animated short film - CSC collective film "La memoria nel corpo", 2019

BIOGRAPHY

Emilia Gozzano studied Animation at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia,and graduated with the short animated film “Lucerna”, the first ever made with 2D animated characters and VR Tilt Brush painted environments.

Lucerna won at View Conference the best student movie award and other awards at international Festivals. She directed and realised various short films, such as La Memoria del Corpo, who was co-directed and realised with other CSC colleagues and won the award BookCiak, Azione! at the “Giornate degli Autori – Venice Biennale 76”.

She  worked on the videogame for HTC Vive “Hitmotion Reloaded”, and the 3D/AR (HoloLens) project “Visita alla Cappella di San Sisto a Piacenza”. In June 2021 she was selected for the artist residency AiRLovere by Bruno Bozzetto, where she realized her short film Jellydream.

In January 2023 she was selected for the artist residency NextLab Generation 3 and was amongst the finalists. She collaborated with the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome as PhD Lecturer, and with the Accademia dei Lincei as AR artist for the exhibition “Raffaello e l’antico” in Rome, at Villa Farnesina.

Together with Lorenzo Licitra, she wrote the lyrics of the song Buio for the film “Buio Come il Cuore” (music by David Cerquetti), written by Claudio Masenza, directed by Marco De Luca, and produced by Blue Film SrL.

Curriculum Vitae