CGI Artist Services

Here is how this works in practice. Italy's CGI talent pool has matured around a clearly defined set of site-grade pipelines. EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani in Milan and Rome handled the heavy CGI lift on Garrone's Pinocchio, Sorrentino's The Hand of God, and the Suburra and Gomorra series for Netflix and Sky Italia.

Here is the short of it. Rainbow CGI in Loreto built Italy's largest CG animation pipeline behind Winx and Mermaid Magic, while Maga Animation Studio in Milan, Mondo TV, Frame By Frame, Chromatica, Direct2Brain, and Post Atomic each run production-grade Maya, Houdini, Nuke, V-Ray, Arnold, and Redshift pipelines aligned with global vendor specs.

Here is the breakdown. Our network includes artists who actually sat inside those facilities for the credited shows — character TDs from the Pinocchio creature department, environment leads from Rome and Naples-set series, hard-surface modellers from automotive commercials shot through Mercurio Milan, and lookdev artists fluent in ACES and the OCIO config used by EDI and Mercurio when handing CGI plates into global DI suites at Cinecittà DI and Lumiq.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Selection runs against your pipeline first, your shot count second. We open every brief with the toolchain you and your VFX supervisor have already locked — Maya or Houdini for assets, Nuke or Fusion for comp, ftrack or Shotgun for production tracking — and present artists who can drop into that pipeline without reconfiguring.

Here is how the picture comes together. For broadcast and streaming shows tied to Rai, Mediaset, Sky Italia, or global SVOD vendors, we confirm TPN-aligned data handling, encrypted vendor handoff, and turnover ALE/CDL ingest against the dailies workflow your edit has set in Rome or Milan. For commercials, we stage artists who can iterate at the agency tempo of Tortona and Brera while holding lookdev parity with the live-action plate. Our CGI roster works fluently in English and Italian, holds CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo or freelance VAT-regime contracts depending on engagement, and ships work that survives the David di Donatello and Venice Film Festival exhibition path our DPs and supervisors actually deliver into.