Meet Your Tutors - Lorenzo Mannicia - 2D VFX

Lorenzo Mannicia

Meet Lorenzo Mannicia, one of our newest VFX tutors at Escape Studios, and an experienced 2D VFX artist with skills in compositing and also in matte painting.  

Lorenzo teaches VX4001 - 2D VFX (Compositing) - a 15 Credit Module, to our first year undergraduate students, helping to prepare them on their visual effects journey. 

As well as his experience in VFX, Lorenzo has also contributed to the creation of open source educational software (So.Di.Linux) for students.  

VX4001

VX4001 - 2D VFX (Compositing)

VX4001 - 2D VFX (Compositing) -  is a 15 Credit Module taken by all of our first year undergraduate students, as part of the common first year.  Students learn how to use Nuke, now the industry-standard software for compositing.  You can read more about VX4001 here.

Art Foundation

In Semester One, Lorenzo teaches the mini-module Art Foundation, part of Module CR4002 – Creative Foundations, which forms part of the first year of undergraduate study at Escape Studios. Art Foundation teaches the basics of human anatomy and the fundamentals of environment design.

Lorenzo Mannicia Demo Reel

You can see some of Lorenzo's matte painting work below:

Lorenzo Maniccia - DMP reel 2019 from Lorenzo Maniccia on Vimeo.

Lorenzo Mannicia

Photobash from Art Foundation

"I've been working with the Escape undergraduate students since the very first programme back in September 2016, first as a Studio Assistant and then progressing to a role as 2D VFX tutor for the first year.  

During this time I also had the opportunity to work as a 3D DMP (digital matte painter) at MPC and also undertook a number of freelance assignments.

At university in Italy I studied literature, philosophy, and fine art. Later I realised I was driven to do something more practical and visual, and that's when my adventure with Escape started."

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