Luca Deriu

Current

Manager and Creative Director at PlaySys
Teacher of 3D for realtime and videogames at NABA Milano

Past

3dsMax Technical Author at Hoepli
3D Artist at Nespoli Studio
Designer at Design Network

3d modeler and animator at Mitcom
Employee at De Biasi Automatismi
Designer at Arkema Studio

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Education

NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Enaip Lombardia
ITIS "E.Fermi"

Conservatorio "L.Campiani"

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Luca Deriu’s Summary

Company administrator, technical writer, author, supervisor and videogame animation teacher. Always focused on 3D art, I worked first as Designer for big companies, then as freelance and now, I own my studio (PlaySys) with 11 people.
At PlaySys we work to produce high quality 3D images and animations, using Autodesk's softwares that helps us to do the best.
I worked as author for Hoepli's "3ds Max Design e Architettura" manual for the Italian market and I'm debugging some code of PlaySys videogame project. I work as producer, magazine supervisor and sometime as musician.

Luca Deriu’s Specialties:

production managing, technical direction, 3D art, music composition, negotiation

Luca Deriu’s Experience

Manager and Creative Director

PlaySys

(Entertainment industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

I'm the owner and the Creative Director of PlaySys, one of the finest 3D modeling, rendering, animation and realtime development studio in Milano Italy.

Actually we provide 3D renderings for high quality interiors and we are working on some videogame projects (focused on Microsoft XP, Vista, Seven, XBox360, Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and Nintendo Wii platforms).
Actually 11 people works on different projects at PlaySys, and 24 for our main videogame ("TheDreamers" for Microsoft XBox360 and Seven, see below).
Teacher of 3D for realtime and videogames

NABA Milano

(Education Management industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

I started teaching Machinima (machine animation) at NABA after my 110+Honours Bachelor of Art Thesys on videogames and realtime opportunities.

I teach to my students how to move in this artistic area, giving them informations about Game Engines(mostly Unreal3, Doom3, SandBox2 and Oblivion), Programming, 3D low/high poly, UV Mapping, Texture Painting, Animation, Sound Design and Post production.

I plan to teach how to build machinima animations or demos with a professional engine wich I developed with a French colleague.
3dsMax Technical Author

Hoepli

(Writing and Editing industry)

March 2009 — March 2009 (1 month)

I wrote the italian's technical manual "3dsMax Design e Architettura" for Hoepli, a book of 400 pages about 3D rendering with the Autodesk's cutting edge software.
3D Artist

Nespoli Studio

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

I realized high quality models, textures and renders of interiors, design objects and general architecture.
Designer

Design Network

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

December 2006 — June 2007 (7 months)

We do interior design, architecture, video post production (editing and compositing) and graphic design.
Here I work as Designer and 3d artist for companies as Lavazza, Piquadro and many other around the world.
3d modeler and animator

Mitcom

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

May 2003 — September 2003 (5 months)

We did presentation for Celeste Galleria of Mantova, some web site animation and some architectural/storic reconstructions
Employee

De Biasi Automatismi

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

May 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 5 months)

It was a summer job, i did 2d graphic and 3d visualizations of mechanical pieces
Designer

Arkema Studio

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

March 2003 — June 2003 (4 months)

I did 3d models, rendering and visualization for Moto Guzzi and Ducati (motorbike design) and Scalzapensieri (furniture design).

Luca Deriu’s Education

NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

Bachelor of Arts , Media Design - Videogame Development , 2003 — 2006

I received a 110 + honours BA valutation in Videogame Development thesys

Activities and Societies:

2d graphic, 3d graphic, 2d animation, 3d animation, sound design, video editing, compositing, texture painting and illustration, history of arts, industrial design
Enaip Lombardia

Interior designer , Design and 3D , 2002 — 2003

Interesting and quick course in wich i discovered how to make architectonically "stable" 3d projects

Activities and Societies:

3d with 3dsMax, 2d with Photoshop and Architecture planning with AutoCAD
ITIS "E.Fermi"

Mechanical Engineer , Mechanical and applied phisycs , 1995 — 2002

This path of study gave me a great technical ability and problem solving skills.

Activities and Societies:

Mechanical planning for phisical objects, applied math, physic and fluid dynamics,
technical english and italian
Conservatorio "L.Campiani"

Never ended :( , Orchestral Percussionist , 1998 — 2000

I can analize musics and sounds, I know instruments to use for a music from classica to electronica.
I can read and write music.
Other musical studies and seminaries helped me to understand technical recording, equalizing and mastering tips.

Activities and Societies:

Percussions playing, solfeggio, composition, armonic melodic and rithmic study, piano as complementary instrument