Name: Francesco Paduano

Date of Birth: March 01, 1972

Location: Naples, Italy

His passion for digital art started in 1984 using a simple PC as MSX, later on he moved to commodore 64 and Amiga, home computers, feeling that computer graphics were the new expression method and thorough knowledge of the subject, would help him in his career.
In 1990 he got a degree as Art Teacher (at National Arts Institute).
In 1992 he became specialist in interior design (at National Arts Institute).
In 1994 he is Art director for N.L. Publishing.
In 1997 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics and the cinematic animations in Syyrah The Warp Hunter for Pixelstorm.
In 1998 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics for Puma Street Soccer for Sony Playstation and PC intel versions for Pixelstorm s.a.s., Sunsoft Europe, Infogrames Distribution and Puma.
In 1999 he worked on the 2D-3D graphics for Chris Kamara Street Soccer for Sony Playstation and Color Gameboy versions for Pixelstorm.
In 2000 he’s one of founders of Raylight Studios srl an italian games developer company where he’s the Artists Supervisor.
In the Raylight he worked on the most popular game titles for Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Sony PS1, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii and PC.
To day he work in the Raylight managment Staff and in freelance works as a professional in the graphic field and computer graphic (both 2D and 3D).

Area(s) of expertise: Modeling, Animation, Rigging, Lighting, Illustration, Compositing, Editing, Texturing Preferred tools: 3ds Max, Maya, After Effects, Fusion, Photoshop, VRay, ZBrush, Mudbox

Experience:

Co-Founder - Lead Artists at Raylight Srl

Computer Games industry

October 1999 – Present (10 years 10 months)

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Speedball 2 - Wanadoo Edition
Superman: Countdown to Apokolips - Infogrames
Wings Advance - Metro 3D
Wing Commander Prophecy - Electronic Arts
R-type III: The Third Lightning - Destination Software
Lego Knight Kingdom - THQ
Hot Wheels Stunt Track Challenge - THQ
Smashing Drive - Namco
Spiderman: The movie 2 - Activision
Ozzy & Drix - Midway
Street Racing Syndicate - Namco
Big Mutha Truckers - Destination Software

Nintendo DS

Big Mutha Truckers - Destination software
My Little Baby - DTP young
Train your Senses - DTP young

Sony PS1
Chris Kamara’s Street Soccer

Sony PSP

Hot Wheels Ultimate Racing - Mattel/Destination Software

Nintendo Wii

Free Running - Reef Entertainment
Sniper Elite

PC

Syyrah the Wrap Hunter
Puma Street Soccer
Free Running - Reef Entertainment