Roberto Digiglio

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Roberto Digiglio

Creature & Character Designer · Co-Founder & Creative Director at FutuRats — Turin, Italy

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Italian concept designer specializing in creatures and characters for film, television and games, designing directly in 3D. Creature designer on A Minecraft Movie for Aaron Sims Creative; designer of the horned ones of The Gryphon (Amazon Prime Video), built as prosthetics by Millennium FX; 3D lead designer of SYMBIOSIS, Special Jury Award at IDFA DocLab 2021. Co-founder and creative director of FutuRats since 2023. Teaches concept design and art production workflows at AIV (Accademia Italiana Videogiochi).

Credits

  1. 2025A Minecraft Movie — FilmCreature Designer, Aaron Sims Creative
  2. 2025Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector — Video GameCreative Director, FutuRats
  3. 2023The Gryphon — TV SeriesCreature & Character Designer, W&B Television
  4. 2022Batora: Lost Haven — Video GameFreelance 3D Character Artist, Stormind Games
  5. 2022Symbiosis — VR Experience3D Lead Designer, Polymorf
  6. 2019Monster Energy Supercross 2 — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  7. 2018RIDE 3 — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  8. 2018MXGP PRO — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  9. 2018MotoGP 18 — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  10. 2018Monster Energy Supercross — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  11. 2018Gravel — Video GameLighting & VFX Artist, Milestone
  12. 2017Voodoo — Video GameLead Artist & Art Director, Brain in the Box

Experience

  1. 2023 — PresentCo-Founder & Creative Director — FutuRats, TurinCreative direction of original and licensed IPs · Creative Director of Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector — Deeds of the Fallen (Slitherine, 2025)
  2. 2019 — PresentFreelance Creature & Character Designer — Roberto Digiglio, TurinConcept design · Modeling / sculpting · Texturing
  3. 2021 — PresentFreelance Character Designer — Aaron Sims Creative, RemoteCharacter and creature design for film, advertising and more
  4. 2021 — 2022Freelance Creature Designer — PUBG Corporation, RemoteCreature design
  5. 2021Freelance Character & Creature Designer — W&B Television, RemoteAmazon Prime Video series “Der Greif” / “The Gryphon”
  6. 2020 — 20213D Lead Designer — Polymorf, NetherlandsCreature, character and environment design · IDFA Special Jury Award for Creative Technology
  7. 2019 — 2020Freelance 3D Character Artist — Stormind Games · Game Atelier · Share Creators · One O One Games and many others, RemoteHigh-poly sculpting, retopology, low-poly modeling, texturing
  8. 2017 — 2019Lighting & VFX Artist — Milestone, Milan3D art, assistant art direction, lighting, VFX, post-production
  9. 2014 — 2017Co-Founder, Lead Artist & Art Director — Brain in the Box, CavallermaggioreArt direction, technical art, 3D art
  10. TeachingConcept design & art production workflows for games and CGI — AIV, Accademia Italiana Videogiochi

Recognition

  1. 2023SXSW — SYMBIOSIS selected for the XR Experience Spotlight
  2. 2023Autodesk Arnold — The Scavenger — featured artwork
  3. 20233Dconnexion — Alien of the Depths — commissioned artwork
  4. 20223D World, issue 288 — SYMBIOSIS — Multibody Creature published
  5. 2021IDFA DocLab — SYMBIOSIS — Special Jury Award for Creative Technology
  6. 20203DTotal — Triturus Profundis — Excellence Award
  7. 20193DTotal — Cancericatus Fluvialitis — Excellence Award
  8. 20193DTotal — Doctor Octopus — Excellence Award

Skills

Creature Design · Character Design · Digital Sculpting · Concept Art · 3D Modeling · Creature Modeling · Character Modeling · High- and Low-poly Modeling · Retopology · PBR Texturing · Digital Painting · Lighting · VFX · Creative Direction

Software

ZBrush · 3ds Max · Maya · Photoshop · V-Ray · KeyShot · Arnold · 3DCoat · Mari · Substance 3D Painter · Marvelous Designer · Quixel Suite · TopoGun · UVLayout · xNormal · Unreal Engine · Unity · Marmoset Toolbag · Sketchfab · After Effects

Roberto Digiglio — Turin, Italy — P.IVA IT12017090015