Daniele Volpe
- Visual Effects
- Special Effects
- Animation Department
Daniele Volpe is from Marsala, Italy. After over a decade of experience
in network administration and web development in Milan, he moved to Los
Angeles to join the web team at The Gnomon Workshop. Daniele's
background is very technical but he has always had a passion for
photography, design, music and the arts. A few years later he decided
to enroll at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in their two-year,
full-time Digital Production for Entertainment program. He soon
realized that he had just opened Pandora's box.
These became the most creative years of Daniele's life as he was surrounded by talented students and amazing teachers, many of them he sees as "rock stars" in the entertainment industry. After a year in the program he won the BoT (Best of Term) Spring 2011 award for Animation and Visual Effects with a 3D animated scene called "Techs Mechs." During that period he had the opportunity to assist Alex Alvarez and Neville Page with creature animation for major motion pictures. A few months later he was selected alongside other students by Benjamin Grayson (assistant director of "Thor") to work on visual effects shots for his Sci-Fi short "Prodigal" at the Gnomon Studios. Here he had the amazing opportunity to work with Rob Nederhorst, visual effects supervisor of "Thor" and "Captain America." His latest project is "Room 237," a documentary by Rodney Ascher about Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining," which was presented this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
These became the most creative years of Daniele's life as he was surrounded by talented students and amazing teachers, many of them he sees as "rock stars" in the entertainment industry. After a year in the program he won the BoT (Best of Term) Spring 2011 award for Animation and Visual Effects with a 3D animated scene called "Techs Mechs." During that period he had the opportunity to assist Alex Alvarez and Neville Page with creature animation for major motion pictures. A few months later he was selected alongside other students by Benjamin Grayson (assistant director of "Thor") to work on visual effects shots for his Sci-Fi short "Prodigal" at the Gnomon Studios. Here he had the amazing opportunity to work with Rob Nederhorst, visual effects supervisor of "Thor" and "Captain America." His latest project is "Room 237," a documentary by Rodney Ascher about Stanley Kubrick's film "The Shining," which was presented this year at the Sundance Film Festival.