The song is called “La Città Fantasma”, written by Andrea Pandolfo and performed by Out Of Tune.

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Now you can communicate with a great range of objects. With the fake post-natural fat key of the steak purchased in the subway kiosk, you can tell to the person who produced it that your electronic dog preferred to remain fasting.

Yet, it’s very little. Little, in terms of Universal History, I mean.

I work – as you all know – underground in the City of the Elderly n.38, in the Desert.
The desert is an unbearable place. The City of the Elderly is static and monotonous. Living underground is depressing, above all for you: administrative managerial and strong little robots who work in such a bright skyscraper.

And yet under that incandescent ground, lilting by unsteady steps, dusty documents attest stories of the city that are carried on the shoulders of the old men of the city.

An archivist has a soul. An archivist who works with the cards has a real one, not made of paper – as I have heard from someone – but is flammable. So do not giggle, or the fire increases, I get nervous!… and an elderly and frustrated archivist has all the world’s histories on his side.”

Extract from the lesson of Doctor Spittgard “Archives in the course of TIME –NON-Yo-Yo-Fe”

“Either you try!”, my alter ego of the last show would say that.

I represent the fictitious stories that take form in this forgotten town, in the desert, in the Nonexistent.

Please, Take a ringside seat and pay close attention! Do not chat! I could stop playing at the slightest hint of disturbance. My dear I’ve often done that. I was hated for that. I’ve stopped entire shows and received loud boos from stupid beings! Riffraff!

Under no circumstances I never retraced my steps. I stayed in the dressing room, drinking post-natural hot chocolate and reading an useless fashion magazine – or reading that newspaper on the latest electronic animals.

Of course, the isolation of this city does not help me at all. By now I love to perform in front of the mirror even more than in front of an audience. It didn’t happened until the first adolescent crisis!

This City of the Elderly acts silently ‘on everyone … “

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Scene #016 storyboard and colour key by Marco Carloni.
Music by King Crimson, obviously.

Scene #018 storyboard by Marco Carloni.
Music by Thelonious Monk.

Before working on the real storyboards and on their color key, the graphic designers and game designers must first use their imagination.

This is known as the sketching process.

The sketches shown below were made ​​by Sor Carloni while we described the scenes to him for the very first time.

The wise finger or fingerart is the perfect synthesis of our bizarre waffles.

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I still have, kept in my lockers, drawings of almost 18 years ago.

Some sheets has become yellow, in others the low-quality ink is evaporated and in others some tiny animal made is den.

Time put to test this thin sheets of paper, I remember many ways to avoid this problems existed… protective sprays, glass frames, oiled-base varnish, plasticization, and the unfailing “mom’s hair lacquer” for fixing pencils and charcoals.

Today physical materials are more and more used in the first phases of creation of an illustration, and usually the colouring is entirely digitally made.

This have brought two great advantages: first, the work won’t “get old” with time and his looking in 1000 years will be the same of the day it has been created (some restorer will already have lifted up his eyebrow).

The other one is moms won’t live anymore in terror of have their hair-set compromised by a suddenly empty bottle of hair lacquer when an important event is near.

So, confirming is binary nature, a digital file exists (1) or not (0).

What you’re going to see after these few lines it’s a slideshow of progressive savings made during the work on the 2 illustrations of our main character, Nando, and the most bearded of his companions, Nelson.

Original Character design and linearts by the never-enough praised Deon de Lange.

Enjoy them, and see you soon to show you something with an extra dimension.

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