| LAURA CONGIU - CURRICULUM VITAE |
| PERSONAL DATA | Born in Cagliari in 1983 Based in Cagliari Italian nationality |
| CONTACT | congiula@gmail.com |
| CURRENT OCCUPATION | ||
| Freelance comic artist / illustrator / digital colorist | ||
| 2007 - present | Centro Internazionale del Fumetto di Cagliari (Cagliari's International Comic Center) |
CG for comics teacher in the courses organized periodically by the association Collaborator for activities and event ("NUES" festival) |
| 2015 - present | Libellus | Digital coloring for the covers drawn by Roberto de Angelis exclusively for "Nathan Never"'s Croatian edition |
| PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES | ||
| 2004-2012 | Multimedia studio “Shibuya Vision” (previously "Uzzupink Studio") | Illustrator, storyboarder, character/concept designer, animator |
| PUBLISHED AND COMMISSIONED WORKS | ||
| 2018 | Festival NUES | Illustration and graphic design for the festival's billboard and other promotional printed materials |
| 2017 | Tunué | Drawings, colors and lettering for pages 42-53, 68-76, 79-83 and endpapers for the graphic novel "Badù e il nemico del sole (Badù and the enemy of the sun)" (story by Francesca Ceci and Christian B. Bouah, drawings by Laura Congiu, Stefania Costa, Gabriele Peddes and Stefania Potito) |
| 2016 | I fumetti di Nues | Digital coloring for the comic "I custodi del golfo (The guardians of the gulf)" (story by Bepi Vigna, drawings by Stefania Costa) |
| Grafiche Ghiani Edizioni | Digital coloring (with the collaboration of Stefania Costa) for the graphic novel “Dimonios – La leggenda della Brigata Sassari (Dimonios - The legend of the Sassari Brigade)" (story by Bepi Vigna, drawings by Gildo Atzori) | |
| 2015 | Karel Produzioni for Sardegna Film Commission | Storyboard and digital art for the animations for the audiovisual project “Foglietto – le avventure di un bambino di carta (Foglietto - The adventures of a paper boy)” |
| Associazione DonnaCeteris | Illustrations for the 1st and 3rd chapters of the book “Ti amo da (farti) morire (I love you to (your) death)” (published by Arkadia) | |
| Festival NUES | Digital coloring for the illustration created by Roberto de Angelis for the event's poster and fliers | |
| Karel Produzioni for GAL Anglona Romangia | Part of the drawings + digital coloring and elaboration for the illustrations in the audiovisual project “Janas” | |
| 2014 | CSV Sardegna Solidale | Digital coloring for four posters for the social campaign “Cambia Musica – Scegli di essere un volontario (Change music - Choose to be a volunteer)” (drawings by Stefania Costa) |
| Periodici San Paolo | Digital coloring for the comic "Tobia e l'oceano capovolto (Tobia and the upside down ocean)" (story and drawings by Otto Gabos), publihed on the magazine "Super G" | |
| Internazionale dei Comics | Story, art and lettering for "Ogni notte (Every night)", realized for the vampire-themed short comic stories collection "Linee di sangue (Blood lines)" | |
| Associazione DonnaCeteris | Digital coloring for the short comic “Fine di una fiaba (End of a fairytale)” (story by Bepi Vigna, pencils by Stefania Costa, inking by Ilio Leo), published on the newspaper “L'Unione Sarda” and re-printed for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | |
| 2013 | L'Unione Sarda | Art, digital coloring and lettering for the comic book "La congiura degli avvocati (The lawyers' conspiracy)" (plot by Bepi Vigna, script by Giorgio Figus); part of the series "Storia della Sardegna a fumetti (History of Sardinia comic books)" |
| 2012 | Studio Shibuya Vision for E-talentbank Japan | Illustration for New Year's Day "nengajo" postcard |
| Studio Shibuya Vision for Team Starwood Costa Smeralda | llustrations for the fantasy book for children “Esmeralda – I giganti di pietra (Esmeralda - the rock giants)” (story by Emanuele Cantoni, published by R. Balzano) | |
| 2011 | Studio Shibuya Vision for Team Starwood Costa Smeralda | llustrations for the fantasy book for children "Esmeralda - I quattro regni dell'isola magica (Esmeralda - the four kingdoms of the magic island)" (story by Paolo Zucca, published by R. Balzano) |
| Studio Shibuya Vision for E-talentbank Japan | Illustration for the short movie “A wor(l)d for Japan” | |
| Studio Shibuya Vision for Peter Marcias | Art direction, character/concept design, storyboard, drawings and digital coloring for the animated sequences in the movie "I bambini della sua vita (The children of his life)" | |
| Studio Shibuya Vision for SCP/RAC - Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production | Character design and drawings for the animations of the three short movies series "Moving towards a future free of Persistent Organic Pollutants" | |
| 2010 | Studio Shibuya Vision | Character design and character animations for the short movie “Un piccolo gesto (A small act)” (Jury prize and 2nd Community prize winner in the "Robur" contest on the website Zooppa.it, and selected for “Best of Zooppa Italia 2010”) |
| 2008 | Rizzoli Lizard | Digital coloring (together with Maria Marino) for the comic book "Banana Football Club" (story and drawings by Otto Gabos) |
| Casterman | Digital coloring for the graphic novel "Esperanto" (story and drawings by Otto Gabos; published in Italy by Black Velvet in 2009) | |
| 2006 | Hybris Comics | Digital coloring for the online comic “Vita di Nedo Hermill (Nedo Hermill's life)" (story by Bepi Vigna, drawings by Otto Gabos, for the short comic stories collection “Hybris Jam”) |
| Hybris Comics | Digital coloring for the online comic “Gli amanti di Alphaville (prima parte) (The Alphaville lovers - part one)” (story by Bepi Vigna, drawings by Nicola Mari) | |
| 2005 | Condaghes | Cover and illustrations for the book for children "Zuck, lupo sdentato (Zuck, toothless wolf)", by Graziella Monni |
| 2004 | Rotary Club Ogliastra | Two postcard illustrations |
| VARIOUS | |
| 2013 | “Ennio Zedda” prize, "comics" section |
| 2010 | Featured in group exhibition “Il fumetto in Sardegna”, organized for Cagliari's comics festival "Nues" |
| 2009 | Featured in group exhibition “L"isola delle nuvole”, and teacher in some of the comic workshops for children, organized for Cagliari's comics festival "Nues" |
| 2008 | Featured in group exhibition "Nuvole Quartesi 2008", "Young authors" section |
| 2005 | Short comic story "The revenge of the Dulls" (story by Enrico Ciccu) selected among the 40 finalists in the contest "Premio Pietro Miccia 2005" |
| 2004 | Teacher in the workshop for children "L’immagine e il racconto - storie raccontate con il fumetto e il teatro" in Quartu S. Elena (CA) |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2016 | Illustration and gouache techniques workshop with Daniela Volpari, organized by OA OpenArt in Cagliari |
| 2015 | Character design and "Painter" workshop with Enrique Fenandez, organized by IDEA Academy in Rome |
| 2012 | Illustrated book creation workshop “Cantieri di grafite – prove tecniche di illustrazione” with Pia Valentinis, organized by Libriforas in Cagliari |
| 2002 | Comics course oganized by Cagliari's International Comic Center (directed by Bepi Vigna) |
| 2002 | Classical high school diploma |
| SKILLS | |
| Software | Adobe Photoshop CS6 and previous versions (very good) Corel Painter 2018 and previous versions (good) Adobe InDesign CS5 (basic) Adobe Illustrator CS5 (basic) Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 (basic) OS: Mac OS X 10, Windows 10 and previous versions |
| Traditional techniques | pencil, ink, markers, coloured pencils, gouache, watercolor |
| Languages | Italian mother tongue English pre-intermediate French A2 Basic Spanish |