[PSEAD] The Dream of Ghiberti's Door

original link from Verdiana Pagnano facebook

Today I visit a special exhibition by foundation students in UCA, one of these artworks is a animation film named 'The Dream of Ghiberti's Door' by Verdiana Pagnano from Florence. This animation use hundreds picture to make entire video to describe a part of story from Old Testament  that also try to convey the Italia culture of Renaissance period.

The animation inspired by the famous art work gate of the Baptistry of Florence, made by Lorenzo Ghiberti, the door - once known just as the East Door - was named the Gates of Paradise by Michelangelo Buonarroti because of its striking beauty.

The Gates of Paradise was created by Florentine goldsmith and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti between 1425 and 1452. This wonderful door plays an important role in Dan Brown’s novel Inferno.

Verdiana use black and gold paper to build all the ten scene try to make a visual connection to the original one, but the other challenge is the sound of film, the gate is in Italia but story is from ancient Greek, so she search a lot of interesting track to fit the animation.

"I found really hard to find music, I have to think about the animation and  I search about particular music from Italy and Sicily and it's not so good for Greek sound, the animation is fast."

Verdiana said she want to use a funny way to depict the story, just like the beginning of the film, you into the story from real world. I can receive this kind of emotion about "Do something that you really interesting" She try to convey a dream story to audience, but through this project I also can feel her dream about the enthusiasm of animation design.

"many people like it maybe another people not, it's not perfect, but that's what I'd like, I don't want to have a perfect thing, not in the first time, I am going to learn."- Verdiana

For a young designer a artist, I think Verdiana already with the basic capable of ability - "attitude".

the sketch book by Verdiana Paganano