Gabriele Montinaro, a freelance motion designer based in Italy, bares his heart and understandably tortured soul in this exuberant motion exercise (and even more energetic process reel) about a problem many creatives identify with.

Gabriele Montinaro: “This project was born to tell and solve my problem: I had never be able to complete a personal project before. I worked on this animated personal project for 12 months in my spare time (eight months for the project itself and four months to create the video breakdown.

“I did my best to explain everything clearly without boring you; there is a lot of work behind these videos. I didn’t have a budget for a team, so I had to do everything by myself. I hope there will be opportunities in the future to create passion projects like this with an amazing team. If I have motivated and inspired at least one of you with this video, I will have achieved my goal.”

Watch the process reel:
 
 

 
 

 
Director/animator: Gabriele Montinaro