Basaricò [ba∙sa∙ri∙’ko]
sicilian for basil Aromatic plant of the mint family, key ingredient of every tomato sauce.
Basaricò is a mixed media driven animation studio.
We are just two animation nerds messing around with stuff to visualise ideas.
We move things forward, frame by frame.
Nicolò
co-founder
Hi, I’m Nicolò Cuccì, a Motion Designer specialized in stop-motion and mixed media animation. I focus on production design and art direction. My workflow follows a clear image of the final shot adapting my skills to it as I go.
Salvo
co-founder
Hi, I’m Salvo Di Paola, a scriptwriter and director specialised both in live-action and animation. My main thing is coming up with ideas and bringing them to life trough a pragmatic writing approach.
Peppe Lana asked us to make an animated story for his new single “Scegliere e cambiare”. We wrote, crafted, animated and lighted up Fuoco Fausto’s story.
Making of Fuoco Fausto
Production: Samvega Direction: Basaricò
Nasi Rotti - concept teaser
This is a concept teaser of our short film Nasi Rotti: a boxing story about the relationship between Luigi (the boxer) and his coach/mentor (don’t worry, his name is not Mario).
Directed by Basaricò
Childish Fear
Childish Fear is a traditional rotoscope made with acrylic painting and ink pens.
We printed and painted every frame of a scene of Jurassic Park, in order to make a rotoscope that evokes the same sensation we felt as children watching it:
Feelings of Fear.
Production: Basaricò Animators: Nicolò Cuccì, Salvo Di Paola
Our mission with this project was to tell the story of a sometimes hard job: the obstetrician. Patrizia wanted to promote her work by showing the heart and soul of her profession: the future mothers. For this short film we experimented with mixed media animation focusing on 3D modelling for the first time.
Directed by Basaricò Animators: Nicolò Cuccì, Salvo Di Paola, Gaia Picciotto
Modelling and rigging: Cecilia Picciotto
Il Baracchino
Enjoy a sneak peek of our next big project.
Production: Basaricò Animators: Nicolò Cuccì, Salvo Di Paola
Keep in mind this is Just Maria‘s project. Basaricò only took care of art-direction and Animation. Scroll down and enjoy!
The vision of Tasca D'Almerita
In 2019 Tasca D’Almerita won the European winery of the year of the Wine Star Awards. The brand wanted to celebrate its story and achievements with this short film we realised with Just Maria.
This was one of our first attempts with mixed media in which we experimented with live action, motion design, camera tracking and stop motion to tell the story of a 190 years old winery.
Production: Just Maria Animation: Basaricò
VFX: Basaricò
Keep in mind this is Just Maria‘s project. Basaricò only took care of art-direction and Animation. Scroll down and enjoy!
Red Bull THE BR4WL
For this project, Just Maria asked us to recall the tension of e-sports competition trough animation. The cool thing is we animated this one during the lockdown.
Production: Just Maria Animation direction: Nicolò Cuccì