Creative Director, Musician, Sound Engineer, Digital Animator
Flaviano Pizzardi, born in 1965 in Rome, began his musical career in 1984. From 1984 to 1993, he worked as a musician, releasing two LPs in the UK for a London-based record label and in Italy. Simultaneously, he worked as a sound engineer, producing music for the most important Italian advertising agencies and for television.
In 1993, he co-founded The POOL Factory, one of the first and most significant character animation studios in Italy. As Creative Director, he developed digital animations for advertising agencies, TV, cinema, and archaeological documentaries, winning international awards.
Since 2002, Pizzardi has specialized in Motion Capture systems for real-time animation and digital puppetry for live events, working in Italy, Qatar, France, and the Czech Republic, and earning European awards.
Between 2002 and 2008, he collaborated with the contemporary dance company Altroteatro, developing real-time Motion Capture and Motion Graphics technologies for six ballets. These works were featured at two editions of the Monaco International Dance Forum and in various workshops in Paris.
Since 2010, he has focused on creating motion graphics for classical and contemporary operas, collaborating with institutions such as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica Romana, RomaEuropa Festival, Fondazione Flavio Vespasiano, and Nuova Consonanza. His work spans from Monteverdi to Battistelli, Donizetti, Rossini, Janáček, Lenz, Panni, and Ivan Fischer.
In 2019, he collaborated with Eros Film Production (Mumbai) for the real-time previsualization of film shooting. In the same year, he produced a theatrical experiment on a reimagined version of Molière’s “Lo Stordito” (adapted by Nicolò Barbieri), combining digital and live actors.
In 2020, he published his first interactive film, Decameroscopio, a 3D real-time multicast story freely based on a novel by Boccaccio, winning international awards.
In 2022, he worked on the Motion Capture previsualization for the film Invelle, which won the Carlo Lizzani Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
