Name : Antony Squizzato
Born : 21 Mai 1975

Location : Clermont-Ferrand / France

Job : Co-founder / Creative director at Periscope Creations
Major clients : Michelin, BFGoodrich tires, Ubisoft, Sony Music,
BMG, Wanadoo Edition, La Française des Jeux, Microsoft, ...

Occupation : art direction, 2d & 3d illustration, motion, font design

Also a member of : Tpolm (Helsinky based collective)
Sunflower (3D realtime demogroup)


No client work or illustration is being shown on this site.
In case you want to check my commercial folio, please refer
to the periscope site or affiliated ones (see community ).
   
First attempt : drawing a giraffe with wood cubes [ I am 6 ]

Second attempt : learning Basic programming on 8 bit first computer to draw a pixel giraffe [ I am 11 ]

Third attempt : visiting zoo to check how a giraffe is made, because mine looks too cubic [ I am 13 ]

Had a terrible shock at the zoo - I start soccer to find friends and plan to have a normal social life [ I am 15 ]

Cannot get out of my head those bears, carrots and also the breast from the popcorn girl seen earlier at the zoo [ I am 20 ]

Fourth attempt : being a pop-rock star to raise money so as to make safaris in Africa [ I am 23 ]

It does not work. I am resolved to keep on drawing cubic giraffes and also bears eating carrots [ I am 27 ]

   
Read or watch information about my works on the internet :

 Computer Arts
An interview dealing of realtime 3D art and flash design in the year 2001 for the release of the Sunflower website.


Shift
An article in info world for shift issue 56.

Following interviews are related to my former demoscene activities. Worth to be read if you wonder what the scene was
and how it enabled me to focus digital creation.

Gfxzone.org
An interview released in 1999 dealing of my former demoscene activities and periscope project coming up.

Scene city
An interview released in 1998 dealing of my demoscene activities.

Publications in books or magazines :

IMGSRC100 book from Shift

Pictoplasma book

The Face magazine - focused site in the issue -
   
How long do you stay in front of a web page ?
Looks like the web is getting like an boring space, a "click-to-go-to-next-site" area, under the reign of repetitive words, of repetitive shapes, of repetitive non risky colors and patterns. Let's follow the global trend : designers, with their extended ego, loose their conscience when the network is on. Internet design is like a global market : you want logs, you want famous links, you want famous friends, you want to be a web star. You want the result before the why, before the where, before the what.

Not really understanding.
I am fed up with something that was so addictive years ago, at the age of growing networks, when experiencing projects preserving everyone's identity. And it was meant to get more and more exciting : cheaper technology, faster connexions, more powerful softwares. I bet you did see the commercials on TV, promising the raise of a new era thanks to the internet gods. But the facts : it was more exciting to share ANSI graphics with a V23 modem reaching 1200bits/s at its best than connecting today with a fast DSL with ability to share high resolution movies 24h a day.
...and I am a victim of that.
It is just like being a fish in a globe, sharing space with other fishes : same food, same water, same paths to follow, same audience.
I guess this is why it took me a real big while to release this site... not because of a huge amount of work on it , but because I was bored of creating web sites for designers to designers. Obvisously I was bored of the internet design : watching 80 sites a day like if watching MTV awards, not reading texts, not trying to investigate people's universes.

I feel like people have more interest in the font graphic design than in the meaning of the words. Most websites show omnipresent meaningless words, used with only one aim : displaying something on that screen. Designers should obtain a license for the use of words before we get too polluted. Now I am sure of that : I don't like photoshop cowboys.