Luca Rotteglia

A dynamic motion designer and 3D generalist with a interest in sound design and visual effects. Continuously learning and experimenting. Always striving to find the optimal way to bring a concept to life.

Node Fest Ident 2024

A submission for the Node Fest Ident competition, featuring an animation inspired by Australian flora and fauna. Using Blender’s geometry nodes, I created a procedural moss growth effect and animated the native fringed lily plant with cloth simulations.

Node Fest Ident 2023

A title sequence created for the Node Fest Ident competition inspired by the 90s anime FLCL. Created for a Digital Video Compositing class. This project utilized Blender for character and environment modeling, Mixamo for character animation, and After Effects and DaVinci Resolve for compositing.

Arizona Iced Tea

A 30-second 180-degree VR advertisement featuring an Arizona Iced Tea canned drink. Two environments were created with Blender using assets from Quixel Megascans, rendered out with an equirectangular camera. After Effects was used to blend the two environments together, and then color grading and sound design
were done in DaVinci.

Loop de Loop

In this project, I created a looping animation in C4D, focusing on caustics, dispersion shaders, and cloth simulation tools.

Wilderness Society

An animated infographic video leveraging statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, advocating for action against the impacts of climate change. Crafted in After Effects with a grainy shading aesthetic. Audio recording and sound design were executed in Adobe Audition.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.