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For the past two decades, New York based Rivoli Design Group has been creating digitally rendered character art, style guide design and themed entertainment experiences that leverage new licensing deals, expand retail partnerships, build brand equity and generate revenue for all stakeholders.

 

Maintaining a tight-knit, all hands on approach, Rivoli Design Group leads as a solid team of professionals, offering its clients the highest level of personalized attention, thematic vision, quality control, efficiency and mastery in its work.

 

 

 

John Rivoli

Creative Director, Digital Inking Pioneer

John Rivoli is an animator, illustrator and fine artist who was classically trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the Istituto Politecnico della Moda  (POLIMODA) in Florence, Italy. He became an expert in the art of hand inking animated characters early on in his career, and developed an affinity for its organic beauty.

 

While working as a creative director for Walt Disney and Warner Bros. licensees in New York’s garment center, John began to develop and perfect a vector-based digital inking process for animated characters and style guide art. He test launched it with freelance clients, and it instantly became a distinguishing niche that led him to set out and found his own agency in 1999.

 

John’s innovative development — capturing the look and feel of traditional hand inking but in a vector based art format — was a breakthrough in the emerging digital art world. Being the first design agency to create digitally rendered, vector based art further created a solution to real business problems: costs went down, turnaround times were faster and the print quality of character artwork was flawless regardless of its size. In solving film studios’ bottom-line challenges, Rivoli Design Group gained distinction in the entertainment industry, leading to long term contracts with the world’s largest studios, including Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Sony Consumer Products, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, Paramount Pictures and MGM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucy Antonia Fierro

Vice President, Marketing & Communications

Lucy Fierro is a co-founder and partner who leads in the overarching strategic development and business management of the agency and its projects. A highly conceptual problem solver, Lucy navigates clients through complex challenges, creating roadmaps for long term brand vision, identifying promotable content and producing effective marketing messages.  An accomplished writer in all aspects of corporate and creative communications, Lucy crafts project pitches, marketing plans, and promotion campaigns. She works collaboratively on the creative team, extending her expertise in brand positioning, visual identity and project management. Lucy is based in

New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Fontaine

Director, Special Effects

David Fontaine has been at the forefront of digital technology in the field of character art and live action graphics since the early 1990s. A pioneer in his own right, David brings to Rivoli Design Group proprietary processes which make Rivoli Design Group uniquely capable of replicated 3D film properties into a 2-dimensional format. David is based in San Diego.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Bode

Creative Director, Global Themed Entertainment & Character Art

Fred Bode is a consultant at Rivoli Design Group, overseeing all creative development for global themed entertainment projects. Under Fred’s guidance, current projects include themed attractions, all location-based entertainment, style guides and product development for client I.P. holdings and original content.

 

Spanning over two decades in the entertainment industry, Fred’s illustrious career has been most notably in the role of Executive Creative Director of Global Themed Entertainment at Warner Bros. Entertainment, in which he led the design and execution of the multi-award winning $1.4B Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi UAE theme park and WB Abu Dhabi hotel that positioned Warner Media in the Middle East. 

 

While developing the Abu Dhabi theme park and overseeing creation of its 3D sculptures, character art, media, props, graphics, and more, Fred served concurrently as Global Creative Director of Character Art and Product Development. In addition, he oversaw all creative development, product development for Six Flags theme parks, Parque Warner in Spain, WB Movie World Australia as well as all ancillary live shows and productions. 

 

As the official Character Art artist personally selected by J.K. Rowling, he held the esteemed role of sole studio ambassador, liaison and agent for character art development for the Harry Potter global consumer products merchandising and development.

 

Prior to Warner Bros., Fred Bode held positions as Global Director of Character Art, Product Development Hardlines, N.A. at The Walt Disney Studios, and as Creative Director, Character Art & Design for Sony Consumer Products.