We were lucky to catch up with Filippo Giovannini recently and have shared our conversation below.

Filippo, appreciate you joining us today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

I am very happy, I have dedicated all my studies and practically my whole life to art. Artistic high school, academy of fine arts in florence, international school of comics, up to creating my own studio.
Of course, some days it is stressful, I am tired and think ‘who made me do it?’, but then all it takes is a new project, or an appreciation from a client, and all the desire to create comes back.

Filippo, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I studied at the international school of comics on the sculpture course for modelling with teacher Lorenzo Giusti, owner of Greebo games. From there I worked for a while with Greebo, who had spotted my potential, but our paths parted in order to create my own studio, with an original idea: to sell 3d files to print at home.
Today it seems almost normal but in 2016 when I started I was a pioneer, I can boast of having made the first ever kickstarter (founded) of this kind, in the years to follow many have imitated this path and today we can find thousands of campaigns like this.
The thing that distinguishes my studio from many others is precisely originality: always looking for novelty, something that has never been seen, something different.

Today we can find an infinite number of miniatures and 3D stamapre objects in our catalogue, with all themes, never banal, and we have also made some games.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

That each day is never the same as the one before. Today you create a 19th century style statue, tomorrow you have to sculpt a medal for the army, the next day a miniature of a demon.
I did other jobs before this also so that I could have the necessary funds to open my own studio, and there were jobs where you stood all day at the bench doing the exact same thing every day, nothing wrong with that, it’s honest work without great responsibility, but the way I am without being able to express my creativity I felt drowned.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Today I think we are experiencing a good moment for creativity, thanks to many initiatives and platforms, just think of patreon. But still too often it is taken for granted, creative work is often not adequately paid, taken for granted or even given into the hands of improvised people: how many horrors have we seen on the posters?
Instead, a creative job requires a lot of study, dedication, training and effort, like other jobs.

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