Simone Pompei is a digital artist who works across generative pixel art, matte painting and 3D-printed product design. His practice traces back to a character named Hilly, a simple line-drawn rabbit he first created around 2000, which he later revived as a generative pixel-art NFT collection. In the Winter Echoes collection, minted on Tezos in 2023, he pairs old-photograph textures with embedded text to evoke fragments of memory.
Pompei began experimenting with matte painting in 2013, blending photography and 3D renders after attending a workshop led by Pedro Fernandes at the Creative ProShow event. Around the same period he designed small 3D-printable objects, including bookends and a series of jars, shared through Thingiverse, and sold prints of his work through Fine Art America.
