Raffaele Anile

Product & motorcycle designer · Barcelona

Available for selected freelance projects

Hello :)

I make sense of shapes, and shapes out of sense.

Italian, based in Barcelona. Designing things for as long as I can remember, motorcycles since 2021, now at Stark Future. From research and design all the way to production: the whole process matters to me. Speaking the brand’s language, or defining it.

  • Motorsport
  • Music
  • Cycling
  • Motorcycles
  • Hiking
  • Tech
  • Games
  • Classic cars
  • Craft
  • and a lot more
Raffaele Anile

Real bikes, real deadlines

Where I learned the job, and still do.

Open a project for the full story.

Function, celebrated

My design approach

  • Visual & physical
    lightness
  • Proportions
  • Attention
    to details
  • Form follows
    function
  • Synthesis over
    decoration

Not a straight line

How a project actually moves. Flexible, depending on what the product needs.

Tornado 2030 key sketchTornado 2030 first side viewE8, first sketchCAD and render at the deskCutting the frameTest-fitting a printed tailThe workshopClay seat on the prototypeCaballero 700Imola 500XE 300
Tornado 2030 key sketchTornado 2030 first side viewE8, first sketchCAD and render at the deskCutting the frameTest-fitting a printed tailThe workshopClay seat on the prototypeCaballero 700Imola 500XE 300

Where do I fit in this workflow?Glad you asked.

2D

  • Sketching
  • Digital illustration
  • Graphic design
  • UI/UX
PhotoshopIllustrator

3D model

  • Surface
  • SubD
  • Poly
  • Parametric
AliasPlasticityBlender

3D viz

  • Rendering
  • Basic animation
  • VR inspection
BlenderUnreal Engine

Soft

  • Adaptive creative thinking
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Time & budget management

The best tool doesn’t matter. Using the right one does.

After hours

E8

Personal project. I started it during my first experience in the motorcycle industry, and it grew alongside me.

E8 render: two versions of the bike in a dark studio
The first rough sketch of E8

Experiment

No mood board. I can’t trace back a single inspiration, other than this rough sketch.

Later sketch of E8 with frame, engine and suspension

Iterate

Which eventually evolved into this. Body, frame and engine, chasing the right balance between the three.

Screenshot of the Blender file with hundreds of parts

Refine

The engine, reverse-engineered from a mesh. Parts from GrabCAD, tweaked one by one. Yes, this is the actual Blender file.

If you can’t touch it, it’s not real

After all that modeling, a few polished screenshots didn’t feel like enough. Then I 3D printed a half-scale engine as a desk display, and that sparked the idea: a full model at 50% scale. Drag the caliper.

E8 half-scale model, side view

The details

Quiet from ten feet. Up close, everything is on show.

E8 render details: cockpit, ECU, cable routing and tail
Close-up render of the E8 engine covers
  1. Exposed ECU and cable routing, inspired by custom PCs
  2. Detailed cable routing, meant to be seen
  3. Plastics decluttered, easy to customize
  4. Basic info display
  5. Horizontal back link

Real problems, real fixes

Small fixes for real objects. Measured, modelled, printed, fitted.

Alfa Romeo Giulia · Gear knob

A grip that melted

The soft lower part of the knob was TPU. A few hot summers later it had turned into sticky goo.

  1. Measured the original, every edge.
  2. Reverse-engineered the silver top shell.
  3. Redesigned the lower part to slide on from below.
  4. Two clip halves lock it all with a precise snap fit, so it can’t slide off again.
  5. Fuzzy skin from the slicer hides the print lines.
The original knob with the lower grip melted away, next to a caliper
Before
Exploded CAD: top shell, new lower body and two clip halves
New parts

Fantic Caballero · Project CabaFast

Tight fit, clean lines

A friend’s bike, rebuilt in flat-track trim. I redid the under-seat tray and the front number plate, working around the parts already on the bike. Plus new graphics for the whole thing.

CAD side view of the flat-track tail with the new under-seat tray

Under the seat

  1. Shaped the tray to line up with the flat-track tail.
  2. Made room for battery, ECU, fuses and connectors.
  3. Recessed the voltage regulator, so its fins take air from under the seat.
  4. Mated to the existing frame mounts.
CAD of the new under-seat tray with the regulator recess
CAD
The tray fitted, with battery and electronics in place
Fitted

Front number plate

  1. The goal: as compact as possible, hiding every cable and hose in the cockpit.
  2. Measured the triple clamps, fork legs and every cable run.
  3. Shaped it to sit tight between the fork legs.
CAD of the number plate between the fork legs
CAD
The plate fitted between the fork legs
Fitted

From the archive

Other projects. Some open right here, the rest live on Behance.

Let’s talk

Available for

Selected freelance projects

Alongside my full-time role, I take on a few projects at a time.

  • AccessoriesBolt-on parts and kits that look factory-made.
  • AftermarketFairings, tails, plates and covers for bikes already on the road.
  • ProductsObjects beyond motorcycles, from concept to production files.
  • GraphicsLivery, OEM and aftermarket graphic kits, CMF.
  • 3D printingMeasured, modelled, printed and fitted parts.
  • One-off projectsCustom builds and single pieces, done properly.
  • Design consultingProcess and method, from first sketch to production.
Start a project

Emails are fine for a first hello, but the real way to know me is a call. Or a beer, if you’re around.

View CV raffaeleanile.98@gmail.com
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Early work, in the press