Alessandro Chirico

Work History

• Concept Artist, Visual Development Artist

  Coldsight Studios Ltd

  June 2016 - Present

  London

  Currently working on film, TV series/commercials and animated features. Please read my profile intro to know some of the projects I have worked on.
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  Senior Vis Dev Artist

  ReDefine

  November 2024 - May 2025
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  Production Designer/Art Director

  Jellyfish Pictures

  November 2021 - August 2024

  Brixton

  Art Direction on a Netflix TV Series called "The Wolf King"
  Production Deaigner on "Stan&Gran;"
  Worked in development.

  
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  Production Designer

  Triggerfish Animation Studios

  August 2019 - November 2021

  Cape Town

  Supa Team 4

  
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  Freelance Concept Artist

  Jellyfish Pictures

  January 2019 - July 2019

  London, United Kingdom

  During my time at Jellyfish I worked on many projects, here is a quick list.
  
  Prehistoric Planet
  
  PBS's When Whales Walked. I worked on the concepts/illustrations for 16 of the creatures that you see on screen. A very nice to project to work on plus everything related to Natural History is always super fun as I very like all sort of creatures that live and lived on our planet!
  
  Several Pitches some of which we will hopefully see them fully developed in the near future.
  
  A Kickass animated short still under development under the direction of Simone Gianpaolo.
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  Freelance Concept Artist

  Axis Animation

  September 2018 - September 2018

  London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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  Lead Concept Artist

  Yamination Studios

  February 2018 - September 2018

  London

  I helped create a unique and distinctive style for a pitch project that got greenlit by Netflix. I'll update this description when I can say more.
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  Freelance Concept Artist

  Painting practice

  September 2016 - August 2018

  Twickenham, United Kingdom

  I worked at Painting Practice on and off for around 2 years on several projects from animated TV Ads, TV Series to Feature Films.
  Here are some examples:
  His Dark Materials (Concept art)
  Artemis Fowl (2019 - blue sky stage concept art)
  Black Mirror S4 (I helped design "the dog" in Metalhead together with the Production designer Joel Collins and Director David Slade at Painting Practice, I also worked on concept art and matte paintings on props and environments for 4 episodes)
  Watership Down (Dec 2018) (concept art)
  Intuit, A giant Story - animated short (layout and visual development)
  James Wellbelowed, Megacity - animated short (layout, vis dev, matte painting)
  Compare the meerkats ads (concept art)
  Pentakill cinematic video (vis dev)

  
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  Concept Artist

  Kobojo

  February 2015 - February 2016

  Dundee, United Kingdom

  I worked on the RPG Zodiac:Orcanon Odyssey as concept and production artist. I worked on concept art needed for the game (assets, weapons,icons), level building in Unity and I was also involved in the game design of a few levels.
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  Artist

  Goodgame Studios

  November 2013 - January 2015

  Hamburg Area, Germany

  I worked on the creation of assets and artworks of 2 of their mobile games.

• Character animator, digital painter

  SquashandSketch

  2011 - 2014

  Florence Area, Italy

  Owner, I worked as Character Animator, Digital Painter, Concept Artist. Client list: Neko Productions, AppsFuel, Mukki, DotMedia, Cotoneve, Buongiorno S.P.A., Nokia OVI.
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  Teacher

  Nemo NT Academy of Digital Arts

  October 2010 - October 2013

  Florence Area, Italy

  During this period I have been teaching several subjects, from 2d Animation to Concept art.
  I also gave support for the annual organization of the festival: NEMOLAND – behind the scenes of
  science fiction and fantasy.
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  Teacher

  The animation Workshop

  January 2013 - January 2013

  Viborg

  Teacher for the Creature Design part: The Quadruped Project
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  Flash Animator

  Buongiorno

  2010 - 2012

  Florence Area, Italy

  Animation for Ipad/Iphone Games (Nanny Lalla, Bible Stories), Motion Graphics, Banner and icons creation, Animation for Melajuego Website.
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  Flash Animation Supervisor and Flash animator

  DADA

  July 2010 - July 2011

  Flash Animation for Ipad applications (games for kids: Nanny Lalla, Bible Stories) and Facebook online games.

• Multimedia Content Creator

  CSF Sistemi S.R.L. – Anagni(FR)

  December 2009 - September 2010

  Advertisement Creation in Flash

• Motion Graphics Design

  Conto Tv

  April 2010 - May 2010

  Development of the opening sequence of a new television channel
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  Internet Assessor

  Lionbridge

  September 2009 - February 2010

  Web search results evaluation

• Programmer

  Commprove Technologies

  September 2008 - January 2009

  Shell scripting (Solaris), Content creation for a Web based platform using Flash AS3

• Web Developer

  Web & Press Edizione (La Locandina, Il Reporter)

  January 2008 - August 2008

  Web Development
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  Thesis

  Tampere University of Technology

  January 2006 - May 2006

  Project on 'MAC protocol and Network Simulator (NS)" with relative crosslayering