Valerio Tarricone
Valerio Tarricone - Lead FX
Lead FX TD / 11 yrs
Barcelona, Spain
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Previously he was employed as FX TD by Double Negative in Vancouver working on Pacific Rim Uprising for Legendary Pictures, most recently he worked on Blade Runner 2049 for Alcon Entertainment - Warner Bros and The Mummy for Universal Pictures before Fast & Furious 8 for Universal Pictures and Wonder Woman for DC Entertainment, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for Warner Bros, Star Trek Beyond for Paramount Pictures and The Huntsman: Winter's War for Universal Pictures.
Before he was FX TD at MPC in Montréal working on the feature film Fantastic Four for 20th Century Fox.
Valerio has completed the MA in Digital Effects graduate with Merit at Bournemouth University National Centre for Computer Animation.
He has collaborated as 3D Generalist for Variant Office, Design Studio based in London. Earlier he has completed the FX Intern at The Brewery VFX in London where he worked on the Fluid simulations as Fire, Smoke plus RBD and Cloth dynamics for the ITV serial The Great Fire. Previously he has been employed as Junior FX Generalist Artist for Rock Paper Film and as Junior FX Artist at the Cross Channel Film Lab. An artist to the core, he holds a degree in BA Graphic Design and Multimedia from LABA Academy of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Animation 2D / 3D from Nemo NT Academy of Digital Arts and a Diploma in Sculpture from AD'A Academy of Art.
Work History
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FX Lead
Skydance Animation
November 2021 - PresentBarcelona, Spain- Spellbound (Netflix)
- Pookoo (Netflix)
https://skydance.com/animation/
Skydance Animation Madrid is a Spanish animation studio based in Madrid, Spain. It is a subsidiary of Skydance Media to create computer-animated movies for theatrical release.
We’re creating an animation studio where wildly entertaining stories will captivate audiences of all ages around the world. Our deeply creative artists want to tell bold, original stories that touch people’s hearts. -
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Senior FX Artist
Cinesite
September 2020 - July 2021Vancouver, Canada- The Addams Family 2 (Metro Goldwyn Mayer - MGM)
https://www.cinesite.com/
Superheroes, fantastic beasts, dinosaurs of the 21st century, and galaxies undiscovered. Cinesite is an award-winning digital entertainment studio with over 25 years of experience and work on hundreds of film, TV and streaming productions. Our visual effects and animation teams breathe life into filmmakers’ visions. Alongside our skilled artists and engineers, we work closely with filmmakers and studios to achieve the impossible, whether through complex visual effects or conceiving and realizing entire animated films.
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Lead Senior FX TD
Pixomondo
January 2018 - October 2019Vancouver, Canada- For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
- See (Apple TV+)
- Locke & Key (Netflix)
- The Orville - season 2 (20th Century Fox)
- The Magicians (Syfy)
- Game of Thrones - season 8 (HBO)
- Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (Sony Pictures Animation - Columbia Pictures)
- A Dog's Way Home (Columbia Pictures - Sony)
- Siren - season 1 & 2 (Freeform, Disney Media Distribution – ABC Television Group)
https://www.pixomondo.com/
Pixomondo is an international visual effects company with a global network of studios in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vancouver, Beijing, Toronto and Shanghai. The company produces feature film, television and commercial visual effects. On February 26, 2012, Pixomondo won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on the film Hugo. Pixo is the primary VFX provider for Game of Thrones, they started working on the show in the second season.
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FX TD
Double Negative
August 2015 - December 2017Vancouver- Pacific Rim: Uprising (Legendary Pictures)
- Blade Runner 2049 (Alcon Entertainment, Warner Bros):
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects 2018 (Oscar)
Visual Effects Award (VES) for Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature
BAFTA for Best Special Visual Effects
- The Mummy (Universal Pictures)
- Fast & Furious 8 (Universal Pictures)
- Wonder Woman (DC Entertainment)
- Deep Research in Double Negative: Houdini Mantra & Nuke
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Warner Bros)
- Star Trek Beyond (Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot)
- The Huntsman Winter's War (Universal Pictures)
https://www.dneg.com/
Double Negative is a British full-service visual effects/computer animation company. The company was set up in 1998 with a team of 30 staff and has since grown to over 1,000 staff, making it Europe's largest provider of visual effects for film.
Double Negative has received several Visual Effects Academy Awards and BAFTA.
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Education
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MA Digital Effects
Bournemouth University
January 2012 - September 2013 -
BA Graphic Design and Multimedia
LABA Firenze
January 2009 - September 2011 -
Diploma Animation 2D / 3D
Nemo NT Academy of Digital Arts
January 2007 - September 2009 -
Diploma Sculpture
AD'A Academy of Art
January 2008 - September 2009 -
G. P. Vieusseux - Second Level College of Science
September 2001 - September 2006