Summary
www.alessandrochirico.com
https://www.instagram.com/c0ldsight
I'm Alessandro Chirico, an Emmy-nominated Art Director, Production Designer and Visual Development Artist currently working as a freelancer for Live Action, Advertising, Animated Series and Feature Film.
I'm passionate about the challenge of creating original styles across multiple mediums and I strongly believe in teamwork and creating strong collaboration within my teams.
My versatility allowed me to gain multidisciplinary experience leading to work on a varied array of exciting projects; from several commercials for studios like BlinkInk and Nexus Studios, to designing the robot dog in the Black Mirror episode, “Metalhead”, to the creature designs on When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time, for which I got Emmy Nominated together with the Jellyfish Pictures team.
For the last few years I've been the first point of contact with new clients, pitching new shows, creatively led teams of artists and working on bibles. I oversee projects from inception, starting with sketches, moving to vis dev/concept art to 3D production until final comp.
Over the past 14 years I've worked on a variety of media ranging from print to stop motion, from cut out and motion graphics animation to live action films and 3D animation.Some of the projects I worked on:
Bollywoof, feature film (Redefine/Dneg)
Stan&Gran, a JFP-Jollywise show by Milkshake (Production Designer - 2024)
Wereworld, a Netflix TV Series (Art Director, I led the art team for the first 7 months of preproduction 2022).
"Supa Team 4", a Netflix Original Show (Production Designer and Art Director 2019-2021)
Prehistoric Planet (Creature Designer and Concept Artist 2019)
When Whales Walked (Creature concept art - June 2019) Emmy nominated for Outstanding Art Direction and Graphic Design together with the team at Jellyfish Pictures.
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)
Several Commercials and shorts.
Earlier in my career I worked as a visual development artist, background designer and flash animator in cartoon based TV advertising and as concept artist for mid-core games.Clients: Netflix, Triggerfish Animation, Jellyfish Pictures, Super Prod, Nexus Productions, Axis Animation, Blink Productions, Snafu Pictures, Painting Practice, Feed Me Light, Yamination, Roald Dahl, Interference Pattern, Bacon Pictures, Neko Productions.
Skills
Software proficiency
