Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Valerio Tarricone is a Lead FX Artist with over 13 years of experience across visual effects and animation for film, television, and commercials. He is currently working at Skydance Animation - Paramount Pictures based in Barcelona on the animated features Swapped and Spellbound for Netflix. Previously, he was a Senior FX Technical Director at Sony Pictures Imageworks in Vancouver, contributing to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness for Marvel Studios. Prior to that, he worked as Senior FX Artist at Cinesite on the animated feature The Addams Family 2 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Earlier in his career, Valerio served as Senior FX Technical Director at EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani, working on the historical TV series Romulus for Sky and ITV. He also collaborated with Ingenuity Studios on projects including the music videos Wonder by Shawn Mendes and Rain on Me by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, as well as the series The Good Lord Bird for Showtime and the movie Freaky produced by Blumhouse. During this period, he also worked with Scanline VFX on Godzilla vs. Kong and The Rescue. Valerio previously held the role of FX Lead at Pixomondo, contributing to major productions including the Apple TV+ series See and For All Mankind, The Orville (Season 2) for FOX, Siren (Seasons 1-2) for Freeform, and the feature film A Dog's Way Home for Columbia Pictures. He also worked on Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and the final season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Earlier, Valerio was an FX TD at Double Negative (DNEG) in Vancouver, where he contributed to a number of major films including Blade Runner 2049, The Mummy, The Fate of the Furious, Wonder Woman, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Star Trek Beyond, The Huntsman: Winter's War, and Pacific Rim: Uprising. As part of the VFX team at DNEG, he contributed to Blade Runner 2049, which received the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards. Prior to that, he worked at Moving Picture Company in Montréal on Fantastic Four. Early in his career, he collaborated as a 3D Generalist with Variant Office in London and completed an FX internship at The Brewery VFX, where he worked on fire, smoke, RBD, and cloth simulations for the ITV historical drama The Great Fire. Valerio holds an MA in Digital Effects (with Merit) from the Bournemouth University National Centre for Computer Animation. He also earned a BA in Graphic Design and Multimedia from LABA Academy of Fine Arts, along with diplomas in 2D/3D Animation from Nemo NT Academy of Digital Arts and Sculpture from AD'A Academy of Art.
- Untitled feature animation movie (Netflix) - Untitled animated short movie - Swapped (Netflix) feature animation - Spellbound (Netflix) feature animation 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. John Lasseter is the Head of Skydance Animation.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Marvel Studios) https://www.imageworks.com/ Sony Pictures Imageworks is an Academy Award®-winning visual effects and animation studio known for photoreal live-action visual effects, dynamic creature and character animation and full-CG features. Having created visually stunning images for more than 100 live-action and animated productions over its 26-year history the studio is also a leader in technology, developing software and tools that have helped solve industry-wide challenges and deliver spectacular visuals to the big screen.
- The Addams Family 2 (Metro Goldwyn Mayer - MGM) feature animation Developing Houdini FX setups for feature animation and using Gaffer (Image Engine VFX) for rendering and look development. 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.
- Shawn Mendes: Wonder - music video (Island Records) - Columbia Threadneedle Investments - TV commercial - Glade - TV commercial https://www.ingenuitystudios.com/ Ingenuity exists to bring heart and technology to storytelling. We dream impossible dreams and work to make them real. An award-winning VFX studio. We create moving images for film, television, advertising and music videos. Visual effects for music videos for Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna and Eminem, Billie Eilish plus tv series like The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, This is Us and features like A Star Is Born with Lady Gaga and Whiplash.
- Romulus (Sky - ITV) https://www.effettidigitali.it/ EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani is specialized in advisory, supervision and production of digital visual effects. EDI was founded in Milan, Italy, in February 2001. EDI was soon focused exclusively on advertising and producing visual effects for major production companies and for the most well-known film directors. Since 2002, the company has opened to the movie market and has developed at the same time a department designed for post-production services.