Valentina Grasso

Valentina Grasso

2D & Stop Motion Animator | Illustrator


Location:
London
Career stage:
Experienced

Freelance

Availability:
Available


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About

I am a 2D Character Animator, Animation Director, Illustrator, Storyboard Artist, Concept Artist, Character Designer and Graphic Designer, as well as a Painter and an Engraver. I am a free spirited, versatile artist, who likes to portray the world through her imaginative eyes, giving a touch of magic and enchantment to all things around us.
My style has a lot of fantasy influence, probably an heritage from children and fairy tale books, and also my passion for epic and medieval stories and settings. I was also always a big fan of mangas. So my work is a mixture of all these influences and atmospheres.

I attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy (my home town), where I achieved a painting degree. I worked for two years as an Illustrator and Graphic Designer for an Italian publishing company specialized in children books. I then moved to London to attend the Post Graduate Course in 2D Character Animation at the London Animation Studio (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), graduating in 2008.
Since then I settled down in London to follow the animation path and dedicate myself to this beautiful art form and all the production pipeline related to it, as well as continuing my Illustration activity.

Since I graduated I worked in many London based studios, such as Bold Creative, PartizanLab, Chase Imagination, Trunk Animation, Picasso Pictures, Breakthru Films, Glasshead, Tandem Films and others, on both hand drawn and digital animation projects, as well as a Designer and a Storyboard Artist. I also constantly freelance for a range of clients of all sorts, for both commercial and independent projects.
My work ranges from designing characters, backgrounds, concepts, logos, book illustration, graphic design, storyboarding, animation, compositing and editing.  

Since 2010 I have also been working as an Animation Tutor, running Stop Motion and Flash animation workshops in primary and secondary schools and for various organizations, venues and events across London and beyond.
In 2017 I lectured at Central Saint Martins over the short course "Drawn Animation for Beginners", and I was also invited to Sharjah, UAE, for being an animation workshop leader over the Sharjah International Book Fair November 2017 edition. 

E-learning

See which ScreenSkills e-learning Valentina Grasso has completed to improve their skills and knowledge.

Diversity, equity and inclusion for the screen industries

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Safeguarding for all: basic awareness for the screen industries

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Tackling harassment and bullying at work

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Addressing unconscious bias: basic awareness in the workplace

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Introduction to mental health awareness at work

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Coronavirus basic awareness on production training

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Valentina Grasso

Valentina Grasso

2D & Stop Motion Animator | Illustrator


Location:
London
Career stage:
Experienced

Freelance

Availability:
Available


Download CV