About me

Dear Simon,

hi,

my name is Valentina Grasso, I am a London based freelance 2D character animator and illustrator.

I am trained and have experience as both digital (flash, After Effects) and traditional animator.

I had my training in animation at the London Animation Studio (Central Saint Martins) where I graduated from the PG 2D character animation course in 2008.

Since then I worked as a traditional and flash animator in quite a few London based animation studios (such as Chase Imagination, Trunk Animation, Bold Creative, PartizanLab, Picasso Pictures, BreakThru Films, Glasshead) and I have also been freelancing in other projects, such as "Sophia's story", a film sponsored by Community Barnet (which you can watch via my website), an educational animation about HIV for the World AIDS day 2010, and lately I've been working on a couple of traditional animation projects as animator with Elroy Simmons, a great traditional animator with a decade and a half experience in animation.

Before taking my animation path I worked for two years as an illustrator and graphic designer for "Edizioni Alfa", a children publishing company based in Rome, my home town. All the illustrations/graphic design works I produced for the company have been published across Italy.

Since April 2010 I have also been teaching animation with a small team of animators for Eye with a view, an organization which provides animation courses to young people across London. With the team, we run animation workshops where we teach the children all the processes of making an animated film.

I noticed that Stonor Search and Selection is currently looking for a flash animator to join the agency's creative team on a permanent basis, so I thought to get in touch since I'd be very keen to be considered for the role offered.

I think I possess the skills required for the job, and I've been working in a team many times before due to my previous experience in the animation industry.

But most importantly, I am very passionate about animation, and always happy and motivated to develop more and more my skills and improve myself as an artist and animator.

You can watch my most recent showreel via Vimeo, although I need to keep it private for the moment, because I'm not allowed to make some content public yet.

So this is the link to it: */

And this is the password you need to use in order to watch it: mfvp7990.

This is the link to my website as well: *.

It has my old showreel on it, but you can take a look at all my other work that's up there, there are a lot of different things to see, including whole animation projects I worked on.

I'm also attaching my current CV herein.

I really hope to hear back from you.

All the best,

Valentina