Michele Alessi

Head of GenAI / VFX Supervisor

JAMM Visual · Los Angeles, California

• Built the studio's generative practice and lead it today. Set the workflows, the tooling and the quality bar, leading a team that mixes traditional VFX artists with generative specialists.
• GenAI supervision across the studio's national campaign work, including Super Bowl spots. Amazon Alexa, Hyundai (FIFA World Cup 2026), Gatorade, Kia, Beats, Visa, eBay, Coffee Mate, California Lottery and Kalshi.
• Train and finetune models as well as working with the closed-source ones. Finetune open backbones (Flux, Qwen, Hunyuan, Wan, MiniMax H3) with custom adapters built per campaign, so the output matches an established look rather than a generic one, and reach for a closed model where it is the fastest route to the shot.
• Take the research to the client. Read the papers, test what's new, and pitch viable techniques into live bids alongside agencies and creative directors.
• Integrate machine learning into the everyday VFX toolset (roto, paint, set extension, face replacement, dubbing) so it runs inside the existing pipeline rather than alongside it.
• Run the studio's internal training on generative tools: hands-on sessions, video tutorials and a running channel of technique updates, so the practice spreads beyond the specialists.

VFX Supervisor

MPC · Montreal, Canada

• VFX Supervisor on Sony's Kraven the Hunter. Planned and supported every department alongside the CG and 2D supervisors, accountable for the creative result of the show and all of its CG assets.
• VFX Supervisor (additional) on Netflix's Spaceman. Supported the extension of the show alongside the CG and 2D supervisors, accountable for the creative result and all CG assets.
• DFX Supervisor on Disney's Pinocchio. Developed previs and production workflows and the tools behind them (Unreal to Maya), planned and supported every department, accountable for CG and 2D look development.

CG Supervisor

Mr. X · Montreal, Canada

• CG Supervisor on Marvel Studios' WandaVision, two episodes. Reshaped workflows to fit an accelerated schedule, organised the teams and dispatched the work across every CG department, accountable for the show's CG.

CG Supervisor

Mill Film · Montreal, Canada

• CG Supervisor on Apple TV+'s Finch. Built the workflows and did the design and planning for every CG department, accountable for the show's CG both technically and creatively.
• CG Supervisor on Universal's Cats. Refined the workflows and did the design and planning for every CG department, accountable for the show's CG.

CG Supervisor

MPC · Montreal, Canada

• CG Supervisor on Universal's Cats. Supported the redesign of the CG workflows and the planning across every CG department.
• CG Environments Supervisor on Disney's Maleficent, Mistress of Evil. Designed and built several of the film's sets leading a multidisciplinary team, accountable for environment assets from modelling through look development and rigging.

Sets Lead & Sequence Supervisor

MPC · Vancouver, Canada

• Sets Lead and Sequence Supervisor on Warner Bros.' Pokémon, Detective Pikachu. Designed and built several of the film's sets leading a multidisciplinary team, accountable for environment assets from modelling through look development and rigging.

Sets Lead / Lead Technical Animator

MPC · London, United Kingdom

• Sets Lead on Disney's The Lion King. Designed and built several of the film's sets leading a multidisciplinary team, accountable for environment assets from modelling through look development and rigging.
• Lead Technical Animator on Disney's The Lion King. Designed and researched a new fur simulation setup, water interaction and custom wind in Houdini, then designed the department's pipeline and workflow around it.
• Lead Technical Animator on Paramount's Transformers, The Last Knight. Underwater vegetation and creatures, accountable for rigs, cloth and hair workflow, and the production tools.
• Lead Technical Animator on Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Men Tell No Tales. Boats, underwater cloth and hair, accountable for rigs, workflow and production tools.
• Senior Technical Animator on 20th Century Fox's Alien Covenant. Cloth simulation, shot work and environment dynamics.
• Senior Technical Animator on Disney's The Jungle Book. Creatures and environment dynamics, accountable for pipeline tools, auto-rigs for environment dynamics, and workflow.
• Senior Technical Animator on Paramount's Terminator Genisys. Digi doubles, accountable for cloth rigs and shot sculpting.
• Senior Technical Animator on Universal's Fast & Furious Supercharged. Digi doubles, accountable for cloth rigs, shot sculpting and environment dynamics.

Cloth Supervisor

Grid VFX · Ghent, Belgium

• Cloth Supervisor on The Admiral. Ran the CFX department, its workflow and its rigs.
• Cloth Supervisor on Asterix, The Mansions of the Gods. Ran the CFX department, optimised the cloth rigs and workflow, and introduced production tools.
• FX TD on Knack, Oops! Noah Is Gone, Luke and Lucy. Water and fluids research and simulation.

FX TD & 3D Generalist

Hampa Animation Studio · Valencia, Spain

• FX TD and 3D generalist across two advertising campaigns.
• Co-director and animation director on Laika Space Adventures, a television series.

3D Generalist

Mago Production · Barcelona, Spain

• Animation, modelling, texturing, hair and fur on the television series DR W.

3D Generalist & Senior Animator

BKN International · Barcelona, Spain

• Animation, modelling and lighting on the pilot for the television series Joshua Blake.
• Senior 2D cut-out animator on the television series Stone Age.

Junior 3D Generalist

Pool Factory · Rome, Italy

• Advertising campaigns for Carta Regina Camomilla and Acqua Lete.

Animation Assistant

Matita Animata · Rome, Italy

• Traditional animation assistant, clean-up artist and inbetweener on the Rai series The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus.

Animation Assistant

Graphilm · Rome, Italy

• Traditional animation assistant and inbetweener on the animated features Aida of the Trees and Totò Sapore.

Classical animation, sculpture, painting and photography

Kaleidos, Rome

High School Diploma, Graphic Design

Istituto Professionale F. S. Cabrini, Taranto