Alexandra Iarocci

Alex Iarocci was born in New York City on April 12, 1989. Her family lived in Scarsdale until 1992, when they moved to Atlanta. She attended Paideia School from kindergarden all the way up to 12th grade, where she spent her time being quiet and studying whatever caught her fancy, from dinosaurs to the Battle Of Waterloo to the Beatles.

Alex began her Hampshire College career as Chris Perry's advisee in Fall 2007. She focused her studies on a mixture of animation and Eastern religious studies. However, as she progressed from Division 1 through Division 2 and into her final semesters, Alex began to focus on art as well as animation. Alex's Division 3, mentored by John Slepian and Nat Cohen, was a large, interactive, experiential art piece in which a series of circles on adjoining walls from three projectors changed shape, size and color based on sound within the gallery space.

Alex's approach to animation has always been to try a little bit of everything. She started learning to animate in her sophomore year of high school by taking weekend classes at the Savannah College of Art &amp; Design. Alex's work through college was filled with the abstract movement of sea creatures. She spent an entire semester studying octopus movement. Alex is particularly enthused by the difficulty in animating creatures with many legs and seems to be interested in adding as many moving limbs as she can to her animated works. At this rate, she may start creating animated centipedes.

Alex is proficient in Flash, Motion, Maya and Final Cut Pro, as well as image-editing programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and GIMP. She also has extensive experience with stop-motion work in clay, sand, oil paint and paper cut-outs.

Alex is currently working at JibJab in Venice. She lives in Santa Monica.