Flame artist Kiki Chansamone, whose credits span spots, features and episodic television, has joined Santa Monica-based R!OT. Over the past four years, Chansamone has been freelancing as a visual effects artist, working primarily through R!OT and Digital Magic Company (which became part of the overall R!OT last year). In addition to his skills as a compositor, Chansamone is also experienced as a storyboard artist and 3-D animator.
As a freelancer, Chansamone has contributed to more than a dozen national ad campaigns during the past year and a half via such shops as R!OT, Santa Monica-based Windmill Lane Productions and editorial house Bedlam, also Santa Monica. These endeavors included spots for McDonald’s, AT&T, Gillette, Intel, Sprite and Chevrolet. The latter was "Windy City," in which a tornado winds through a city street, for Campbell-Ewald, Warren, Mich.
In longform, Chansamone worked on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including helping to develop one of the show’s signature effects by which dying vampires turn to dust. His freelance credits also include work on such films as Monkeybone, X-Men, Armageddon and Mystery Men, as well as Disney’s telefilm Geppetto.
Chansamone began his career as a comic-book artist. He worked for both DC Comics and Marvel Comics on such titles as Justice League of America and Mortal Kombat. He later joined Modern VideoFilm, Burbank, Calif., where he became adept on the Discreet Flame platform and contributed to several syndicated TV series for Saban Entertainment.
