Gerardo Schiavone

About me

Most production pipelines are built for the budget they have. I build them for the result they want.

At District Zero I operate as AI Orchestrator and Creative Director. The person who reads a brief, understands the brand, and designs the fastest, most scalable path to a result worth showing. That means creative decisions are made with production awareness, and production systems are built with creative ambition (to scale when it's needed).

Practically: I design and run the AI-driven pipelines and VFX tools for the team to produce at a level that used to require ten times the headcount. ComfyUI workflows, batch automation, custom tooling. The kind of infrastructure that makes junior and mid team members feel like superheroes and makes clients feel like they hired a studio twice the size. The foundation is ten years of VFX. The edge is knowing exactly where AI changes the equation and where it doesn't.

Hollywood VFX credits. Based in Malta and London. Founder of District Zero.

AI timeline

CGI + AI

2022
Founder of District Zero
AI-driven pipelines and VFX tools: batch automation and custom tooling.
thedistrictzero.com
2023
Aigascope®: an AI rotoscope-animation pipeline, before video-generation AI
A Gen AI pipeline with a 900% efficiency gain compared to digital rotoscope animation technology.
2023
Alien Holidays: an AI-generated, feature-length rotoscope animation movie
VFX Supervisor at District Zero: 1000+ shots delivered with the Aigascope® pipeline.
See the project
2024
AI pipelines for advertising
New pipelines that speed up advertising production by merging standard CGI and VFX with generative AI tools.
2025
Following Framestore's AI department
As a VFX Technical Compositor at Framestore, I followed closely how the studio developed its AI department and took part in its dailies, though I wasn't part of that department.
2026
Agentic workflows for Foundry
A Foundry tutorial on automating VFX workflows with AI agents: Griptape agents inside Nuke pipelines.

Film & TV

Enola Holmes 3 · Netflix · 2026 · Legendary Entertainment · VFX Data Wrangler (on set)
Thor: Love and Thunder · Marvel Studios · 2022 · EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani · Senior Digital Artist
Black Adam · DC · 2022 · EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani · Senior Digital Artist
Wonder Woman 1984 · Warner Bros. · HOST VFX · VFX Compositor and Post-vis
Cats · Universal Pictures · 2019 · MPC · VFX Compositor
The Witcher · Netflix · 2019 · Platige Image · Compositing and Matchmove
Renegade Nell · Disney+ · dupe vfx · Senior Compositor
News of the World · Netflix · 2020 · HOST VFX · VFX Compositor and Post-vis
Enola Holmes · Netflix · HOST VFX · VFX Compositor and Post-vis
Rose Island · Netflix · 2020 · EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani · VFX Artist
The Liberator · Netflix · 2020 · Juice · VFX Compositor
Alien Holidays · 2023 · District Zero · VFX Supervisor and Gen AI pipeline (Aigascope®)
Anxious People · Framestore · VFX Technical Compositor
Django · Sky Original · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor
The Bad Guy · Prime Video · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor
Summertime · Netflix · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor
Fedeltà · Netflix · 2022 · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor
Alfredino – Una storia italiana · Sky Original · 2021 · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor
The King's Musketeers: Tutti per 1 – 1 per tutti · Sky Original · 2020 · BeBrave VFX · Lead Compositor