Avatar:Alexandra Chiu

<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Alexandra Chiu</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Alexandra Chiu, also credited as Alex Chiu, is an American director and storyboard artist. She is the supervising director, an episode director, and storyboard artist on the upcoming Avatar Studios series, Avatar: Seven Havens.

Avatar works

Supervising director, director, and storyboard artist

• Avatar: Seven Havens

Selected other credit

Television work

• Centaurworld (storyboard artist)
• DC Superhero Girls (storyboard revisionist and artist)
• Glitch Techs (storyboard artist)
• Gremlins: The Secrets of Mogwai (episode director)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (storyboard artist)
• Invincible (storyboard artist)
• Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld (storyboard artist)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (storyboard revisionist and artist)
• The Legend of Vox Machina (storyboard revisionist)
• We Bare Bears (storyboard revisionist and artist)
• What If...? (storyboard artist)

Filmography

• KPop Demon Hunters (storyboard artist)
• ROBBED (storyboard revisionist)

Biographical information

Personal life

Graduating cum laude from the University of Washington, Chiu received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design and Visual Communications with a minor in Political Science and Writing.

Career

Chiu's career in the animation industry began on the 2017 Marvel's Spider-Man series; after seeing her portfolio and work on Tumblr, the show's production team extended a job offer to Chiu. For the next several years, Chiu would work as a storyboard artist, a job she viewed as the most creatively fulfilling in the creative field, full-time on shows like Glitch Techs, Centaurworld, and We Bare Bears: The Movie, and freelancing on the productions of Guardians of the Galaxy, What If...?, and The Legend of Vox Machina. Even after completing her undergraduate studies, and taking classes from other institutions and experts in the field, Chiu would go on to teach several workshops herself that focused on developing storyboarding skills.

As a storyboard artist on the animated film KPop Demon Hunters, Chiu contributed to several of the movie's action sequences. Those contributions involved providing new iterations of scenes her colleagues had worked on, or including character beats that wound up in the final film; Chiu even developed her own boards and sequences based on unused story ideas. Jed Diffenderfer, Chiu's supervisor on the project, later praised her for her passion and storytelling ability.