Gio Chronopoulos
Art Director & Lead Artist & Animator

Gio has been working as a professional artist and animator for over a decade starting work full-time at the age of 19 at Striker 3D Ltd creating Striker the word’s first 3D comic strip for UK’s best selling newspaper The Sun and subsequently on the weekly Striker comic book.
He also worked on writing and illustrating The Premier, another 3D football comic strip The Sun along with supplying 3D graphics for special news features in The Sun and The News of the World whilst working in-house at News International Newspapers Ltd.
After spending 7 years working full-time creating 3d art to the unforgiving and relentless deadlines of the newspapers, he took some time out to launch a self-funded online 3D sci-fi graphic novel The Talos Project.
Using The Talos Project online comic as a the portfolio to launch his own creative business, he was approached within a month of its launch by award winning web company Theory7 to be part of a large marketing campaign to help launch the New Ford Fiesta backed by Microsoft. You can view the project feature HERE.
Since then his skills have grown from high resolution realistic character creation such as those in The Talos Project, to high profile concept design: Nike Simulator Commercial, funny cartoon character animation: TidyBuyer and web design like this very site.

Hobbies: Art, Animation, Creative Writing, Reading, Music (piano and composition), Gym & Salsa Dancing

Currently Reading: The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil.

Email: gio@giochronostudios.co.uk

Tel: 07862280148

Stephen Willard
Branding & Marketing Consultant

For more than 10 years he has been developing brands that reflect values and aspirations.
Predominantly he worked for a leading firm in the corporate communication arena. There he occupied the roles of Director of Design and Strategic Design Manager having previously developed a small team of designers into a one of the industry leaders in creative corporate communication.
In those roles he has managed some well know brands including RSA, News International, Co-operative Group, BT, IBM, NAB, ACBRD, Royal Mail, and Telegraph Media Group covering the UK, Netherlands, Ireland and Australia.

Previously he worked in advertising and employer branding for an agency that formed part of the Berkeley Scott Group, and an automotive marketing agency delivering printed collateral for Rolls Royce, Jaguar, BMW, Volkswagen and Land Rover

Hobbies: Modern art, branding, cooking and entertaining, connections with animal welfare charities.

Currently Reading:Superfreakonomics

Email: stephen@giochronostudios.co.uk