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Alexander Swann (born 1986) is a British visual effects artist and software developer employed by the Home Office.

Early life
Swann grew up in London and attended Charterhouse School. He graduated from the University of Bristol in Archaeology & Anthropology before starting a career in visual effects. He proceeded to do a compositing course at Escape Studios before starting his first job at London visual effects house Framestore.

Career
He joined Framestore in 2011 and worked on films such as Harry Potter, Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes and War Horse. He also worked on the film Gravity which the team and studio won both a BAFTA and Academy award for in 2014.

He then continued working for Passion Pictures and worked for various advertising clients including for Nike's advertising campaign 'Risk Everything: The Last Game' for the Brazilian World Cup in 2014. This has been viewed over 60 million times on YouTube

In 2016 he joined the Home Office as a software developer.

Personal life
He lives in Hertfordshire.