Showreel

Animation and motion graphics showreel.

Passoa billboard

Here’s a billboard for Passoa that’s been running on MTV Sweden.

• Client: Mtv
• Agency: Werk
• Direction: Nicola Smanio
• Animation: Nicola Smanio

Teddy

Stopp LA reel intro

Reel intro and bumpers for Stopp’s LA office.
Stopp is one of Sweden’s leading post production and web production facilities. In 2008 they opened an office in Los Angeles, where they focus mostly on web production.
I’ve been commissioned to make an intro to their reel and 4 bumpers that will be used as title plates for their case studies.

Spaghetti Western

ThinCard

This is an animated presentation for ThinCard, a company that had the great idea of collecting all membership cards from different loyalty clubs into one.
Note that the animation is directed to the loyalty club owners, not the final client.
The idea was to show the data they collected in their marketing research in a funny way.
Oh, and did I mention it had to be ready in 4 days?
So I came up with this simple characters that I animated in Flash and After Effects.

• Direction/Animation: Nicola Smanio
• Agency: Suddenly Stockholm

Tonic Gyms

• Agency: United 1861
• Direction: Giuliano Garonzi
• Animation, photography, post production: Nicola Smanio

Two fifteen-seconds commercials for Tonic Gyms.

English National Ballet

Here’s my submission to a poster design competition for the English National Ballet’s show “My First Sleeping Beauty”

Förganglighet

A short fashion film directed by Beckmans College of Design student Åsa Hammarström and animated by me.
The film is part of the exhibition “Something Else” in show at Nordiska Kompaniet in Stockholm from 27/1 to 21/2
More info at www.beckmans.se/somethingelse/

• Director: Åsa Hammarström
• Fashion designer: Anna Svensson
• Photographer: Olivia Jeczmyk
• Assistant photographer: Ida Knudsen
• Animator: Nicola Smanio
• Model: Madeleine, Synk Castings
• Hair & makeup: Magdalena Gelush
• Editing: Nicola Smanio
• Grading and compositing: Nicola Smanio
• Music: Fredrik Forell

Makeup test

So there was a Halloween party last night and I had to fix a costume. As much as I’ve always hated spending my free days looking for the pieces of a costume that never ends to be half as good as you hoped, I’ve always been fascinated by the work of special effect makeup artists.
I had some liquid latex laying around from some old project and I decided to make my face into something even more ugly. So I smeared my eyebrows and beard area with plenty of vaseline —in the hope of not getting my face waxed when i would take it off— and got started.

I think it came out quite good for being my first attempt ever. I would have liked the skin layer to be more transparent, but it seems like a tenth part of acrylic paint in the mixture was more than enough.
The final gory touches are made with gel blood, which seemed to be a bestseller at the art store yesterday. The teeth are made out of modeling clay and applied with adhesive putty. I’ve built them on top of a mold of my own teeth that I obtained by literally biting on a big chunk of clay. I should have painted them a bit to give them volume, but the party was about to start without me by then.