Archive for the ‘Animation’ Category

Yellow Velvet Mountain

Official music video for singer-songwriter Amanda King’s song “Yellow Velvet Mountain” from the “Rapids” EP.
You can listen to Amanda’s beautiful music at amandakingmusic.com

• Director: Nicola Smanio
• Character Design: Nicola Smanio
• DOP: Nicola Smanio
• Animation: Nicola Smanio, Annica Klingspor
• Model building: Nicola Smanio, Annica Klingspor

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Payair – How Does It Work

Web commercial for Payair.

• Animation, puppet making, compositing: Nicola Smanio
• Sound design, music: Nicola Smanio
• Voice talent: Colin Cassidy

Playup

A spot I did with Lucas Zanotto for the the mobile application Playup.
Making of: vimeo.com/46694289

• Client: playup – playup.com
• Direction, Animation, VFX, Sound Design: Nicola Smanio and Lucas Zanotto
• Music: Memovy Song by Lucas (remixed by Nicola) – memovy.com

Sofis Mode on Tour 2012

Animation for an event for swedish fashion magazine Sofis Mode.

Assovetro

A corporate spot for Assovetro, the italian association of glass manufacturers.
Check out the making of: vimeo.com/50466613

• Agency: The Nursery
• Art Director: Giuseppe Antonucci
• Director: Nicola Smanio
• Animator: Nicola Smanio
• Illustrator: Annica Klingspor
• Set Builders: Nicola Smanio, Annica Klingspor
• Music: Nicola Smanio

Italian Institute of Packaging

TVC for the Italian Institute of Packaging, Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. English version.
Check out how we made it: vimeo.com/50433677

• Agency: The Nursery
• Art Director: Giuseppe Antonucci
• Director: Nicola Smanio
• Props Builders: Nicola Smanio, Annica Klingspor
• Animator: Nicola Smanio
• Music: Nicola Smanio

Proderm

An informational video for Proderm sunscreen products.
The animated sequences were drawn with pen and paper on live footage.

• Client: Proderm
• Director: Nicola Smanio
• Animation: Nicola Smanio, Annica Klingspor
• Sound Design: Nicola Smanio

OneOnly

ThinCard became OneOnly and I got to update the presentation I did previously with some new animations. This time the video is directed to end customers.

• Client: OneOnly
• Agency: Isobar Stockholm
• Animation: Nicola Smanio
• Music: Nicola Smanio

Newcastle “Try Something A Little Different”

Here’s a teaser and youtube ad promoting a Facebook App for Newcastle Brown Ale in the Swedish market.
The “Try Something A Little Different” app looks through the user’s profile information and status updates and suggests an activity that they might enjoy based on the data collected.
For this one I fixed also music and sound effects.

• Client: Newcastle Brown Ale
• Agency: Isobar Stockholm
• Direction: Nicola Smanio
• Animation: Nicola Smanio
• Music: Nicola Smanio

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