Archive for the ‘Video’ 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

Keep reading for the making of. Read more »

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

Protected: Mind Your Teenage

Barnardos

BBH and Sonny London needed help with a series of four complex video banners for Barnardos. Stopp had to save the day.

I went to supervise the shooting in London; the underwater footage was shot at nothing less than Pinewoods Studios.

The campaign won a lot of awards: a Golden Lion at Cannes, a Gold at the 2009 International Andy Awards and  “Break the Cycle” got a Pencil for best online advertising at the 2009 D&AD Awards. Read more »

Stopp’s Graphic Profile

As soon as I started at Stopp we begun working right away on the new graphic profile. This was definitely a big project. The amount of items that go in and out a post production house is huge. From envelopes to videotapes, from bags to mugs, everything needs to be branded.
Quite a satisfaction to see your logo shown around that much, actually. Read more »

Plateau – To Nie Ty

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Warsaw based rock-band Plateau wanted to release a video for their song ‘To Nie Ty’ (It’s Not You), so I told them to come over to Milano…
In one week and with a very low budget we shot this satisfying product that’s been aired on Mtv in Poland. Read more »