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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
Tags: character design, compositing, music, sound design, stop motion
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
Tags: hand-drawn, music, sound design, traditional animation
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
Tags: cutout, music, sound design
Xbox Kinetic billboard
A billboard for Xbox that’s been running on swedish TV4. Enjoy the VFX breakdown.
- Client: Xbox
- Agency: IUM
- VFX: Nicola Smanio
- Sound Design: Nicola Smanio
Tags: 3D, camera mapping, compositing, sound design
Expekt TV spots
Here are 3 TV commercials for betting site Expekt that I produced for Suddenly Stockholm.
- Animation: Nicola Smanio
- Sound Design: Nicola Smanio
- Agency: Suddenly
Tags: 3D, matte-painting, sound design
Bioinformatics
- Concept, Script: Giulia Gaudenzi
- Direction, Animation, Photography, Sound design: Nicola Smanio
Tags: sound design, starred, stop motion
Adressändring Brevet
David and Goliath animation.
Website and five animations for Adressändring, a Swedish address redirection service. Read more »
Statoil Banner
Banner for Statoil. You tank up a crappy old car and you get a brand new Saab. I did the animation in After Effects. The idea was to make it look as three-dimensional as possible in 2.5-D as there was no budget to make a full 3D transformation. The background and the first car also involved a lot of matte-painting. Read more »
Tags: Flash, matte-painting, sound design