About me
Hello! I'm Nicola Gastaldi, London based motion designer and animation director.
Currently working at Google Creative Lab, I'm proud to be also part of the directors roster at Unit9. I've also been a lecturer at UAL.
With more than 20 years experience, I've been lucky to work with some great people and friends at MPC, Ogilvy, Jack Morton, Universal Everything, Mother Design, Smoke & Mirrors.
I have proudly received two Vimeo Staff Picks, the Excellence Award by Gif Magazine, I've been part of teams that won Yellow Pencils at D&AD, Cannes Lions, FWA awards and UKMVAs awards. Some my projects have been exhibited around the world and at the Design Museum in London.
Now I lead the motion team at Google Creative Lab in London.
Skills
3D Animation, 3D Design, 3D Modeling, Animation, Brain storming, Composing, Compositing, Motion Graphics, Project Design, projection mapping, Storyboarding
Sector Experience
Animation, Arts, Audio / Visual, CGI / 3D, commercials
Awards
Cannes Lions - Gold, D&AD Award - Yellow Pencil/White pencil, FWA - Favourite Website Award, The Gifs Excellence Award, UK Music Video Award
Clients
Anomaly, DDB Chicago, DDB Sydney, Google, Ogilvy & Mather NY, Smoke & Mirrors, Starling Bank
on 24th January 2017 Project featured:FinishLine #ShoeSoFresh
on 26th January 2017 Project featured:The Candy Canes Factory
on 1st February 2017 Project featured:Celebrating IBM patents with 6 animated GIFs
on 16th February 2017 Project featured:Head and shoulders - Leftfield
on 21st February 2017 Project featured:Source Branding
on 28th February 2017 Project featured:B Bank – Clydesdale
on 23rd March 2017 Project featured:MotoZ Mods: Projector and Camera
on 14th July 2017 Project featured:Out of the Loop
on 3rd August 2017 Project featured:Virgin Future Visions
on 26th October 2017 Project featured:Stranded on a Pattern
on 2nd February 2018 Project featured:Playgrounds
on 30th April 2018 Project featured:Dive In - An illustrated story
on 17th July 2018 Project featured:Marcus Grimm - Wild
on 30th November 2018 Project featured:Starling x Sibos19
on 10th April 2021 Project featured:Google Earth Timelapse
on 15th July 2021 Project featured:Google Camera Switches
on 21st December 2021 Project featured:Don't Be Afraid
on 2nd December 2022 Project featured:Hacking Google
on 26th January 2023 Project featured:Google: New ways to Search
on 20th November 2023 Project featured:Chrome x F1 x Sphere @Las Vegas
on 21st February 2024