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 am very proud to have recently created an animation for the Sphere in Las Vegas.
One of my works has been included in the archives of the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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 of my personal projects have been exhibited around the world and at the Design Museum in London.

If you want to read more about me, here is a selection of interviews:

Maxon – Fubiz – Papercut Magazine – Urban Outfitters – Dribbble – Zealous – GIF Magazine – Wired – TimeOut – Maxon – More press

Some stuff is on sale on Rarible.

Exhibitions

• An Italian Afternoon – Design Museum, London, UK
• The Cave – Chao Art Center, Lost in Play, Beijing, China
• The Cave @ B-Seite 2016, Mannheim, Germany
• The Cave @ E-Luminate Festival, Cambridge, UK
• The Cave – Creative Review Party, Village Underground, London, UK
• The Cave – Mira Festival, Barcelona, Spain
• after // b e y o n d – Ugly Duck – Light Bites, London, UK
• after // b e y o n d – B-Seite 2017, Mannheim, Germany

Awards

• Gastaloops – Vimeo Staff Pick
• Gastaloops – Excellence Award – theGifs2018 – GifMagazine
• Gastaloops at BUG @ BFI Southbank, London, 7th March 2017
• Gastaloops – Creativepool, Best Animation Individual, Jury prize 2017
• Google Earth Timelapse – Gold Lions Cannes
• Draw to Art – Bronze Lion Cannes
• Nsynth Super – D&AD – Yellow Pencil
• Nsynth Super – FWA of the Day
• Waymo 360 Experience – FWA of the Day
• Dive In – Vimeo Staff Pick
• Leftfield – Head and Shoulders – Vimeo Staff Pick
• Leftfield – Head &  Shoulders – UKMVAs – Best Dance Video UK
• Leftfield – Head & Shoulders – VOTD – Winner Video of the Day
• Summer Comes, Summer Goes – Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2016
• The Candy Canes Factory – Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2017
• Playground – Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2018

Festivals

Gastaloops

• Winner of FILE GIF 2017: Multiplicity, São Paulo, Brazil
  

  In first place is “Gastaloops”, by the UK-based artist Nicola Gastaldi. It is a personal project in which the artist produces 100 GIFs over 100 days, using three colors in 50 gif frames. His award-winning GIF shows multiple perspectives of humanoid figures walking around, busy with their daily routines. The ambience recalls the dream-like engravings of Escher and alludes to the tasks which fill our days and occupy our attention.

• Winner of Art Short Festival 2017, Smolensk, Smolenskaya, Russia. Best Music Video
• Special mention for the Music Video Competition at Anibar International Animation Festival 2017, Peja, Kosovo.
  

  In this music video, every second is an explosion of ideas, synchronised with the rhythms of music. It’s captivating visual and sound wise.

• Official selection at International Animation Film Festival – Gdansk 2017, Gdansk, Poland
• Official selection at Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athen, Greece
• Official selection at TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Official selection at Cardiff International Film Festival, Cardiff, UK
• Official selection at Chellavision, Indio, CA, USA
• Official selection at Multivision Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Official selection at Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Glasgow, UK
• Official selection at FILE ANIMA+ 2017, São Paulo, Brazil
• Official selection at FILE ANIMA+ 2017 Disruptiva, Brazilia, Brazil
• Official selection at BlackBox Shortfilm Festival, Aarau, Germany
• Official selection at Tofuzi, Batumi, Georgia
• Official selection at Minikino Monthly Screening & Discussion, Denpasar, Bali
• Official selection at Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival, Mexico
• Official selection at 60 Seconds or Less Video Festival
• Official selection at Art All Night – Trenton: 6th Annual Film Festival, Trenton, NJ, USA
• Official selection at Cartoon Club Rimini, Italy
• Official selection at Kargil International Film Festival, Kargil
• Official selection at PIAFF, Festival International du Film d’Animation de Paris, France
• Official selection at Caostica 15. International Shortfilm and Videoclip Festival, Bilbao, Spain
• Official selection at Szczecin European Film Festival POP SEFF, Szczecin, Poland
• Official selection at Supertoon Festival, Šibenik, Croatia
• Official selection at Queen City Cinephiles Independent Film Screening & Discussion, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Official selection at TFFL – Tourne-Films Festival Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Out of the loop

• Official selection at Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athen, Greece
• Official selection at Besides the Screen: Graphic Intelligences & Algorithmic Fictions

Dive in

• Official selection at Festival Motion Design, Nevers, France.
• Official selection at A/perture Cinema, On and on, St. Winston Salem, NC, USA.
• Official selection at Athens Digital Arts Festival 2019 Extending Realities, Greece.
• Official selection at ANIMA, Córdoba International Animation Festival, Vitória, Brazil