After our OFFF presentation we had the chance to do a nice interview on The Overview. The Google Creative Lab is a small team operating without a specific focus area within the cooperation. Comprised of diverse creatives with varied skill sets, they bridge the gap between users and the products generated by Google’s researchers and…
My monster got a fantastic feature on Plain Magazine. Nicola Gastaldi is a London-based motion designer and animation director who has a pretty impressive creative background. Currently working at Google Creative Lab, Gastladi is also a director at Unit9, a lecturer at UAL and a mentor at Created Academy. With over fifteen years of experience in his field,…
A wonderful interview about my career on Cinema4D Maxon website.
Stranded has been selected at Cheap Festival in Bologna, Italy. They printed three artworks and pasted them on the walls.
So happy to have Out of the Loop featured on We and the Color!
Dear all! It’s a huge honor to announce that Vimeo chose my #gastaloops to be shown every day, starting from today and till the end of August, on the Big Screen Plaza (6th ave and 29th St) in Manhattan, New York, 12-5pm daily. If you’re in the area, please take a moment to take a picture for me. I’ll try to…
Today our project Out of the Loop is featured on Behance Motion.
Nicola Gastaldi, a motions graphic designer set himself a task of producing one gif every day for 100 days. What started out as a personal project soon gained wide recognition and we can definitely see why. We find out what led him to begin this personal project and discover the ins and outs of this…
Another great interview on Zealous! Meet Nicola Gastaldi: the epitome of a self-taught, self-made artist. You will never hear him say, “Sorry, I don’t know how to do that.” Nicola is anything but a one-trick animator – he’s also a musician, 3 and 4D artist, V-ray enthusiast, and projection expert. He’s an idea fountain and…
Dear friends, In the past few weeks I’ve been quiet on this page. But there’s a lot going on and, as February approaches, I’ll be happy to show you some of the projects I’ve been working on. On Thursday 2nd February I’ll be showing my new projection mapping installation, after // b e y o…
Thanks to the lovely people at The Gifers, one of my GastaLoops is on Repubblica!
My GastaLoops will be part, from 3rd to 9th October 2016, of the International GIF Festival “Y a des GIFs qui se perdent!” will take place in Saint-Etienne (France)!
theGIFER festival is an art gif festival held in Turin from the 2nd to the 6th of November. I submitted my gif Procrastination and has been accepted. If you like it, go and like the gif on their facebook page!
My Gastaloops are now part of a great video for an indie band called IISO! We have been interviewed on Wired Italia. Si intitola “Skip September” l’ambizioso, raffinato EP d’esordio del duo musicale art/visual IISO. Pubblicati dall’etichetta La valigetta, l’album sintetizza l’estetica degli IISO, due musicisti electro/art che si muovono contemporaneamente sulle coordinate del suono…
My personal video Summer Comes, Summer goes has been officially included in the Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2016!
A nice interview on Gif Magazine about my GastaLoops! 作品解説 特にルールは決まってないよ。アイデアはたいてい日に1時間の職場まで歩いている間に思いつくんだ。ロンドンは美しくて本当に刺激的だ。 GastaLoops は要約すると、モーグラフ、あとモーションキャプチャーのデータを使える。私は少しシュールなのが好きだね。 I don’t have a set of rules. New ideas are usually coming during my daily 1 hour long walk to work. London is beautiful and can be truly inspiring. The GastaLoops can be abstract, mograph or they can use motion capture…
Today one of my GastaLoops became an advert for Smoke & Mirrors on Pitch magazine!
I’m so happy to have been featured on the Timeout section of Dribbble! Check the full interview!
I held a talk at the London Motion Meet Up. I explained how projection mappings work, how you can do one with just a laptop and how you can fix the distortions without any dedicated programs.
An interview at Ore 12, Studio1, about my job.
I’ve been invited at B-Seite festival in Mannheim, Germany. They built a new “The Cave” in Stuggart and the final result is incredible. Check these pictures!
Today my Summer Comes, Summer Goes has been featured on the inspiration page of Motionographer!
Yes, I won again the Greyscale Gorilla 5 seconds project, which theme was “Candy Canes” with another perfect loop. It was just about a unanimous decision from our judges! Congratulations to Nicola Gastaldi for an awesome animation. The candy cane factory had so much going on and all the elements worked really well together! A…
Our beautiful Leftfield – Head and Shoulders has been selected as one of the Vimeo Staff Picks!
Summer comes, Summer goes has been featured on Inspiration.Is
Sooo, Leftfield – Head and Shoulders won at UKMVA for Best Dance Video Uk!
And yes, I did it! Sow and reap and then again, a small project done in few nights, won the Greyscale Gorilla 5 seconds project which theme was “Harvest”. The votes have been tallied and we have our winner. It was a clean sweep among our judges this time around! Congrats to Nicola Gastaldi for…
Head and Shoulders has been featured on the front page of Motionserved!
A nice page on the italian newspaper “La Provincia” talking about the UKMVAs nomination of Leftfield music video! You can download the pdf here!
I’ve been interviewd on Uncò Magazine! Thanks guys!
Great media coverage for Head and Shoulders video! Launched as exclusive on Pitchfork, pretty every website talked about it!
Head & Shoulders has been shortlisted at UK Music Video Awards 2015 for Best Animation in a Video and Best Dance Video in UK. I can’t express how happy I am!
I’m really proud that my 2d animation for SyFy Icons channel won the Bronze prize at Kinsale Sharks 2015, for Best Use of Graphics Promo.
Our nice music video for Leftfield has been featured on September 2015 issue of Televisual!
We are glad that Head & Shoulders is in nomination at Kinsale Sharks 2015 for Best Colour Grading, Best Music Video and Best SFX! Woo!!!
Another brilliant feature on Dotmogo, check the full interview on it!
The creative blog Dotmogo wrote a nice blurb about me, with some nice ideas about The Cave as well! I’m really flattered!!!
I am deeply honoured to be part of the line up of Mira Festival, an audio visual festival held in Barcelona. Check the link for more informations about this amazing festival! See you there!
A nice insight of The Cave on Projection Mapping Central.
Deeply honoured to be on TimeOut London! Thank you!
I’ve been interviewed on Creative Review about The Cave and my job. Thanks! Nicola Gastaldi is a motion graphic designer for visual effects and post production company Smoke & Mirrors in London. For the CR Annual launch party last week, he created an audio-visual installation, using projection mapping, especially for the event. We spoke to Gastaldi…
Really excited about this, Maxon featured MBNA little world on their house showreel!
Animal Planet rebrand has been featured on Creative Blog!
MBNA little world has been featured on Televisual blog, among the best commercials of the month!
We’re featured on Maxon website because of our MBNA commercial. Discover how The Studio at Smoke & Mirrors leveraged the power of CINEMA 4D to create an animated world made up of a massive number of credit cards When the London-based studio was given the task of producing an animated TV and digital commercial for…
After our OFFF presentation we had the chance to do a nice interview on The Overview. The Google Creative Lab is a small team operating without a specific focus area within the cooperation. Comprised of diverse creatives with varied skill sets, they bridge the gap between users and the products generated by Google’s researchers and…
My monster got a fantastic feature on Plain Magazine. Nicola Gastaldi is a London-based motion designer and animation director who has a pretty impressive creative background. Currently working at Google Creative Lab, Gastladi is also a director at Unit9, a lecturer at UAL and a mentor at Created Academy. With over fifteen years of experience in his field,…
A wonderful interview about my career on Cinema4D Maxon website.
Stranded has been selected at Cheap Festival in Bologna, Italy. They printed three artworks and pasted them on the walls.
So happy to have Out of the Loop featured on We and the Color!
Dear all! It’s a huge honor to announce that Vimeo chose my #gastaloops to be shown every day, starting from today and till the end of August, on the Big Screen Plaza (6th ave and 29th St) in Manhattan, New York, 12-5pm daily. If you’re in the area, please take a moment to take a picture for me. I’ll try to…
Today our project Out of the Loop is featured on Behance Motion.
Nicola Gastaldi, a motions graphic designer set himself a task of producing one gif every day for 100 days. What started out as a personal project soon gained wide recognition and we can definitely see why. We find out what led him to begin this personal project and discover the ins and outs of this…
Another great interview on Zealous! Meet Nicola Gastaldi: the epitome of a self-taught, self-made artist. You will never hear him say, “Sorry, I don’t know how to do that.” Nicola is anything but a one-trick animator – he’s also a musician, 3 and 4D artist, V-ray enthusiast, and projection expert. He’s an idea fountain and…
Dear friends, In the past few weeks I’ve been quiet on this page. But there’s a lot going on and, as February approaches, I’ll be happy to show you some of the projects I’ve been working on. On Thursday 2nd February I’ll be showing my new projection mapping installation, after // b e y o…
Thanks to the lovely people at The Gifers, one of my GastaLoops is on Repubblica!
My GastaLoops will be part, from 3rd to 9th October 2016, of the International GIF Festival “Y a des GIFs qui se perdent!” will take place in Saint-Etienne (France)!
theGIFER festival is an art gif festival held in Turin from the 2nd to the 6th of November. I submitted my gif Procrastination and has been accepted. If you like it, go and like the gif on their facebook page!
My Gastaloops are now part of a great video for an indie band called IISO! We have been interviewed on Wired Italia. Si intitola “Skip September” l’ambizioso, raffinato EP d’esordio del duo musicale art/visual IISO. Pubblicati dall’etichetta La valigetta, l’album sintetizza l’estetica degli IISO, due musicisti electro/art che si muovono contemporaneamente sulle coordinate del suono…
My personal video Summer Comes, Summer goes has been officially included in the Maxon Cinema 4D General Reel 2016!
A nice interview on Gif Magazine about my GastaLoops! 作品解説 特にルールは決まってないよ。アイデアはたいてい日に1時間の職場まで歩いている間に思いつくんだ。ロンドンは美しくて本当に刺激的だ。 GastaLoops は要約すると、モーグラフ、あとモーションキャプチャーのデータを使える。私は少しシュールなのが好きだね。 I don’t have a set of rules. New ideas are usually coming during my daily 1 hour long walk to work. London is beautiful and can be truly inspiring. The GastaLoops can be abstract, mograph or they can use motion capture…
Today one of my GastaLoops became an advert for Smoke & Mirrors on Pitch magazine!
I’m so happy to have been featured on the Timeout section of Dribbble! Check the full interview!
I held a talk at the London Motion Meet Up. I explained how projection mappings work, how you can do one with just a laptop and how you can fix the distortions without any dedicated programs.
An interview at Ore 12, Studio1, about my job.
I’ve been invited at B-Seite festival in Mannheim, Germany. They built a new “The Cave” in Stuggart and the final result is incredible. Check these pictures!
Today my Summer Comes, Summer Goes has been featured on the inspiration page of Motionographer!
Yes, I won again the Greyscale Gorilla 5 seconds project, which theme was “Candy Canes” with another perfect loop. It was just about a unanimous decision from our judges! Congratulations to Nicola Gastaldi for an awesome animation. The candy cane factory had so much going on and all the elements worked really well together! A…
Our beautiful Leftfield – Head and Shoulders has been selected as one of the Vimeo Staff Picks!
Summer comes, Summer goes has been featured on Inspiration.Is
Sooo, Leftfield – Head and Shoulders won at UKMVA for Best Dance Video Uk!
And yes, I did it! Sow and reap and then again, a small project done in few nights, won the Greyscale Gorilla 5 seconds project which theme was “Harvest”. The votes have been tallied and we have our winner. It was a clean sweep among our judges this time around! Congrats to Nicola Gastaldi for…
Head and Shoulders has been featured on the front page of Motionserved!
A nice page on the italian newspaper “La Provincia” talking about the UKMVAs nomination of Leftfield music video! You can download the pdf here!
I’ve been interviewd on Uncò Magazine! Thanks guys!
Great media coverage for Head and Shoulders video! Launched as exclusive on Pitchfork, pretty every website talked about it!
Head & Shoulders has been shortlisted at UK Music Video Awards 2015 for Best Animation in a Video and Best Dance Video in UK. I can’t express how happy I am!
I’m really proud that my 2d animation for SyFy Icons channel won the Bronze prize at Kinsale Sharks 2015, for Best Use of Graphics Promo.
Our nice music video for Leftfield has been featured on September 2015 issue of Televisual!
We are glad that Head & Shoulders is in nomination at Kinsale Sharks 2015 for Best Colour Grading, Best Music Video and Best SFX! Woo!!!
Another brilliant feature on Dotmogo, check the full interview on it!
The creative blog Dotmogo wrote a nice blurb about me, with some nice ideas about The Cave as well! I’m really flattered!!!
I am deeply honoured to be part of the line up of Mira Festival, an audio visual festival held in Barcelona. Check the link for more informations about this amazing festival! See you there!
A nice insight of The Cave on Projection Mapping Central.
Deeply honoured to be on TimeOut London! Thank you!
I’ve been interviewed on Creative Review about The Cave and my job. Thanks! Nicola Gastaldi is a motion graphic designer for visual effects and post production company Smoke & Mirrors in London. For the CR Annual launch party last week, he created an audio-visual installation, using projection mapping, especially for the event. We spoke to Gastaldi…
Really excited about this, Maxon featured MBNA little world on their house showreel!
Animal Planet rebrand has been featured on Creative Blog!
MBNA little world has been featured on Televisual blog, among the best commercials of the month!
We’re featured on Maxon website because of our MBNA commercial. Discover how The Studio at Smoke & Mirrors leveraged the power of CINEMA 4D to create an animated world made up of a massive number of credit cards When the London-based studio was given the task of producing an animated TV and digital commercial for…
