About me
Simone Giampaolo is a director and animator from Switzerland with an insatiable appetite for storytelling.
Throughout his career he's directed, story-boarded and animated on ten animated short films, some of whom have been screened at several international film festivals gaining recognition and also winning some awards.
For the past two years Simone has been working as a director and CG generalist in the commercial department at Blue-Zoo Animation (based in London, UK) on a multitude of projects for clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Lucasfilm and BBC.
Projects
- Espero?Graduation film created at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK) by Simone Giampaolo, Yifan Hu and Henrik Linnes. ESPERO? (HOPE?) is a humorous, entertaining but also educational animated comedy which sarcastically shows how Gaia, our planet Earth, met humankind years and years ago, and all the problems which followed. A criticism of our modern society and of the way we've been "evolving" over the centuries. Apart from having a quite original visual style, ESPERO? (HOPE?) is also the very first 3D animated film fully dubbed in Esperanto, a beautiful universal language created over a hundred years ago to foster peace and international understanding between people.
Work history
Animation Director
Supervising animation on several commercial projects and shorts.
Animator & CG Generalist
Skills
- Modelling
- Stop Motion
- Art Direction
- Compositing
- Editing
- Animation
- Rigging
- Character Design
- Storyboarding
- Direction
- Storytelling
Education
Animation
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Awards
Best SIGGRAPH Dailies Presentation
Official Selection: ANNECY