Simone Giampaolo is a London-based director from Switzerland with an insatiable appetite for storytelling and humor. In 2013, he graduated with distinction from the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Art & Design course at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK).
Throughout his career he's directed, storyboarded and animated on over ten multi-award winning animated films, including his Oscar-shortlisted 'Only a Child'.
Between 2014 and January 2018, Simone worked as animation director and computer graphics generalist in the commercial department at Blue-Zoo Animation on a multitude of projects for clients such as Cartoon Network, Google, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and BBC. In the past few years he’s been crafting short films and mini-series at Jellyfish Pictures, Axis Studios, Ritzy Animation and Aardman (which has been representing him as short-form director since 2018), among other projects.