Nidia Dias — Art Director

Nidia Dias is an Art Director based in Portugal, featured in the Art of Styleframe library. The selections below link to the artist's own portfolio for verified work history and credits.

Who she is

Nidia Dias is a Portuguese art director and designer whose portfolio at nidiadias.com is organised as a straight list of commissioned films and self-directed studies. She has worked in-house and freelance across studios including FutureDeluxe, Analog and Territory Studio, and her project notes on those older pieces name the teams and the briefs directly. The newer entries carry full credit blocks too, which makes the site unusually easy to verify against.

Portfolio highlights

• Assorted Styleframes by Nidia Diaz
• Australian Chamber Orchestra Collaboration and experimentation is at the heart of everything done at ACO, so to celebrate 30 years of artistic leadership with Richard Tognetti, six short films were commissioned that would be insp
• Biotic - RnD about dynamic looking splines. Created with Cinema4D and Rendered in Redshift.
• C4D Splash Screen I was approached by Maxon to create this year's splash screen for there S22 release. I've created one look that then had different variations for different versions of the software.
• HP Craftmanship I had the pleasure to be invited by HP to take part in interpreting the theme "The power to reinvent beauty" as part of being an Ambassador for Z by HP.
• An exploration of intrinsic shapes and intertwined geometry. Created using Cinema4D + Redshift
• MS 365 Film created for the Microsoft Ignite Conference that showcased the simple, powerful, and intelligent UI/UX of the new Office 365 Suite.
• Semi-Permanent opening titles 2018 The 2018 titles were a grand collaborative project where a dream team of ten artists from all around the world was assembled to create the titles based on the theme "Creative Tension".
• Withers Ident Withersworldwide, an international law firm, invited Fluent to design a series of visual content that would form the visual identity of their internal Livestream TV network.
• Face Exploration A set of experiments done at Analog, exploring different abstract ways of representing the face (and body).
• Intel CES 2017 Pitch Some styleframes I've created while freelancing at Territory Studio for a pitch for Intel. My role was to create a variety of styleframes that related to Intel's main focus areas for the CES show.
• The Nature of Motion - Created at FutureDeluxe Nike Free technology incorporates an entirely new outsole geometry that lets the shoe not only flex but expand and contract with your foot during every step. As part of the i
• The Nature of Motion - Created at Analog At Analog we were asked by Nike to design and create a motion piece inspired by running, for the Milan Design Fair's 2016 Nature of Motion Exhibit. We took centre stage at the show
• Jump to the Wonder Title Sequence for a imaginary film, based on a text I wrote a while ago.
• Sheild As part of the in-house team at Future Deluxe, I was involved on Nvidia Shield Project to develop the look for it's animation and print campaign.
• Intel - Created at Future Deluxe for a pitch.
• FD Idents As part of the in-house team ,with the launch of the new FutureDeluxe logo and website I was asked to create some visuals that would work along with it.
• Animism Project created as an internal project at FutureDeluxe, that never ended seeing the light of the day. The idea was to explore the Stages of Life through simple forms. — <a h
• Adidas Ace and X Latest launch films for Adidas football created at FutureDeluxe. Ace - Unbeatable offence. Impenetrable defence. Rule the Game X - Destroy Order. Cause Chaos. — My Role: Styleframes , Look Development

Inside the gallery

Electric Elsewhere is the clearest recent example of how she works. It's an eight-minute loopable film made for Rivian's Coachella pavilions, produced with the studio Opalola, and she's credited with creative direction and design. The piece moves from point-based landscapes into abstract digital environments, with Martin Gunnarsson on tech lead and animation and Marcel Piekarski on animation and FX.

Enterprise technology takes up a large share of the list. There are two separate IBM projects, z17 and Z17 LinuxOne, plus a Google Deepmind piece. Those sit next to sports and entertainment work, namely Chase US Open and Riot Worlds 22. Aize Brand Film rounds out the commissioned side.

Then come the pieces with no client attached. SW-1 Portable Music Player is a product concept, and Living Systems reads as a research thread rather than a delivery. Both point back to the same instinct visible in her older Biotic and Intertwine studies, where the goal was to test a rendering idea rather than sell anything. Why do so many art directors keep a lane like that open? Because it's where the language for the next commercial job usually gets invented.

Where to see more

The full set of project pages, with credits and stills, sits on her own site at nidiadias.com.