Paolo Russo

Music video for renowned Welsh musician and actor Iwan Rheon for his new album I Should’ve Never Got to Space. The video follows an imaginary billionaire leaving for space after several cataclysms destroyed Earth. Alone in space he has to confront what he had lost and what he took for granted all his life.

“A Cardiff Ghost Story” is an animated love letter to the city and two little known queer Welsh icons who broke boundaries during their lifetimes. Made with the support of FOR Cardiff, City Ambitin Fund,
Iris Prize Festival.

Sole animator for 8 episodes of a new BBC Cymru Bitesize series It's an educational program commissioned for primary and secondary schools in Wales

Each episode focuses on a different challenge faced by children accompanied by poems by poet laureate

Worked on two seasons of BEX, a total of16 episode long children show mixing live-action and animation, entirely in Welsh language. Each episode focused on raising awareness on different mental health issues that could affect children, from chronic anxieties, to body dysmorphia.

The series was commissioned by S4C

Music video commissioned by cabaret punk & indie pop star Rio Romeo as part of their acclaimed album Valentine (currently in the top 50 chart).

Commissioned by songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Polvito to do the animated sequences in his music video. 'Tumble' is about a car crash he experienced and the almost psychedelic euphoria at being alive after a near death experience, and the sense of seeing the world afresh afterwards.

Animation commissioned by Stonewall, the largest LGBTQ+ rights organisation in Europe. The project is based on interviews by teens from the queer community.

Digitalized paper cut-out animation for Ancient Connections, an association dedicated in reviving the shared history and mythology between Ireland and Wales

The project was in partnership with elementary schools in Wexford and Pembrokeshire, and included three animation workshops with children

Animated Sequence commissioned by filmmaker Ryan Oligmueller for his personal and delicate documentary By a Thread about loss and anticipatory grief. A woman becomes her mother's caregiver when she is diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Told through the lens of Live Action, Animation, & Home Video.

Animation commissioned by TED-Ed as part of a series dedicated to mythology. Co-directed with Efa Bloose-Mason and written by Iseult Gillespie. The video received 18 million views on Youtube

Calon Rew (Ice Heart) is Christmas music video for Welsh folk musician Casi Wyn, in collaboration with Efa Bloose Mason, and Gemma Green Hope. Shown on S4C and BBC iPlayer.

Single-handedly animated a 3-minute explainer video on TVpaint for Welsh speech therapist company To&Fro

Animated short as part of the Marketing Campaign for the V&A Exhibition Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, I was commissioned by art collective Reformed the Funk in collaboration with Audible to reimagine a scene from Lewis Carroll beloved classic.

Commissioned music video for Italian composer Fabrizio Cardosa. Le Rondini is an experimental a-capella piece inspired by the first lockdown in Italy in 2020.

Animator on Efa Blosse Mason and Nia Morris short film A Moment Longer, produced by Winding Snakes Productions.

On a wet and windy, Welsh winter night, a lone woman escapes for a moment and is lost in a steaming bowl of spicy noodles.

2D animator on Lyric Video for the remastered version of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Love Kills’ commissioned by Queen

Worked on abstract patterns using Adobe Animate CC.

One of the Lead Storyboard Artists for Netflix children's show Buddi, including the Annie Awards nominated episode 'Snow'

Storyboarded 15 episodes.

Dreamy hand-drawn music video for belated Bristol kora musician and song writer William Newsome.