Nathan Love
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2006
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Nathan Love
Nathan Love is an independent animation and creative production studio based in New York City. Founded in 2006 by Joe Burrascano and Kate Burrascano, it creates character-driven stories for advertising, entertainment, music videos, interactive media and public education campaigns. Its work combines character design and world building with animation across traditional and digital 2D, 3D CGI, stop-motion and live-action hybrid formats.
The studio develops projects from initial ideas through finished production. Its creative and pre-production work includes concept development, story development, scriptwriting, art direction, storyboarding, visual development, character sculpting and previsualization. Production and finishing capabilities extend to animation, lighting, look development, rendering, compositing, color grading, sound design and final mix. This breadth supports projects ranging from commercial character campaigns and television identities to original animated shorts and museum experiences.
Character work across formats
Nathan Love's portfolio includes the animated music video From the D 2 the LBC for Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Nickelodeon's Winter Refresh station identity package, and cinematics and promotional animation for Electronic Arts' Dante's Inferno. Its Pokémon work includes the Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum campaign, the opening cinematic for the 2026 Pokémon World Championships and an animated location reveal for the 2027 championships.
The studio also applies character animation to health communication, including the Testicular Cancer Foundation's Nad & Tad, Concussion Awareness Now's Tiny Hazard and Voices of Alzheimer's Check, Mate. Other work spans comedy animation for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Pop Secret advertising and the original CGI short Mothership: The Awakening.
Company history
In September 2015, Aardman Animations acquired a majority stake in the studio, which operated under the co-brand Aardman Nathan Love. Following that ownership period, Nathan Love returned to independent operation and its current public name. It continues a creative partnership with Aardman, including collaboration on stop-motion and commercial productions.
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Leadership
The report identifies Joe Burrascano as Executive Creative Director, Anca Risca as Creative Director, Tim Probert as Art Director and Derrick Huang as Executive Producer. Kate Burrascano is identified as an owner and Creative Director.
Cloud production and team structure
In 2021, the studio moved rendering, storage and artist workstations to Amazon Web Services. The report describes a hybrid operating model in which a core leadership team works with freelance artists around the world, expanding production teams as projects require while retaining a physical New York headquarters.
Recognition
- From the D 2 the LBC received Gold recognition at the Shots Awards for 2D animation and at the Collision Awards, alongside an MTV VMA nomination for Best Hip Hop Video.
- The Void and Tiny Hazard received Collision Awards Gold recognition.
- Check, Mate received Anthem Awards Gold and Shorty Awards Silver and Audience Honor recognition.
- Nickelodeon's Winter Refresh received a Motion Awards honor; the Pop Secret campaigns received multiple Telly Awards.
- Mothership: The Awakening received Best Character Design and World Creation recognition at the FilmHaus Film Festival.
Creative collaboration
The continuing Aardman partnership includes US commercial productions and co-promoted projects such as Netflix's Robin Robin. Commercial sales are also supported by independent representatives for the US East Coast and Midwest, and the West Coast; these agencies are separate from studio branches.
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Where Nathan Love is based
- New York, United States
New York offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 241 Centre Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013, United States Phone: (212) 925-7111 Overall operating headquarters in Manhattan; the studio previously operated from 407 Broome Street. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 407 Broome Street, Suite 6R, New York, NY 10013, United States Former studio premises identified in the report as a historical operating address.
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