NOMINT
Moonshot ideas. Outrageous craft.
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- 2006
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About NOMINT
NOMINT is an independent animation production company and creative studio based in London. Founded in Athens in 2006 as an experimental design practice, it developed into an animation business before expanding to the United Kingdom in 2011. Its work spans advertising, branded content, broadcast campaigns and independent short films, combining physical craftsmanship with digital animation and technique-driven live action.
The studio approaches animation through the relationship between material and message. Its productions use stop-motion, practical effects, mixed media, frame-by-frame drawing and 3D CGI, with physical processes often becoming part of the storytelling itself. This approach supports work ranging from tactile commercial films to environmental campaigns built around materials that change during filming.
Craft-led storytelling
An ongoing collaboration with WWF illustrates this approach. Can't Negotiate the Melting Point of Ice used melting ice sculptures to communicate climate urgency, while A Flammable Planet incorporated real fire. Up in Smoke used smoke as an animated medium, and In Hot Water employed thermal imaging to visualize marine heatwaves. Across these projects, the production technique helps communicate the environmental subject rather than simply providing a visual style.
For BBC Creative’s Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics campaign, Trails Will Blaze, NOMINT combined physical replacement animation with pyrotechnics. Its wider portfolio includes YouTube’s Hit Pause media-literacy campaign, EHRAC’s In Limbo, sports campaigns and animation for consumer brands. Earlier independent work includes the surreal animated short The Holy Chicken of Life and Music, which helped establish the studio’s animation practice.
Production and collaboration
NOMINT supports projects from creative strategy and concept development through direction, fabrication, animation, visual effects, compositing and final delivery. It works with agencies, brands, broadcasters, environmental organizations, sports franchises and cultural institutions. Alongside its own production work, the studio represents international animation directors, bringing different creative approaches and specialist techniques into its commercial projects.
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Leadership and production model
- Co-founders Ioannis (Yannis) Konstantinidis and Christos Lefakis serve as directors and creative directors. Their backgrounds include architecture and theatre.
- Marilena Vatseri is Creative Director, Managing Partner and Executive Producer. Raymond Dennis Hobbs is Company Secretary.
- The studio combines a small core production and directing team with freelance artists, animators, technicians and represented directors as productions require.
Production methods in practice
- The ice-based WWF production required more than 500 polar bear miniatures, which melted frame by frame during filming.
- The 2026 Winter Olympics production used 700 3D-printed athlete models animated with real pyrotechnic ignition.
- Fire-based work combines live combustion with long-exposure time-lapse, extending the studio's practical animation techniques beyond conventional model animation.
Recognition
The report attributes an Emmy Award, multiple D&AD Yellow Pencils, Grand Clios and CICLOPE Grand Prix trophies to NOMINT's work. It also reports a number-one Film Craft Production Company ranking at the ADC Awards; award years are not supplied.
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Current and former locations of NOMINT
- London, England, United Kingdom
London offices
HeadquartersAbout this office
**Office** Status: active Headquarters Address: 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom Email: london@nomint.com Phone: +44 (0) 20 8004 6604 Office webpage: https://nomint.com/contact Opened: 2026 Global headquarters and main production studio, supporting client business management and the directing roster. Relocated here on 24 August 2026. --- **Office** Status: inactive / historical Address: 85 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LT, United Kingdom Closed: 2026 Former London premises, superseded by the move to 167-169 Great Portland Street on 24 August 2026.
- Athens, Greece
Athens office
Former officeAbout this office
Historical founding location of the experimental design practice. The report confirms that NOMINT no longer maintains an active commercial studio facility in Athens.
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