2026

Ludovica Nani

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Hi! I'm Ludo, a graphic and motion designer currently completing a BA in Graphic Media Design, with a practice focused on motion graphics, live performance visuals, and experimental animation. My work explores the relationship between movement, typography, sound, rhythm, and atmosphere, often using abstract visual systems and cinematic approaches to create immersive experiences.

Inspired by music culture, film, and live performance environments, I’m particularly interested in designing visuals that interact with sound, anticipation, and audience energy. Recent projects include a voiceover-led motion film exploring cultural identity through references to Commedia dell’Arte, alongside a speculative live concert visual system designed for the K-pop group P1Harmony.

I mainly work across Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, and DaVinci Resolve, and I’m especially interested in pursuing a future within music and live performance design, creating visuals for concerts, stage environments, and artist-led experiences.

Passage

For this brief, we were asked to create a motion piece based on a piece of text. I chose to develop mine around ‘Italian Comedians by a Fountain’ (c. 1717-1718), a painting by Nicolas Lancret, using it as a conceptual starting point to explore ideas of identity, inherited behaviour, performance, and cultural repetition through motion design.

The painting references Commedia dell’Arte, a form of Italian theatre built around recurring archetypes and fixed social roles. I became interested in the idea of identity as something performed and repeated over time rather than something completely fixed or individual. This became the foundation of the project and influenced the way I approached movement, pacing, repetition, and transformation throughout the animation.

From this starting point, I wrote a personal script and recorded a voiceover, which became the structure of the film. The narration reflects on cultural identity, inherited behaviours, and the feeling of moving between collective roles and personal identity.

Rather than using literal storytelling, I translated these themes into abstract motion using simple geometric forms, layering, rhythmic pacing, and continuous transitions. The animation was created in Adobe After Effects, while DaVinci Resolve was used to edit the sound, apply EQ adjustments, and integrate subtitles into the final film.

A lot of the process involved experimenting with how motion itself could communicate emotion, reflection, tension, and change. This project honestly pushed me a lot technically and conceptually, but it also helped me understand motion design in a much deeper way beyond just animation.

New Harmony – Visuals for Live Performance

For my final major project, I created a speculative live performance visual system for P1Harmony, designing a mini concert experience made up of an intro film, visual systems for four songs, an interlude transition, and a final 3D stage mockup.

The whole project explores how motion, typography, particles, grids, rhythm, and disruption can work together within a live music environment. I wanted the visuals to feel like an actual part of the performance rather than just something playing in the background. Across the set, the system gradually moves from fragmented and unstable visuals towards synchronisation and resolution.

This project also pushed me technically a lot. I basically learned After Effects from scratch throughout the process, while also using DaVinci Resolve, Blender, and GarageBand for editing, sound design, rendering, and building the stage mockup. Blender especially nearly drove me insane at times lol, but I’m really happy I pushed through it because it allowed me to create outcomes I wouldn’t have been able to make a few months ago.

Overall, this project confirmed how much I want to work within music and live performance design in the future. Creating visuals that interact with sound, movement, atmosphere, and anticipation is definitely the direction I want to keep exploring.

Disclaimer: I do not own the music used in these videos. Four of the instrumentals featured belong to P1Harmony/FNC Entertainment and are used for educational purposes only within this university project.

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