About

POSITION
Animation Director.
Lecturer. MA Animation. LCC. University of the Arts London.
Working from London, UK.

BIO
I am a film maker and animator, moving pictures with ink, paper and digital paint by hand. I have collaborated with clients including Paul McCartney, Prada, Dyson and lecture on MA Animation at UAL. My latest project in development can be found here.

AWARDS
British Animation Award - Best 2D Commercial
Kinsale Shark Award Silver - Best Animation
London International Award Bronze - Best Animated TV Film
Cannes Lions SHOTS Young Director - nominated
British Arrows Craft Awards animation category - shortlisted

EXPERIENCE
2022-2026 UAL
2015-2022 UCA
2015-2022 HU_SH
2011-2014 Tandem Films
2009-2011 Th1ng

CONTACT
vida@vidavega.com
vimeo.com/vidavega

Dyson
Airwrap & Supersonic

Using hand drawn, elegant illustrations with a feminine feel, Dyson's signature tech is brought to life in animation for the first time in their special edition Airwrap and Supersonic Holiday gifting campaign. The three films created are modular, allowing different sections to be cut together for socials and TV, all within a narrative of seamless transitions following a thread of moving airflow.

ROLE Art Direction · Animation · Illustration
CREDITS HU_SH · Lydia Russell · Dyson · Marta Lemos · Stephen Vuillemin · Maki Yoshikura · Qian Shi

Prada
Raw Avenue

Six fashion and design illustrators from around the world contributed their work in a unique collaboration for the launch of Prada Raw Avenue, the brand’s newest venture in eyewear. From APRIL Milano in collaboration with Mill+, ACNE and Musikvernuegen, each eye-catching illustration was animated to bring life to the new line in a vibrant way. The project features illustrations from: Blair Breitenstein, Carly Kuhn, Judith van den Hoek, Megan Hess, Vida Vega and Wong Ping.

ROLE Art Direction · Animation · Illustration
CREDITS April Milano · Francesco Maria Tiribelli · Alessandro Farinella · Joakim Dahlqvist · Acne · Mill+ · Musicvergnuegen
VISIT april.studio/prada-raw-avenue

Zedd
Papercut (Grey Remix)

A poignant collage of the excitement and ennui of youth in this dense and collaborative black and white music video for the “Papercut (Grey remix)” track from Grammy-winning producer/musician Zedd. Featuring 10 of Golden Wolf's favourite collaborators working together exquisite-corpse style, the only rule was to work in black and white with a hand drawn feel.

ROLE Animation · Illustration
CREDITS Golden Wolf · Ant Baena · Ingi Erlingsson · Ewen Stenhouse · Manson Tom · Bunker · Henrique Barone · Simon Leclerc · Robert Valley · Alex Grigg · Vida Vega · Shishi Yamazaki · Camilo Huinca · Benjy Brooke

Disney UK
Sketch To Screen

To coincide with the release of the live action feature Beauty & the Beast, Disney commissioned me to translate BAFTA and Academy Award winning costumer Jacqueline Durran's original designs for Belle's iconic yellow dress into moving fashion illustration. The film was made in collaboration with the Made Great in Britain campaign celebrating exceptional British creativity and craft.

ROLE Art Direction · Animation
CREDITS Disney UK · Feref London · Giorgia Aubrey · Fernando Guerrero · Sarah Ross

Tempo Tissues
Bike

The 30-second TV spot, “Bike,” was the first in a series for the pan-European “As Life Unfolds” campaign. A boy-meets-girl love story showing a bicycling boy racing to catch up with a girl captures Tempo’s reputation as a long-established and trusted brand in a commercial that engages consumers on an emotional level by showing how Tempo is a constant, caring companion throughout life. The idea is executed through hand-drawn animated stories brought to life through director Vida Vega's calligraphic brushwork and exquisite 2D animation and stop motion.

ROLE Art Direction · Animation · Illustration
CREDITS Publicis London · Noel Sharman & Stephen Glenn · Paul Quarry & Paul Burch · Th1ng · Nicolette van Gendt · Ed Roberts · Marcus Armitage · Fiona Woodcock · Belle Mellor · Anthony Farquhar Smith · Framestore · Grand Central · Owen Davey

Paul McCartney
When Winter Comes

When Winter Comes is a short animated film created by Geoff Dunbar and an all-female team, to illustrate a 1992 song released as the lead single of “McCartney III”. Animated in a painterly style we glimpse a family readying their farm for winter - a nostalgic reflection of the McCartneys' bucolic family life in Scotland. To create the music video, Paul enlisted the help of long-time collaborator Geoff Dunbar for a unique hybrid of hand and digitally drawn animation loosely based on Humphrey Ocean’s drawings of birds.

ROLE Animation · Illustration
CREDITS Geoff Dunbar · Ben Chappell · Isobel Stenhouse · Nicolette van Gendt · Lisa O'Sullivan · Stella Benson · Lizzie Baker

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Animated Editorial Illustration

A selection of editorial illustration for both print (outdoor campaigns, POS and magazine) and digital, all hand painted in a mix of digital and physical materials. Clients include Graff Diamonds, How to Spend It Italy, HD Buttercup and more.

ROLE Art Direction · Animation · Illustration
CREDITS How To Spend It Italy · Encycle · HD Buttercup