Niccolò Gioia is a young director and animator from Italy who has been producing his own animated stop motion videos with action figures and publishing them on his Youtube channel Lumaken Studio for more than ten years. After graduating as a Cinema and Media Engineer, he joined the multimedia production company Robin Studio, based in Turin, where he works as Head of Animation, story artist and director on a variety of projects in the cultural, artistic and advertising fields. He's been collaborating as stop motion animator on a variety of animated short films produced by the Academy Award-nominated COLA Animation and the Rome-based Fantasmagorie Studio.