Taylor Bleu / Mad House

Directing and editing for Taylor Bleu on Polydor Records. 

Commissioned by Polydor Records.

Pro War (Redux)

Music video for Globo - Pro War reissue

Notion

Directing and editing for Notion x Willow Kayne - Waiting 

Commissioned by Polydor Records.

Adibanti - One Door Closes

Nominated at the UKMVA Awards 2022 for Best Dance/ Electronic Music Video - Newcomer

REZZ FT. PVRIS - SACRIFICIAL

CLIENT
RCA Records / Sony Music Entertainment

VENUE
Official Music Video, Touring Visuals

SCOPE
Creative Direction & CG Production

Additional 3D Assets: Zane Rogers

Commissioned by RCA Records.

Commissioned by Sony Music Entertainment.

A Balsa feat. Antonia Morais - Rota de Fuga

Nominated at the MVF Awards 2021 for Best Upcoming Brazilian Director

REZZ FT. PVRIS - SACRIFICIAL

SACRIFICIAL

CLIENT
RCA Records / Sony Music Entertainment

VENUE
Official Music Video, Touring Visuals

SCOPE
Creative Direction & CG Production

Additional 3D Assets: Zane Rogers

Commissioned by RCA Records.

Commissioned by Sony Music Entertainment.

REZZ x YULTRON - HELL ON EARTH

DEPLOYMENT
Official Music Video / Digital Release

SCOPE
Creative Direction, Direction & CG Production

CREDITS
Director: Jonni
Additional 3D Production: Jordi Den Hoedt
Editing & VFX: Asking Gee

Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas

Matt Hutchings was commissioned by BMG to animate this charming, heartfelt video to celebrate 50 years of Greg Lake's iconic track 'I Believe In Father Christmas'.

The video utilises a mixture of traditional animation, motion capture and a series of old Photoshop paint filters to create a visually striking, illustrative tale of Christmas spirit, told through a generational tale between a father and his son.

Commissioned by BMG.

A Balsa - Veraneio Temporal

Featured by Rolling Stone Brasil

Armand Van Helden, Mark Knight, D. Ramirez - You (Official Video)

Official AI Music Video 

Commissioned by Toolroom Records.

I Watch You

Went for a 70s Italian horror vibe with this one....

Corella - Thunder Strike

An emotional exploration finds a couple immersed in a fantasy of psychedelic sensory visuals and music. Beautifully shot on 35mm in an abandoned art deco amphitheatre, where world-bending animation disseminates from the powerful percussion of Thunder Strike.

Commissioned by Velvet Hammer.

Leave The Planet

Went for a nineties shoegaze homage for this one....

Wheels on the Bus - Animated Music Video

The Wheels on the Bus - Performed by Hen House - Animated by Katie Borkin 

https://youtu.be/jpvfcGl98EE?si=PT9oof_ggvAS9Z-g

No More Drama

Shot this in a day in a studio in Bermondsey

Lily Juniper - Way To Love

Edit, grade and titles

My People

Design, shot selection, edit, effects, and grading of footage provided.

Commissioned by Earache Records.

Baby Don't Love Me

Low budget video using self-shot footage. Full edit, grading and effects layers to bring things to life.

Collin Clauson 'Loud'

Official music visuals for Chicago based musician Collin Clauson

Cutout photos of flowers collaged in tightly synced visuals
hypnotically connecting to the beautiful electronic instrumental 'Loud'

2D motion graphic animation of ripped paper flower photos.

No AI was used in the making of this video.

Animating this piece manually was a therapeutic experience.
Getting lost in the process brought me some peace at the time.

Great to be back collaborating with my Chicago friends!
Previous projects connected to Collin Clauson include:
Monobody     Nnamdï     Lynyn

Released end May 2026

The Simpletone - SPIDERS

Spiders is taken from the album "The Eternal Now" (2026)
Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by PROVOKE FILMS

Ajay Mathur - Ungrateful

Sometimes the strongest thing you can do is walk away. "Ungrateful" chronicles the trajectory of a love that once felt infinite – "I touched the stars and the moon, the sky" – before reality intervened. The lyrics capture the painful recognition that devotion and effort can't always save a relationship, repeating the sobering truth: "The harder we try, the deeper we fall… Love is the most ungratful game of all." Yet from pain comes clarity. Driven by a groove that feels both worldly and intimate, the song transforms heartbreak into self-determination as the narrator releases what no longer serves: "Just not my game anymore… I'm free."

Music & lyrics by Ajay Mathur & Mary Lou von Wyl
Published by Ajay Mathur Music GmbH
Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by Provoke Films
2026

Diva Vox - White Room

What does it mean to be holy in a room by yourself? ‘WHITE ROOM’ is about that stark, self-made altar, and the holiness found in total containment before it inevitably cracks...

CREDITS: Written & Performed by Diva Vox Video Directed by Ciro Ayala Producer: Diva Vox Executive Producer (LA): Victoria Ayala Executive Producer (Reykjavík): Elín Ragnarsdóttir Cinematographer: Jón Þór Stefánsson Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier

All My Love

My short animation for Coldplay's "All My Love"

Peoni for the room

dp and edited video for the room

Diva Vox - Inner Love

Diva Vox - 内心的爱 (Official Music Video)
Directed by Ciro Ayala Executive Producer: Victoriya Ayala Script by Diva Vox Shanghai Cinematographer: Claire Hövermann Producers: Diva Vox and Ciro Ayala Post-Production by Provoke Films Filmed in Shanghai, Los Angeles and Reykjavík a SILA Visionary Art production 2025

Diva Vox - The Pulse (Euro Trance Instrumental)

This visual journey for the instrumental version of "THE PULSE" translates its high-energy Euro-Trance rhythm into a celebration of aesthetic form. The video elegantly intertwines the sleek, powerful beauty of architectural design and dynamic color fields with captivating, artistic shots of the Icelandic sensation Diva Vox, creating a hypnotic narrative of desire and movement, where geometry and human presence unite in a storm of pure passion.

Video directed by Ciro Ayala DP: Jón Þór Stefánsson Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier Makeup & Stylist: Guðrún Berg VFX by Provoke Films Produced by Sila Visionary Art Songwriter and Vocals: Diva Vox Producers: Diva Vox and Ciro Ayala Iceland • 2025

Rio 18 - Impossible

Animated music video for Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18's single Impossible

Chelsea Right to Work

Two cameras, an original Punk band from the seventies and 2 hours in a rehearsal room. What could possibly go wrong. Great fun. Quick turnaround, massive sound.

Commissioned by Cherry Red Records.

Johnny Stimson 'Holding On'

Official music video for Johnny Stimson.

Set in the aftermath of an extravagant party, Johnny Stimson
performs this heartfelt song on a grand piano in an empty and trashed venue.

Black & White live action film.

Shot at Bush Hall in Shepards Bush, London.

Director / Camera / Editor: Stephen Smith
Assistant Camera: Garry Smith
Location Manager: Alix Perry

Released Sept 2015

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Oasis - The Shock Of The Lightning (Official Visualiser)

Agency: I'm Your Boss

Director: Chris Curtis

Art Director: Mario Wagner

Animation: Jack Pell

TDWT

They Don't Want This - Junoflo

Directed and Edited by Minh Nguyen

Ginkgos - Say it Anyway

Ginkgos - Say it Anyway

Commissioned by G Major MGMT.

Nightmare on Rezz Street 2 - Live Visuals

Nightmare on Rezz Street 2

Client: Void Design

Role: Art Direction, Concept Development & CG Production for “ID11”

Music Video - RayRay Hide & Seek

Music video of "hide & seek".

Directed by @askinggee

Role: 3D Visual Design and Animation

Rossana - The Entertainer

Rossana - The Entertainer

Client: BaitRecords

Directed by Ângelo Varela, Gonçalo Palma, Alexandre Muge and Rossana

Produced by Luis Pita and Kletick
Concept by Rossana and Rúben Carneiro
Cast: Hannah Mendel, Azeri Agheyeva, Mike Los, and Claire Stenning
DOP/Colour by Ângelo Varela
Camera Assistant: Alexandre Muge
Costume/Set design by Rúben Carneiro
Edit/VFX by Gonçalo Palma
BTS by Paulo Madureira and Rodrigo Santos

The Revivalists (ft Portugal. The Man) 'It Was A Sin'

Official music video for American rock band THE REVIVALISTS
classic song 'It Was A Sin' featuring PORTUGAL. THE MAN.

Award nominated for Best Film 'Misfits & Mavericks' catagory at the Northampton Film Festival 2026

Asleep in the back of his beaten up car, a cut and bruised man
careers along a precarious track, high up in the mountains.

A story about self destructive behaviour after a traumatic event.

Produced by Concord Records
Released Oct 2025

Commissioned by Concord Music Group.

The Budos Band - Overlander

For Budos Band's latest single Overlander I revisited some techniques I developed a little while back, putting a fresh twist on them. The foreground animation's built with a virtual set in Unreal Engine 5.5, comped with a whole load of painting textures developed with sd1.5, while the animated background skies and clouds are all classic After Effects, which also covered the compositing as well as a load of visual effects and messy grading.

Incredible project to work on, thanks to Brian Profilio (@b.profilio.art) for working with me to build on his original artwork for the band's new album VII.

WAR

After the collapse, men sacrificed flesh for simulation binding all future sons to an artificial eternity. Women Chose freedom. From the ashes, they forged digital avatars not to rule, but to reveal the truth. For centuries, the battle raged. A war of sexes, of ideologies... Yet neither could see the truth. The virtual world was a cage. The battle, a test. And the architect? Not man. Not woman. A savage god......watching.....learning....

Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by John Sterling
Artistic Vision by John Sterling and Ciro Ayala
Executive Producers Victoria Ayala and Ciro Ayala
Edited by Jean-Luc Fortier and Ciro Ayala
CGI VFX and Post Production by Provoke Films
Mixed and Mastered by Dmitriy Redko

2025

Steve & Willie - Faithfully (Music Video)

Very honoured to have worked on this video for Steve Perry & Willie Nelson’s new rendition of the Journey hit ‘Faithfully’, released on Dark Horse Records.

You can find out more about the recording here.

Sleeping in Public

Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written and Produced by Jefferson Berry

2025

Lane 8 - Childish (Official Music Video)

Really delighted to have worked with Lane 8 and their label This Never Happened on this video for their new single ‘CHILDISH’.

Commissioned by This Never Happened.

The Land Of The Leaf Blower and the Mighty SUV

Directed by Ciro Ayala | Produced by Roger Street Friedman | 2025

My Passion

Official music video for "Passíónið Mitt" (My Passion) by Diva Vox

Music Video Credits: Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written by Diva Vox

DP: Jón Þór Stefánsson

Executive Producer: Victoriya Ayala

Producers: Elín Ragnarsdóttir and Ciro Ayala

Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier

CGI VFX by Provoke Films

Produced by СИЛА VISIONARY ART (Iceland)
 

Huun-Huur-Tu / Carmen Rizzo / Dhani Harrison - Boidus (Music Video)

Very excited to have worked on this visualiser for Dark Horse Records’ new release from Dhani Harrison, Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu, called ‘Boidus’, the lead single off their collaborative album ‘Dreamers In The Field’ which you can find out more about here.

Stop Motion Demo Reel

Sizzle Reel of Stop Motion Goodies

Commissioned by Various Artists Management.

Music Video The Spaceship Takes Off 2N3055

Video concept, script, storyboard, visuals and motion graphics, editing. 

I Want to Laugh Until I Cry

Music by Diego Philips

Concept and Animation by Paolo Russo

Seen You Before - Music Video

Seen You Before – FuturePast Zine

Looping Music Video for Digital Single | Memory, Distortion & Repetition

Overview

Seen You Before is a looping short music video commissioned by FuturePast Zine for the release of a digital single. Created as a social promo asset for Spotify and Instagram, the piece explores how memory distorts perspective, drawing visual inspiration from Inception-style recursion and spatial paradox.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D (Camera Mapping), After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

Built around the concept of memory loops and fractured timelines, the video features a seemingly ordinary room that subtly shifts and reconfigures each time the camera passes through a door. Though the setting appears unchanged, the objects, lighting, and spatial relationships morph with each cycle, creating a disorienting and poetic sense of déjà vu.

By using camera mapping techniques in Cinema 4D, I was able to texture the space with photographic realism while allowing for animated distortions and transitions. The result is a seamless, loopable video that plays with time, space, and perception — echoing the emotional ambiguity of the track it accompanies.

Process Highlights

• Used camera mapping to project real-world textures onto 3D geometry.

• Built a seamless loop that evolves subtly on each pass-through.

• Composited in After Effects to layer distortion effects and spatial transitions.

• Designed specifically for loop playback on social media platforms like Instagram and Spotify Canvas.

Credits

Client: FuturePast Zine
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Quadra 163 - Music Video

Quadra 163 – Fabrice Lig – Spin Coaster

Official Music Video | Brutalist Sci-Fi Environments & Motion Design

Overview

Quadra 163 is a music video created for electronic music artist Fabrice Lig, designed to visually accompany his track Spin Coaster. The piece explores a surreal, post-human narrative set within an abandoned space base—a lone survivor travels to an empty colony in space, they walk inside a vast, brutalist structure, wandering through empty architectural echoes until encountering a single living symbol: a solitary tree.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

This video draws from themes of isolation, memory, and renewal. The environment—an immense brutalist warehouse-meets-space station—evokes feelings of past technological collapse and quiet resilience. Cinematic camera movement and slow-building tension guide the viewer through stark, symmetrical corridors toward a moment of emotional release.

The final encounter with the lone tree acts as a counterpoint to the mechanical world—suggesting survival, rebirth, or even hallucination. The visuals reflect the tension and energy of Spin Coaster through minimal colour, fog, and rhythmic animation.

Process Highlights

• Designed and animated a sci-fi-inspired brutalist environment using Cinema 4D.

• Synchronized camera and object movement with Fabrice Lig’s electronic track.

• Created a visual narrative using light, fog, and architectural repetition.

• Used After Effects for post-processing, color grading, and atmospheric enhancement.

Credits

Client: Fabrice Lig
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop