Emanuel Nevado

Emanuel Nevado is a Stop-Motion animator and director. Emanuel has worked as an animator, director, screenwriter and puppet-maker. After completing a Master in Direction and Animation in Stop Motion (Escola d’Animació de Catalunya, Spain), he received a Certificate in Character Animation from the NFTS (National Film and Television School in England) in partnership with Aardman Animations. In 2014, he joined Aardman Animations, where he worked as an animator in projects like Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run, Shaun the Sheep, Early Man and Morph. He has also worked for Disney, animating in the TV specials Club Penguin. Currently working on Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu he is also an Animation Mentor at the Aardman Academy since 2020. In 2025 Emanuel was a VES Awards nominee for Outstanding Character in an Animated Feature for his work with Gromit on Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance most Fowl. He started working with COLA Animation in 2018 when he animated on the multi-awarded short film The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr. Jay. In 2020, Bruno Caetano (director of Mr. Jay and producer at COLA Animations) invited him to direct With Each Passing Day… Emanuel directed that project in Lisbon in 2023. Emanuel holds a degree in Musicology, from Nova University Lisbon, and studied Fine Arts at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (Lisbon).