Nick Pascoal
I’m a designer and animator making visual stories, interactive experiences, and a short film about a lonely puzzle piece.
Currently at Cisco
Portfolio 2026
Open Transport 3000 — Personifying fiber optics
Concept, Art Direction, Storyboards, 3D Animation (Cinema 4D, Redshift), Editing
To help launch the Cisco Open Transport 3000, I developed a character-driven concept that personifies light traveling through fiber optic cable, making a highly technical subject accessible to a general audience. I created the concept before Cisco’s marketing team wrote the voiceover, then handled art direction, storyboarding, animation, and the final edit. The piece ran on Cisco’s social channels to drive viewers to the product’s white paper, and it marked a new creative direction for the brand: using character to explain infrastructure.
Universal Quantum Chip — Designing a clear visual metaphor for the quantum internet
Concept, Art Direction, Storyboards, 3D Animation (Cinema 4D, Redshift), Editing
Quantum computers are extraordinarily powerful, but each speaks its own language, and Cisco’s Universal Quantum Switch is built to let them communicate as a network. To complement a more technical companion piece, I developed the visual concept and metaphors that made the switch’s purpose clear to a general audience, working closely with a Global Communications writer and Cisco’s quantum research team to get every detail right. From there I handled art direction, storyboarding, animation, and the final edit, all on a tight timeline set by a coordinated launch.
Emergence(2023) — A personal short film about our relationship with technology
Writing, Art Direction, 3D Animation (Cinema 4D, Redshift), Score
After years of creating work for corporate social channels, I wanted to make something more cinematic, with a focus on mood, atmosphere, and camerawork. I wrote, directed, and animated the film in Cinema 4D and Octane, and composed its score on an Arturia MicroBrute analog synth.