Nicolas Nami

I'm just a curious kid from Iran where I always liked to play around with machines and figure out how things work. As a kid, trying to figure out keyboards and organs while pushing buttons and experimenting with them everyday made me more interested in just music, but got me into sound design and sound engineering as well.

Moving to Virginia in 1992, as a teenager I became interested in motion graphics when my uncle gave me the opportunity to play on his fancy Amiga "Video Toaster 4000" with "Lightwave 1.0" loaded. Since then, I started learning and figuring out softwares which I thought, I could make anything with to tell stories, and figure out new things.

In 1998, I had my first full time advertising agency job when I was attending collage full time as well. When I graduated, I moved to California and started a design firm with my father while capitalizing on Real Estate and Loan company clients. After the crash of housing bubble in 2008, I began working for other companies which were mostly owned by my old clients. This gave me the chance to study various small company structures while building friendships with many people in the production industry and also build a great resume. My daily motion graphics and video adventures have been challenging, educational and enjoyable.

In the evenings and weekends, I've been experimenting more with photography and learning how to create better mixes at my home studio while enjoying the beauty of the company of my daughter and my wonderful wife.

My philosophy is to give value to my clients first, and earn friendships. In life, my aspiration is to simply enjoy my life, family, and friends.