CREATIVE
STUDIO
Our crew is not only ready to travel to new worlds; we create them, no matter where our imagination takes us.
We have 10 years of experience exploring and creating side by side with prestigious agencies and clients from Lima and New York
Nelson Wissar
Henry Gates
Creative Director and founding partner of Zeppelin, Henry is an artist with more than twenty years of experience and is an expert in the field of visual effects, art direction, compositing, and color grading.
In 2007 he was invited to one of the biggest animation festivals in the world “Animamundi 2007” Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he was chosen to be part of the workshop “Creating Believable Characters” with Pixar’s Animation Director, Mark Walsh.
In 2008 he was finalist in the prestigious competition “Pasaporte para un artista”, organized by the French Embassy in Lima, with the video installation “Presencia ausente”. He also has several awards for short films produced and directed by himself such as “Turn On” which won several prizes and was exhibited in some of the major global film and animation festivals: Clermont Ferrand (France), Animamundi (Brazil), FIAK (Japan) Berlinale (Germany) etc.
The same year, he also directed the music video of the song “Transmisor” for the band “Catervas” which was in rotation for several months on MTV.
Also in 2008 he was selected to be part of the Talent Campus of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival “Berlinale”, where he took workshops with film personalities such as the renowned German director Wim Wenders, or the actors Tilda Swinton and Willem Dafoe.
In 2012 co-directed along with Nelson Wissar, the commercial for the Peruvian League Against Cancer: “Coffins”, which made them award winners as “best directors in the region (Peru)” in the prestigious advertising festival “El Ojo de Iberoamérica 2012” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Where they also were awarded with “El Ojo de Oro” for the best animated commercial of Latin America.
In 2015 he participated from Lima in the International Biennial of Digital Art “The Wrong” (Again), with the video-installation entitled “One” that was a co-creation with Javier Castillo (Vicho) and Santiago Pillado-Matheu, under the curatorship of Johann Velit.
In 2019, he co-directed, together with Nelson Wissar, the main commercial for the Lima 2019 Pan American and Parapan American Games, a commercial that won the silver trophy at the IDEAS advertising festival organized by the Peruvian Association of Advertising Agencies (APAP).
In February 2020 he was invited by the prestigious platform “Doméstika” to teach along with Nelson Wissar, the online course “Conceptualization and animation in Animation”.
From 2016 to date, Henry has been collaborating as a visual artist with the cultural project based in Lima, Bulbo, creating video mappings and visual installations in different events and exhibitions.
Today, Zeppelin is one of the most important advertisement production companies in Perú.