Clara Bacou is a British animation director and 3D/AR artist working with Partizan across US, UK, and French markets, with talent management by MA Group. Based between London and Los Angeles, she specializes in emotive digital surrealism and ornate sculptural aesthetics, creating immersive animated experiences for music, fashion, and technology clients. Her directing credits include music videos for Coldplay ("We Pray - A Film For The Future"), Metronomy ("Walking in the Dark"), Blackpink ("Pretty Savage"), and Lil Nas X ("Star Walkin'"), as well as the Women's Rugby World Cup opening titles. She has led groundbreaking extended reality campaigns for Louis Vuitton (including AR design for "Louis The Game"), Nike, Dior, Spotify, and Takashi Murakami's exhibition at The Broad museum in Los Angeles, which garnered coverage from The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. As part of Snapchat's inaugural Official Lens Creator programme, her AR filters have amassed over 40 million views and 35 million shares. In 2023, she was hired by Meta as a 3D Designer for their Creative Engineering team to work on the Orion AR eyewear project. Her work has been featured in Forbes, DAZED (named to DAZED 100 in 2023), Adweek, and exhibited at Art Basel Miami, Pictoplasma Berlin, and the Beeple x Christie's grand opening in Charleston.