Giorgos Nikopoulos was born in Katerini (Northern Greece) in 1987. He studied Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University where he specialized in animation and performing arts. He has worked as a theater actor and as assistant director to Dimos Avdeliodis (2010-2013). In 2014 he founded Baubo Productions and made his first animation short film ”Butter Bunny and his Grape Must Cookies”. In October 2013 he started doctoral studies at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts at the Ionian University, working on a thesis about the affinities between animation and shadow puppetry. His first animation feature film ”THEOX” premiered in November 2017 at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival and went to on to win distinctions in festivals abroad. In 2018, he was one of the 15 film awardees of ARTWORKS at the SNF Artist Fellowship Program.