Rigging/animating on a couple of idents for MTV Spike.
Freelance Animator
GroundControl
January 2015 - February 2015
Freelance Animator
BLINK
January 2015 - January 2015
Some exploratory work for a commercial pitch.
Freelance Character Animator
Mainframe
December 2014 - January 2015
Animating/rigging some robots for an ad.
Freelance Animator
FIELDTRIP
September 2014 - November 2014
Animated some sloths for a couple of ads directed by UBIK.
Freelance Animator
Mainframe
July 2014 - September 2014
Lead animator (with some rigging tasks) on a spot for the Harrod's jewelry department. Worked with a great bunch of guys & gals at a super-chill studio.
Animator
Vertigo Films
March 2014 - June 2014
Freelance Animator
Seb & Seb
July 2013 - February 2014
Lead Animator - animating monsters of various descriptions for Vertigo Films' "Monsters: Dark Continent" [2014] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935302/
Freelance Animator
FIELDTRIP
June 2013 - July 2013
Animated on a handful of Direct Line commercials. It was a pretty slickly run job & had a great bunch of guys to work with too.
Freelance Animator
Unit Media
May 2013 - June 2013
Animated some characters on a commercial directed by Darren Robbie.
Freelance Animator
The Mill
May 2013 - May 2013
Previz on a commercial lead by Andy Nichols.
Freelance Animator
Not To Scale
April 2013 - April 2013
Animated on a really cute commercial directed by Pierre+Bertrand. Fun & chill work environment.
Freelance Animator
The Mill
March 2013 - April 2013
Animated fish for a Heineken spot, then did some animatics for a Rollex thing.
Storyboard artist
Seb & Seb
December 2012 - March 2013
Storyboarded action & VFX sequences for director Tom Green's "Monsters Dark Continent" [2014]. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935302/
Freelance Animator
Axis Animation
November 2012 - December 2012
Animated a few bits on the ridiculously good cut scenes for Halo4: Spartan Ops.
Some conversational/acting scenes & a big fightscene between a Spartan & an Elite. Great fun.
Freelance Animator
MPC
October 2012 - November 2012
Animated a dolphin under Lead Animator Ted Lister. The dolphin wasn't actually under Ted.
Animator
Axis Animation
August 2012 - October 2012
Animated a little bit on a super-secret cool project, which I can (annoyingly) not talk about.
Animator
Crystal CG International
May 2012 - July 2012
Animated one of those slightly awkwardly designed Olympic mascots for a Panasonic spot.
Animator
66London
April 2012 - July 2012
Animated a chicken doing kungfu. Obviously.
Animator
The Mill
April 2012 - April 2012
Did some work on a Burberry job, then animated a shot of the Bubbleman in one of the surf commercials, then did some animatics for a Mercedes thing.
Animator
Electric Theatre Collective
April 2012 - April 2012
Moved some stuff around & turned some stuff on & off in time to some music. Not sure if I can legally call it animation. Ended up looking great, so I'll take whatever credit I can get.
Animator
Electric Theatre Collective
February 2012 - April 2012
Animated a few little guys for a Nike gig.
Then did some background animation on a Cadbury thing.
Great bunch of guys, great place to work.
Animator
66London
November 2011 - February 2012
Previz & mostly generalist tasks for Sony stings/idents.
Animator
One Of Us
August 2011 - November 2011
Worked on a short animated sequence directed by Ben Hibon within the live action feature film "Mirror Mirror".
Animator
Smoke & Mirrors
February 2009 - August 2011
I've been lucky enough to work on some fun animation jobs. Mostly animation, with rigging & some generalist tasks.
animator
Rushes
January 2009 - February 2009
Animator
The Mill
January 2008 - December 2008
Did mostly generalist work with some animation. I got sent to their LA branch for a job for 6 weeks too, which was fun.
animator
beechwood
2008 - 2008
Worked in-house on their Play.com campaign. Modelling/Rigging/Animation/Rendering.
Animator
Axis Animation
2003 - 2008
A bunch of talented guys & gals. Their stuff always looks amazing. I animated on various FMVs & commercials.
Animator
Glassworks
December 2006 - January 2007
Worked in the back room where they set up a small area for 3 Maya ops to work on a commercial for EA. I modelled, rigged & animated a heart/speaker.
Animator
Rushes
2005 - 2007
A great place to work. Mostly did generalist tasks with some animation. Got to go to South Africa to do on-set VFX supervision.
Animator
LIME
2005 - 2007
Animated on a Disney show called "Smokey Silvers". Did concept art & animation for the Airwick farm animals series of bumpers.
Animator
Big Co
2005 - 2006
I animated on a short film called "Rogue Farm" directed by Gary Marshall, then rigged/animated on the first season of the KNTV show. The schedule was tight, but it was a lot of fun.
BigCo is now Superunami.
Who knows? Designer? Art guy? Story guy?
Ziptup
2003 - 2004
Designed some characters & locations (with the vital help from the awesome architect/designer Dennis Wong) for a children's martial arts show. The outline was written by the talented Richard Stanley (of Hardware/DustDevil fame).
animator
beyond capture / laparaguas
2002 - 2003
Animated an FMV on a Midway title. Designed & animated a title sequence for BBC Scotland.
Animator
VIS
2000 - 2002
Animated on "State of Emergency" (The most returned game in history, allegedly!)
Animated on "Brave".
Met a lot of really talented people during my time at Vis.
Animator
Ragdoll
1999 - 2000
As part of a small team of animators lead by Will Miller, I contributed all the animation for the title character & her dim henchman in Spike Milligan's "Badjelly the Witch", a stand alone TV special produced by Ragdoll. All animation was done traditionally. Turns out this was the one & only time I got to do an entire job using hand drawn animation.