Alex Watson

Alex Watson

Animator / 12 yrs

United Kingdom

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Work History
  • Freelance Animator

    The CharacterShop

    October 2018 - Present
    Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Freelance Animator

    Flipbook Studio

    June 2018 - Present
    Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Animator

    Jellyfish Pictures

    February 2023 - June 2024
  • Freelance Animator

    MPC

    October 2019 - December 2019
    London
  • Animator

    Blue Zoo

    May 2019 - July 2019
    London, United Kingdom
  • Freelance Animator

    A Productions

    April 2019 - May 2019
  • Freelance Animator

    Wizart

    November 2017 - October 2018

    Remote freelance character animation for the films "Sheep and Wolves 2" and "Snow Queen 4".

  • Freelance Animator

    Arx Anima

    April 2018 - July 2018

    Remote character animation for "Talking Tom and Friends".

  • Freelance Animator

    Doodle Productions

    January 2018 - April 2018

    Remote character animation for "Messy Goes to Okido".

  • Freelance Animator

    ELEMENT ANIMATION LTD

    September 2017 - March 2018

    Remote freelance character animation for online film using C4D.

  • Freelance Animator

    2d3D Animations

    July 2017 - February 2018
    Angoulême, France
  • Freelance Animator

    Reflex Gaming Limited

    November 2017 - December 2017

    Remote freelance character animation.

  • Animator

    The CharacterShop

    March 2011 - July 2017
    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    I worked at CharacterShop for 6 years. I worked across a wide range of projects and did tasks including animation, rigging, lighting, rendering, compositing, effects and scripting. Some projects include:

    -Disneyland Adventures for Xbox Kinect - Animation (In-game and cut scene).

    -Woolly and Tig TV Series for CBBC - Animation, lighting, rendering, compositing, MAXScript, tracking.

    -Woolly and Tig App for iPad - Animation and rendering.

    -CITV Share A Story TV Series - Animation, rendering and compositing.

    -CITV Idents - Rigging, animation.

    -War Of The Worlds commercial for Sony Music - Animation, effects, editing.

    -Brownlee Brothers Intel Ultrabook Demo Game - Rigging, animation.

    -Paper City Corporate Video Series for Tarmac - Animation, Lighting and rendering

    -Hubble, Bubble and Squeak Online Episode for Nick Jr - Rigging, animation, lighting, rendering.

  • Freelance Animator

    Reflex Gaming Ltd

    March 2017 - March 2017

    Remote freelance character animation for pre rendered game sequences.

  • Freelance Animator

    Agent Pekka

    January 2017 - February 2017

    I worked remotely for Agent Pekka on a number of character animation shots for a promotional video.

  • Freelance Animator

    Vermillion Films

    December 2015 - January 2016
    Birmingham

    I worked remotely for Vermillion on a series of character animations using 3D Studio Max ranging from action sequences to dialogue scenes.

Education
  • MA in Animation for Computer Games

    Sheffield Hallam University

    2009 - 2010
  • BSc in Computer Graphics

    Sheffield Hallam University

    2006 - 2009