Andrew Butler

Andrew Butler

Lead Rigging Artist / Creature Supervisor / 16 yrs

London, United Kingdom

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Work History
  • Rigger

    Framestore

    January 2015 - Present
  • Artist tools, rigging, pipeline design and development

    Passion Pictures

    October 2013 - December 2014
    London, United Kingdom
  • Tech-Anim

    MPC

    January 2013 - November 2013
    Soho, London

    Various projects. Lead position for Percy Jackson 2: Sea of Monsters and currently cloth rigs and simulations for Maleficent.

  • Rigging

    Rising Sun Pictures

    June 2011 - March 2012

    Character TD

  • Hair / Cloth TD

    Sony Pictures Imageworks

    November 2010 - May 2011


    Cloth TD on Smurfs

  • Hair / Cloth TD

    Image Movers Digital

    June 2009 - November 2010
  • Character TD

    Framestore

    March 2007 - June 2009
  • Character TD, rigging

    Framestore

    2007 - June 2009


    Creature TD on:
    The Golden Compass

    Rigger on:
    - The Dark Knight: Two Face/Harvey Dent's burnt face rig.
    - Sherlock Holmes
    - Prince of Persia
    - Tale of Despereaux (storybook sequence)
    - Primeval Series 3
    - Various in Framestore's commercials department

  • Animator

    Guava Visual Effects, Adelaide

    June 1997 - October 2003


    As a small commercials effects house, my skills required me to be involved in all aspects of the VFX industry from modelling and animation, to lighting, dynamics and design.

  • ImageMovers

    ? - Present