2D & 3D Production
Motion Graphics
Video Editing
Writing & Direction
Skilled and Versatile
I am a Manchester / North-West / Uk based 2D & 3D animation specialist with over 15 years experience in the animation industry. I take a brief through from creative concept to final delivery, handling all stages of production with the utmost of care and attention to fine detail. I am a diligent and punctual ‘hands-on’ professional animator, constantly looking to improve myself with each new exciting project.
Skills Summary
Producing animation requires a huge set of varied skills, below is a quick summary of more pertinent skills I use on a daily basis:
- 3D Animation 100%
- 2D Animation 100%
- Motion Graphics 100%
- Video Editing 100%
- Illustration 85%
Blog On
News, inspiration, musings and general nonsense.
ITV Advert – ZSL London Zoo
I was absolutely honoured when I was asked to contribute my time to produce a 30 second ITV advert for ZSL London Zoo to run nationally to try and generate funds after a terrible year due to the covid outbreak. The project, sponsored by Polymateria, really was a joy...
Rotoscoping Fun: ZSL London Zoo
I have recently flexed my rotoscoping skills after a looooong time with quite possibly the hardest subject matter to work with; water! ZSL London Zoo are currently promoting their aquarium and I’ve been tasked with bringing some...
New Work: Nuclear Skills Conference 2019 Intro
I love it when a job comes along where you are basically being paid to have fun! This was one of those jobs. The weird part was that I had a very strong memory of late night 70’s science BBC things, with these really retro...
In Production: ‘Smart Water Distribution Networks’
I’m currently coming to the end of a fabulous presentation for ATi technologies’ ‘Smart Water Distribution Network’ concept presentation for their upcoming huge technology conference in Miami this March (2019). They initially simply wanted a redesign of their, frankly...
New Work: Metapack Explainer
Wow, this was a HARD week. I was contacted out of the blue to produce a 1:30 – 2 minute 2D explainer animation for e-commerce delivery experts ‘Metapack’. After a longer than expected script and storyboard development phase, I had an immovable production time of just...
New Work: London Zoo
I recently had the wonderful pleasure of working on several campaigns for both London and Whipsnade Zoo for their year-long ‘Superheroes’ campaigns. Edit Brand studio brought together a fabulous team consisting of illustrator Andy Smith, wonderful imagery by...
Freelancing problems as told by dinosaurs.
Not much to say about this one really other than I love it! And its both accurate and has some good pointers too. Click through for a chuckle and maybe to learn some good habits when it comes to organising your freelancing workload and practices. Article link.
Brickfast
This is just delightful. I’m a big fan of stop motion in general, but when it involves Lego AND breakfast? Yes! The usual home-made Lego stop motion movies are character based famous scene recreations; which is handy as the audio is right there already. But this...
New Work: Romero Insurance
This was such a fun animation to produce. The original brief called for immobile characters that were always sat and emoted with simple speech bubbles and icons. I completely revamped the storyboard, redesigned all the characters and environments and produced a fun...
Something to Say?
Whether you have a genuine work enquiry or just want to say hi, please feel free to drop me a line. I am currently available for new freelance projects, and I am always interested in new and exciting project proposals.
Site updated (July 2020).
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