From a young age I have always been interested in the arts and fascinated with things that moved. I left school at 16 to study Illustration back in my home town in North Wales. After completing a 4 year ND/HND in Illustration, I ventured out of Wales to Birmingham completing a Degree in Visual Communication. It was at this time I spotted a animated short produced by a final year student, it blew my mind. Within a few months I picked up 3D studio Max and made a start on my first short 'Frog & Peach'. After winning a student award for my final end of term short 'Meat Daisy The Cow' I was taken on at a Houdini based company in London. Over the 3 years at Realise Studio I was trained up in Side FX Houdini where I was involved with all aspects of CG from texturing and shaders through to rigging and character animation. It was when I was taken on at Jim Henson's Creature Shop things really started to move rapidly for me. From then on I worked sourly as a character animator at Nexus Productions, Moving Picture Company, Double Negative and a number of Post companies in Australia, Canada and Spain. Over the years I have worked in many areas of CG from Music Promos and live visuals to Film and TV for the likes of Nickelodeon, Pepsi, Orange and Honda.

My interests don't just lie within animation. A number of years ago I got involved with Vjing (projecting live visuals to music) with an ex work colleague. It started off as a hobby but soon took off taking me to Morocco, Barcelona and a number of music festivals in the UK. It also led to a number of stop-frame animation workshops for summer schools. I feel with a little imagination, the art of character animation can help out in so many other areas.

I continue with the same enthusiasm as I had from the start and feel even after 10 years there is so much to learn from others. Last year I enrolled onto Animation Mentor to push my character skills. I feel I am now learning new skills faster than ever and look forward the future in this continuously changing and exciting industry.

WORK
2010 Double Negative (London)
2009 Image Engine (Vancouver)
2006-2008 Blue-Zoo (London)
2004 - 2008 Nexus Productions (London)
2006 MPC (London)
2007 Airside (London)
2005 The Lab (Australia)
2005 Collider (Australia)
2004 Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (London)
1999 - 2003 Realise Studio (London)

CREDIT LIST - Film
John Carter Of Mars Character Animator (in production)
Harry Potter and th Deathly Hallows Part2 Character Animator
Iron Man 2 Character Animator (uncredited)
District 9 Character Animator
This Way Up Character Animator
The Hogfather Character Animator
Happily Never After Facial Expressions/Skinning
Peter Cottontail Character Animator
5 Children and It Character Animator
Tomb Raider 2 Water FX
The Water Giant Water Animator

CREDIT LIST - Commercials
Orange ‘Mime’ Animator
Orange ‘Valentines’ Animator
Orange ‘Air Guitar ’ Animator
Honda ‘Hate’ Animator/Modeling
BBC News ‘Tax In The UK ’ Animator/Modelling
Pepsi 'Elephant Tower' Animator/Modeling
Audi 'Hendrix' Animator/Modeling
Goldfish Savings Animator/Rigging/Modeling
Mitsubishi Pre-Vis /Texturing
British Gas Animator/Rigging/Texturing
Sony Modeler
Orange ‘faces’ Animator/Rigging/Modeler
O2 'Doves' Roto/Rigging
First Direct X 3 Animator
Listerine Animator
AOL Animator/Modeling
Aquafresh Animator/Rigging
Lexus Pre-Vis
Renault Animation
Zanussi Animation
Ministry Of Sound Animation/FX
AEG Animation
British Beef 'Beefy & Lamby' Animator

CREDIT LIST - Pop Promos
Flogging Molly ‘Boat’ Animator
Beth Orton ‘Shopping trolley’Animator/Texturing/Modeling
Posh Spice ‘An innocent girl' Animator/Rigging

CREDIT LIST - TV Series
Stitchup Showdown Animation
Those Scurvy Rascals Animation
Scribble It Animation
Kerwhizz Animation
Headcases Animation

SOFTWARE
Maya
Houdini
3D Studio Max (C.A.T. / Character Studio)
Flash
Adobe Premier
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop

AWARDS
British Animation Nominated 2010 Flogging Molly
British Animation Nominated 2010 Stitchup Showdown
Oscar Nomination District 9
Oscar Nomination This Way Up
Ottawa Animation Festival 08 This Way Up
Palm Prings Short Film Festival This Way Up
Annecy BEst Music Promo Flogging Molly
British Animation Award 2006 Those Scurvy Rascals
D&AD Honda 'Hate'
Clio Bonze Pepsi 'Elephant tower'
BDA World Gold (New York) The Gethers
D&AD HSBC Little Fella
Creative Circle HSBC Little Fella
British Television Advertising HSBC Little Fella
George Jackson (student award) 'Meet' Daisy the Cow

EDUCATION
Animation Mentor (terms 1-4)
Fundamentals/Body Mechanics/Introduction to Acting/Advanced Acting
Ba (hons) Visual Communication Time Based Media
Birmingham 1997 - 1999
HND Illustration
North Wales Institute of Art and Design 1994 - 1996
ND Graphic Design/Illustration
Wrexham College of Art 1992 - 1994
A-Level Art & Design
Cartrefle 1993