ANIMATION

Working with animation studio ticktockrobot, I designed, storyboarded, and animated these two shorts for charity Revolving Doors. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Illustration

Working with production studio Mosaic Films and animation studio ticktockrobot, I designed, storyboarded, and animated this series of 6 shorts aimed at introducing Key Stage 1 and 2 children to some of the aspects of design and technology. Through the narrators interaction with a girl, a boy, and their enthusiastic robot helpers, different topics, from food, fastenings and materials, are explored.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Illustration

An animation that highlights Zapfiment's main services: storage, dispatching and inventory management, where the packages and parcels are the heroes.

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Campaign concept | Art Direction | Production | Storyboarding | 2D and 3D Animation | Compositing

University of Sussex wanted to communicate how agile working can be implemented effectively and highlight its benefits. The main focus was on policymakers, particularly stakeholders like the NHS, but the campaign needed to appeal to a broader audience in the working world as well.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

The task was to keep the aesthetic to that of a class room, so it was great fun to create 2D animations that got slightly broken by the textures of a chalk board.

Using stick man aesthetics again hammered home the class room / diagramatical nature I wanted to allude to.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Editing

DIGIT [Digital Futures at Work Research Centre] tasked us with producing a short animation and supporting infographics to explore why we send those emails we all wish we hadn’t, and how we can act differently in the future.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Script | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

The premise was simply to illustrate some of the surprising ways we could die based on actual sourced facts.

From a huge selection of data the commissioning editors at the BBC wanted to hone the surprising deaths to those that we really do skirt everyday. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

I lead a team where we were tasked with creating two animations [ with supporting posters and social media ] to highlight the University of Sussex's findings on the effects of working form home. The first film focuses on the results of the survey, the second film then focussed on how employers could effectively manage and assist their staff when working in the home environment.

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Creative Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

Animation illustrating Northumbria University's research into the ‘new normal’ – working remotely or from home.  It has offered both positives and negatives – all depending on everyone’s individual circumstance. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

A series of animated graphics illustrating how the human body moves and reacts during extreme stunts. The series featured snowboarding, skateboarding, wind surfing, ski jumping, BMX, cliff diving, kite surfing, parkor and many other stunts.  I manually animated the marionette from supplied footage for each one!

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Art Direction | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design

Animated graphics explaining Coventry University's research into the lived experiences of people from the disabled and neurodivergent communities working from home.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design

Inspired by Dia de los Muertos - the Day of the Dead - this 36 minute abstract animation featured as part of a multimedia concert experience commissioned by the Houston Symphony.   The story, written by Oscar nominated producer Ben Young Mason, follows the tragic and dreamlike tale of two young lovers, set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, culminating in the celebration of the Day of the Dead. 

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Surgeon X is a comic set against the backdrop of an antibiotic apocalypse in near future London.  Its' creator, Sara Kenney, used science, research and medical experts to bed her fictional sci-fi in a reality becoming all too real as time ticks on.

A huge undertaking, I created a collection of assets including animated films, posters, logos and marketing materials in a multitude of styles. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration | Editing

Many of ticktock's clients are less familiar with the process of creating an animation.  The unknown variable can seem daunting.  This animation was designed to educate as well and entertain and highlight the studios ethos and approach. 

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Campaign concept | Art Direction | Script | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

Debt collection is certainly not something that people often want to shout about – so the challenge was to craft something that was of a positive tone rather than the preconceived negative ones.

I conceived of a world where cash flows in a cycle. Businesses are like machines; they need the cash to keep running. If that cash stops, the mechanics cease, as does the flow of cash back out to other businesses – disrupting the larger economy. 

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Art Direction | Production | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

Nexus Design wanted a welcome film for their prospective clients. The brief was that it had to reflect the brand and its core values; design, adaptability, originality and collaboration. I conceived a blank landscape that evolved and changed around an idea – highlighting how those initial thoughts can get lost and spiral out of control, before being guided by Nexus to fulfil and arrive at their goal destination.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Script | Compositing

An explainer made for animation studio ticktockrobot about how to use their bespoke online project tracker.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Script | Compositing | Graphic Design / Motion Graphics

This film was commissioned by the UN to highlight how industries can change with the correct influence and cooperation from governments to help reduce the level and impact of deforestation.

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Campaign concept | Art Direction | Script | Storyboarding | Animation Direction| Posters and Infographics

The brief was to create an animation and digital campaign to support the launch of a new online recruitment tool. After talking at length with the founders, I decided the best approach to explain what it is and how to use it, was to tell the narrative between two people – a recruitment manager and a job seeker. This put focus on the importance of this relationship from both sides. In finding not only the right person for the job but the right job for the person.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

This film was commissioned by the UN to highlight how industries can change with the correct influence and cooperation from governments to help reduce the level and impact of deforestation.

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Campaign concept | Art Direction | Script | Storyboarding | Animation | Editing | Posters and Infographics

This film was commissioned by the DNDi to illustrate to a learned press conference their new initiative to discover life saving drugs for third world countries - by utilising existing compound libraries of large pharma and speeding up the discovery process thereby reducing cost.

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Campaign concept | Art Direction | Script | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

The film that both advertises the clients firm and its ethos, but also explains to potential customers the full process of what’s involved when you plan to extend your home.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

A TV advertising campaign to highlight the unique selling points of Dream's services and products.

I directed a series of animations, as well as a promotional micro site, featuring our whimsical character creation 'Sleepy Ed' inspired by a head resting on a pillow. The clients wanted it to be family friendly, so we crafted an aesthetic that paid homage to childrens television like the magic roundabout.  Richard Briars voicing the spot was the cherry on top!

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Creative Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Graphic Design

A short fun animation to highlight how certain packaging is important and necessary in today's world.

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing

I created this fun, comic book inspired promo by photographing [ with the help of my daughters hands ] the prizes and animating them into a fun action sequences, using the client supplied script and concept. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Photography

Two videos that explore how our cultural perceptions of both the male and female body have changed over the decades.

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Art Direction | Rig Build | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Illustration

A short little sting I made for Wired Magazine in the US with the fantastic illustrator Steve Wilson.

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A promo spot for Cartoon Network advertising re-runs of the infamous wanabee planet dominating duo. The client provided me with the 2D character animations of Pink and The Brain, which I placed into a full 3D set which was built, designed, rendered and composited by myself. 

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Art Direction | Build | Animation | Compositing

I was tasked with editing together supplied footage of a competition winners video and photo diary of their 5 destination trip. Additionally I designed and created graphics to help show the journey and provide some visual packaging to the film.

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A promo bumper for a season on Cartoon Netwrok dedicated to all things heroic. 

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Art Direction | Design | Build | Animation | Compositing

A competition spot that see's the CN logo live out it's lightsaber dream - all for Toy R US prizes!  I scanned in and re-built all the prizes in 3D [ well the boxed packges anyway ] so they could be fully incorporated into the sequence. 

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Art Direction | Storyboarding | Animation | Compositing | Graphic Design | Build and Rigging