Animator and art director with more than 30 years of experience creating award-winning television, games, educational products and interactive media. Combines hands-on animation and art production with visual development, pipeline design, team leadership and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Credits include Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom, Hey Duggee!, Moshi Monsters and Teach Your Monster. Experienced in guiding projects from concept and pre-production through asset creation, rigging, animation and implementation in game engines.
Peppa Pig, The Secret Show, Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, and Hey Duggee.
I also co-created some mobile games, such as Foxtrot! and Pixelgrams: Pixel Puzzles. I worked as a Flash animator on Moshi Monsters. I am currently working with Teach Your Monster, helping them make apps and games for kids.
I taught 2D animation techniques using TV Paint to the 1st year, life drawing to all years, and mentored 2nd year animation projects. I loved it.
I studied for, and secured, a Master of Arts in Digital Film Making. I made short films using Flash, After Effects and 3D Studio Max. It was around this time I discovered Blender (before it went open source).
I made a lot of interactive Flash games for the DART Maths project.
I designed and animated interactive content for museums and art galleries, mostly using Flash but also Macromedia Director. What a job, I absolutely loved it.
I left school not knowing what I wanted to do in life. But I did love London, so I moved there and got a series of low status, low paid jobs. After all kinds of adventures, I bought myself an Apple computer (a Performa) and taught myself animation with Future Splash Animator. That was the start of it all.