In late 2014 I graduated an intensive 3 month Stop Motion/Character Animation course taught at the Aardman studio in Bristol, UK and run by the prestigious National Film And Television School.
The Claynation studio, as featured in the May issue of MacUser magazine.
This is a short Stop motion film I created for the large UK-based insurance company Aviva to promote a Hackathon event that was curated in London.
A montage of my most recent and favourite work over the past few years of working as a freelance stop motion animator. On each of these projects I have taken the role of animator, sometimes within a team and other times on my own, often taking the role of director/producer. This features work for clients […]
In 2013 I was commissioned to create a short promotion for Audi’s Fixed Price Servicing scheme with London based production company ‘Vertical Productions’. Acting as lead animator and Animation director I also worked with George Stapleton to complete the set and character design. The project was great fun and received very positive feedback from the […]
Working as a stop motion animator on a project for British Gas at The Team’s offices in London Bridge.
In 2013 I won the ‘student animation of the year’ award by the Royal Television Society for my 2011 project (made while I was at University of the West of England)
An image from an unfinished experimental time lapse film that was shot around Bristol. I plan on finishing it one day when I have a chance to go back and visit the city that I studied in.
In 2012 my entry to Red Bull’s Canimation film festival (Red Bull Gives You Springs) reached the final 5 in the student category.
Working on the Mushroom Tea music video back in 2011, using an experimental technique with a lightbox.
This is a compilation of some of my favourite animated segments I have created over the past few years. Everything in this showreel has either been animated solely by me, or with me acting as the lead stop motion animator. Music: Rawnald Ericson the Second – Starfucker
Life is short, not quite as short as this animation, but short, so get animating! I might end up using this (or an edited down version) as a Claynation.co.uk ident to go before or after my films from now on.