I've had a lifelong interest in imagery, design and composition. Through my youth I studied drawing & painting which led me eventually to Art School in London, I swiftly embraced the moving image & animation, developing a deep interest in the techniques of character animation, the history of the form and a thorough knowledge of it's leading exponents and modern techniques. I pioneered computer animation at my university, eventually producing an internationally award winning short film as my graduation piece.

In the ten years since then I have broadened my skillset and horizons, working as a freelancer in many different fields from commercials to Children's series development.

Born:

Nationality:

8th of July, 1974

British

Q u a l i f i c a t i o n s

GCSE (10 )

A Level (4)

ART

ART

Grade A

Grade A

DESIGN

DESIGN

Grade A

Grade A

S o f t w a r e E x p e r i e n c e

3DSMax (Broad skillset - with expertise in many areas)

HairTrix Plugin (Expert level)

Brazil Renderer (Expert level)

V-Ray Renderer (Expert level)

Photoshop CS4 (Expert level)

Some experience with...

Mental Ray Renderer

Aftereffects / Final Cut / Premiere / Painter / Dreamweaver / Realflow

C G ( t e c h n i c a l ) S k i l l s e t

The graph below is perhaps a help in illustrating my capabilities and experience at various “hands-on” tasks. I am not a specialist - so it would be misleading to pretend to be an absolute “master” at any one particular thing. Likewise there are areas in which I have a strong theoretical understanding (eg character animation) but don’t actually get to do much of it myself. To further illustrate the point...while I fully understand the concept of dynamic muscle driven character deformation - I couldn’t sit down and rig such a system without a few days buried in the manual!

Bourse de la Creation.
IMAGINA ‘97, Monte Carlo.