Freelance

3D Generalist and Web Developer

December 2010 – Present

• Freelance 3D animation and visual effects work at London companies.
• Website maintenance for Wood BMW and Mini dealerships.

Impossible TV

Character Animator/3D Generalist

September 2009 – December 2010

www.impossibletv.com

• Character animator and 3ds Max generalist on Gaspard and Lisa, a pre-school television series produced by Chorion.
• Involved in the project all the way from pre-production until the delivery of the final episodes.
• Animated up to two minutes of footage on twenty of the episodes.
• Modelled and textured assets in the pre-production stage.
• Played an important role in making changes to existing shots as requested by the director and Chorion to ensure that they were finished to a high standard.
• Gaspard and Lisa is currently being broadcast on France’s TF1 and will be broadcast in the US on Disney Junior in 2012.

Pancentric

Front End Web Developer and 3D Artist

February 2009 – September 2009

www.pancentric.com

• Website and email building and creating 3D artwork for the web.
• Building websites and emails from Photoshop mock-ups for various clients, including Allianz, the BBC, Mattessons and RSA.
• ActionScript and Flash video work
• PHP WordPress development for Fly53 and Pancentric’s own website.
• Modelling, texturing, lighting, rendering and compositing a 3D environment for an equine insurance website using Softimage (www.yourstables.co.uk)

Web Freelancer

October 2008 – February 2009

www.woodbmw.co.uk

www.woodmini.co.uk

• Website maintenance and design/development, from the ground up, of new tactical micro sites for specific marketing campaigns for a leading group of BMW and MINI dealerships.

Jellyfish Pictures

3D Generalist

July 2006 – October 2008

www.jellyfishpictures.co.uk

Soho, London

• Animator, rigger and modeller on animation and visual effects for TV, web and cinema.
• Spent one year working on Fight For Life - the BAFTA, VES and RTS Award-winning BBC documentary series about the human body.
• Created motion-tracked facial animation on ITV’s Frankenstein.
• Modelling, rigging and animation on BBC’s In Search Of Perfection (a Heston Blumenthal series).
• Modelling, rigging and character animation on a series of web adverts for Digital UK, featuring their mascot character, Digit Al.
• Rigging, character animation and Flash facial animation for a series of cinema adverts for Lego.
• Animation on Jimmy Doherty’s Farming Heroes.
• Rigging and character animation for a series of television adverts for Lego Bionicle.
• Modelling, rigging and animation on various medical animation projects, including learning materials for medical professionals.
• Extensive liaison with clients, refining requirements and reviewing project progress.

Masters Degree

September 2004 – September 2005

Obtained an MA in 3D Computer Animation (see Education section)

The IT Group

Web Designer

February 2003 – August 2004

Harrogate, North Yorkshire

• The sole web designer for an online marketing solutions company, working closely with developers and clients.
• Designed and produced websites, online newsletters and tactical banner ads for leading retail clients.
• Produced original content for Masterfoods brands such as Mars confectionery, Whiskas and Pedigree pet foods.
• Designed an all-new version of www.whiskas.co.uk.
• Produced a Flash character-based animation as a screensaver for information kiosks used in numerous Asda stores around the UK.

Myriad Multimedia

Partner/Web Designer

July 2002 – February 2003

Leeds, West Yorkshire

• Set up and successfully ran a web design partnership, which served various high-profile UK clients.
• Built both HTML and Flash-based websites and Flash animated business presentations.
• Won and delivered a major web design/development contract for the BBC and the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children's Services, creating a Flash-based e-learning resource for teachers.