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August 2024 - Present

Freelance Visual Development for TV, commercials and films:

• Aardman - working on three different projects with Aardman on both environments and characters

• Lupus Films - environments and character development

• BBC - environment and character development

• Official Movie Poster for “Light of the World” animated feature film

• Book Cover for Penguin Random House

• Developed my own Feature Animated Film pitch - pitched for a residency

May 2023 - Present

• Creating posters in collaboration with Spoke Art gallery such as Suzume (Anime in LA), The Land Before Time (Wondercon), All Dogs Go To Heaven (San Diego Comic Con) and An American Tail (New York Comic Con). And art prints for group shows such as Bad Dads: A Wes Anderson Tribute Show.

Jan 2023 - July 2024

Visual Development Artist and Background Artist for a 2D Feature Film.

• Helped develop the look for the feature animated film "Light of the World".

• Designed major sets for the film, and accompanying materials such as maps, exploded views and props.

• Pitched story ideas and how visually we could depict certain sequences through cinematography, lighting, value and colour.

• Designed layouts and painted final key backgrounds to hand off to our vendor studio's background art team.

• Designed parts of the colour script.

• Created quick background parallax and look tests in After Effects.

July 2022 - July 2023

• Visual Development for: Cartoon Network, Spinmaster, Not to Scale, Art & Graft.

• Directed and created (including all animation) Manchester Animation Festival’s sting announcement.

• Helping develop a 2D feature film with Severn Screen.

• Illustrated a book with Penguin Random House.

Jan 2022 - June 2022

• In-house Art Director at London studio Golden Wolf.

Oct - Dec 2021

• A short stint on Wendell & Wild towards the end of production. I painted over a couple of finished filmed sets to show how they could be improved with a matte painting, and these ideas were taken through to the final film. Provided ideas for background skies and trees.

May 2020 - October 2021

• Visual Development and Lead Background Artist.

• I defined the environment style of the cancelled Toil & Trouble from creator Lauren Faust.

• I was brought on early with just our art director Justin Martin and lead character artist Izzy Abreu, and the three of us spent 6 months developing the look and sets of the film. We were designing as the scripts were still being written, so I was able to pitch multiple story and set ideas that were written into the film episode scripts.

• Designed locations & props.

• I lead the Background Art team, providing detailed videos of my process in getting the style of the background line and paint correct and giving constructive and clear feedback on my teams backgrounds to keep everyone on style.

• I helped create the style guide for the show, creating pages of work detailing to how to get the correct the linework, colours, different town architectural styles, FX and more.

June 2019 - May 2020

• Represented as a Director by “The Greenhouse” (Passion Pictures) and Troublemakers (still represented to this day).

• Illustrated books and book covers with publishing houses such as Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Farshore, Macmillan Imprint, Oxford University Press etc.

• Created Passion Pictures’ Christmas short film.

Aug 2015 - June 2019

• Hired initially after I graduated as a Concept Artist. Worked my way up to Art Director and Director.

• Directed the award-winning short film “Via” here.