About me

I am a Stop Motion Animator and Model Maker currently working for my own business, 'Home In Miniature', creating and selling model houses. I also make puppets and sets for animation, make stop motion music videos and paint in oils for commissions. 'Home In Miniature' was featured in 'Country Life', 'The Times', and 'Chichester Observer'.

I have worked on two animated music videos for Hannah Rose Platt and the punk band 'Drones'. Previously, I worked on 'Strike' as a model, set and puppet maker and compositor. I also created an online advertisement for 'Archibald Shaw' featuring flamingo and beaver puppets.

I graduated in 2014 with a first in Animation from The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Key Skills

- Stop motion animation

- Model and set making

- Puppet making

- Puppet rig removal and compositing ('After Effects')

- Casting/mould making with plaster and silicone

- Sculpting ('Plasticine'/ 'Super Sculpey'/ 'NSP Plasteline')

- 'Dragonframe'

- Adobe Creative Suite: 'After Effects', 'Photoshop', 'Premiere Pro'

- Shaky footage stabilisation

- 2D VFX such as smoke and water ('After Effects')

- Green screen (chroma-key) editing

- 'Adobe Flash' and 'Photoshop' for 2D animation

Skills

2d animation, After Effects, Animation, Film, model making, puppet making, stop motion animation

Sector Experience

Animation, model making

Awards

none

Clients

Archibald Shaw, Drones, Gigglefish Studio, Hannah Rose Platt, Lockjaw Records, Lottie, National Film and Television School, PigBird Studio, The Pharos Arts Foundation, Thousand Islands Records

Trade Associations

none