Russell Howards Good News Series 5 - Avalon Television , United Kingdom
2011 - Animator
Graphics and animation for SERIES 5 of the show.

Worked closely with the talent to produce content for the show on an intense weekly basis.

Show & Tell (Channel 4) - Tinderbox Television , United Kingdom
2011 - Graphic Designer
8 x 40 mins

I designed and implemented graphics for this show hosted by comedian Chris Addison for E4.

I was also a VT editor for the several VTs throughout the 8 episode series.

Russell Howard's Good News Series 4 - Avalon Television , United Kingdom
2011 - Animator
Graphics and animation for SERIES 4 of the show.

Worked closely with the talent to produce content for the show on an intense weekly basis.

Africa United (Feature Film) - Blink Productions / Pathé , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2010 - Visual Effects
Still in production, worked closesly with the animation director of Blink to create the animated sequences of a live action feature film about a group of kids from Rwanda on a journey to the opening ceremony of the World Cup.

A lot of compositing photographic elements from Rwanda, animating shots, compositing bluescreen footage of puppets.

This film is set to be released near October 2010.

The Idiot Awards - TwoFour / E4 , United Kingdom
2010 - Visual Effects
Created all GFX and effects including title sequence and stings for this TV Show.

50 Greatest Plastic Surgery Shockers - TwoFour / E4 , United Kingdom
2010 - Visual Effects
Created all GFX and effects including title sequence and number stings (50 - 1) for this TV Show.

Russell Howard's Good News Series 3 - Avalon / BBC Three , United Kingdom
2010 - Animator
Graphics and animation for SERIES 3 of the show.

Common Film Ground - Clever Pie for BBC Online , United Kingdom
2010 - Editor
On set DIT for this short sketch shot on Canon 5D.

Processed, organised and then edited the footage with the director and producer.

This video aims to be released online on the BBC Comedy website.

Russell Howard's Good News Series 2 - Avalon UK , United Kingdom
2010 - Animator (with Live Action)
Graphics, Animation and Editing for this BBC Three show.

Created a style for the presentation of clips and headlines as well as creating short clips and mashups for the show's content.

I also worked in the studio on a weekly basis providing last minute graphics and backdrops for projection to the gallery and EVS system.

Ardbeg Rollercoaster - Th1ng (Thing One) , United Kingdom
2010 - Animator
Working with one other compositor / animator we created a rollercoaster ride through the history of the Ardbeg whisky company for their corporate animated film.

Shots were created and composed in Photoshop then taken to After Effects for final animation and compositing using live action elements as well as animating photographic elements.

Pack of Pain - Dynamind Productions , United Kingdom
2010 - Visual Effects
For this short action film I was responsible for visual effects such as sky replacements and compositing live action elements such as smoke, bullets, fire, explosions.

I also colour graded this film to a very stylised and unique look.

Glass - Memory Machine - London Film Academy , Unspecified
2009 - Visual Effects
I worked as the Visual Effects Supervisor on the shoot for this music video and currently working on post-production. The role involved supervising a crew on a shoot involving greenscreen for a complicated set of shots that will be composited together. Worked with Phil Meheux (DoP, Casino Royale) on this shoot.

In the Zone - Teeside University , Unspecified
2009 - Visual Effects
Promotional film for Teeside University. This required advanced green-screen compositing working with room-sized green screen set ups.

Paolo Nutini - Pencil Full of Lead (Music Video) - Academy Films , England
2009 - Visual Effects
Rotoscoping, Blue Screen compositing and composing final shots.

Working with 2K RED footage and digital stills stop motion animation.

Frontman (Feature Film, 100 mins) - Beat24 Productions , United Kingdom
2009 - Editor (Online)
Created motion graphics title sequence and performing colour grading for this feature film.

Tomorrow - 4mations Digital Shorts (Channel 4) , England
2009 - Visual Effects
Green-screen compositing and final compositing shots

Oops TV Series 2 - Sky One - Silver River Productions , England
2009 - Editor (Offline)
Edited offline assemblies for 25 x 44min episodes of a comedy archive clip show presented by Justin Lee Collins. For Sky One.

One Night In Emergency - BBC Scotland - Silver River Productions , England
2009 - Editor, Assistant
60min drama for BBC Scotland

Logging of good takes into Avid and digitising digi beta tapes for the Editor.

The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance (Music Video) - Academy Films , United Kingdom
2009 - Visual Effects
Rotoscoping and Compositing visual effects to mix live action puppetry with stop motion animation.

Shots involved green-screen compositing, rod removals, rotoscoping characters and compositions of final shots.

Oops TV Series 1 - Sky One - Silver River Productions , England
2009 - Editor (Offline)
Edited offline assemblies for 25 x 22min episodes of a comedy archive clip show presented by Justin Lee Collins. For Sky One.

Team Fostering Adverts 1 & 2 - Team Fostering , England
2008 - Visual Effects
Commissioned to produce two advertisements for broadcast in the North East during prime time.

Production was animation-based and involved Visual Effects supervision and creation, as well as composition of the final shot.

Sirens of the Sea - Feet First Dance , England
2007 - Director/Cameraperson
Short piece used as projection for a North East dance company.

Film involved underwater shooting and visual effects/grading.

Melancholy Soldier - Northumbria University , England
2007 - Director
Director/DOP/Editor/Visual FX for a short film based in war time. Involved directing a cast of 20 people and creating visual effects.

Inc - Northumbria University , England
2007 - Director of Photography
Short film in which an office of conscious computers take over a workplace. Thriller/Mystery

Be the Best - Northumbria University , England
2007 - Director of Photography
DOP for a university film commenting on the advertising and media used to promote the Territorial Army. Production involved recreating scenes similar to those in the advertisements.

I was also responsible for special fx and visual fx.

Moving On and Moving Out - Moving On Durham , England
2006 - Director
An Interactive DVD of shorts produced to highlight the problems of homelessness in the Durham area. The DVD also provided solutions and advice and was accompanied by a publication to hand out to local authorities and schools.

Bus Buddies Training DVD - North East Regional Youth Assembly , England
2006 - Director
I directed, shot and edited/authored an interactive DVD for use in training within local bus companies highlighting the importance of a good attitude towards young people.

Daniel Dreams - N/A , England
2005 - Director of Photography
DOP and editor for a short thriller.

WINNER OF "Best Short Thriller" at the New York International Film and Video Festival November 2005

Finally Home - Teeside University , United Kingdom
2004 - Cameraperson/Editor
Attended a documentary production course and made a short 5 minute profile of ChuChu Naobi from Nigeria who had recently moved to Middlesbrough. For Teeside University 2004

Freelance - 2007 - present

2:1 BA Hons Media Production / Animation
Northumbria University, Newcastle

 BA (Hons) 2:1 Media Production

Mac Pro with Final Cut Studio & Adobe CS5.5 suite
MacBook Pro 
Canon DSLR (5D, 7D, 60D)
Sony Z1 camera and sound (owner and operator)
Panasonic HVX200 Camera and sound
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Location shooting
Directing
File Formats and Encoding
DVD Authoring
Motion Graphics and animation
Both very Mac and PC literate
Basic Avid Media Composer