animator | illustrator
Banging the drum for companies, charities and organisations, to help them tell their stories.
About me
I am driven by creating purposeful work that makes a difference. I enjoy working together with my clients to bring their ideas to life with the aim to bring about awareness and create change.
Bringing a purposeful story to life in a short animation using my illustrated characters, can really capture who you are as an organisation and what you want to say. I like to get to know my clients and understand the story they want to tell and the message they want to send. I aim to help my clients build connection and trust with their audience and create animations that make a difference.
I often work with subjects that may have a sensitive nature and can be portrayed through characters rather than real life people. Animation is a great tool for this. I also love to bring a sense of humour into my animations when it is appropriate. I find a good sense of timing is always important with my work. Whatever the story, allowing enough space is key.
In my spare time I love playing music - guitar, bass guitar and drums. I play in my local church. When I was a teenager I realised that my two main passions in life were art and music and I’m continually learning how to get better at both of these. This is where I feel animation brings many of my skills together.
Meet Mr Slop, he’s an AI trawl bot
I'm proud to say all my work is created by me from my creative, human brain.
From thinking to sketching ideas and developing them, it comes from me. If I need to draft out a storyboard I draft it out sketching my ideas. Developing and refining them is all part of the process. I don't use AI functionality within software.
For animation projects where I need a voice over, I use a real voice over artist. I collaborate to achieve an end result a client expects.
I am human and it is important to me to build a relationship with my clients and not put AI slop in front of them.
Mr Slop - he can't draw, he can't be creative or original, he’s simply not human. He trawls the internet scraping copyrighted work from artists, illustrators and creatives when consent is not given for AI to scrape images to train their models.
As a member of the AOI (Association of Illustrators) I follow the industry standard licensing model for commissioning illustration. I can produce original illustrations for your project tailored for your needs. When a client commissions illustration or animated illustrations from me they buy a licence. This protects me and my clients. As originator of my artwork I own the copyright. This means I have control of the reproduction of my work. By providing a licence I give permission for my client to use my work and they pay for what they need.
To find out more about the AOI (Association of Illustrators) licensing model please visit this pdf link: https://theaoi.com/resources/contracts/licensing-illustration/
Learn More
To find out more about the great campaigning work that the AOI (Association of Illustrators) are doing for illustrators, animators and the wider creative community on this matter please visit:
