Animation Buddies
The work on this site is almost always part of a team effort. Animators, illustrators, designers, editors, producers, musicians - if it takes a village to raise a kid, then it takes an entire sticky-floored, hipster, Soho dive-bar to make a video.
Here are some of the folk I've worked with on this stuff!
My old boss at CITV. Top doodling dude. Best job I ever had, Jefe!
Like a leather-skinned gunslinger, Wal claims he's hung up his Wacom pen for good to concentrate on drilling fancy designs into stuff. Just one more job, Wal, for old times'...
All the stuff your kid watches on telly nowadays? Jards probably made that. Unless it's rubbish, then it was definitely someone else.
Old-timey ITV legend Frosty taught me just about everything I know about design (but sadly not everything she knew).
Kick ass AVID editor and all round charming fella. But beats me at chess, so overall he's an awful person.
The monstrously creative brains behind CITV's Bafta-winning Share a Story competition, and now my kids' favourite award-winning author (well, this week at least).
Co-founder of ace design shop 23North? Designer par excellence? Beres connoisseur? Oh, fo sho!
The other 23North honcho, top-drawer graphic designer, and the loveliest of dudes. All hail the King of the North!
Sorry everyone else, Lee's my hippest friend.
Literal doctor of sound-stuff and all round nice guy. Hi Dr Nick!
My man Kris will Pimp Yo' Brand and graphic design the ever-living heck out of your print and online goodies.
In the eyes of my kids, pretty much the most impressive thing I've done so far in my life is knowing Grandmaster Glitch. They could be right.
When he's not wasting his time saving the actual world, Tom motions some seriously mean graphics. Does things in C4D that'll make your eyes bleed (but in a good way).
Graphic designer to the North West and all-round good egg, WALSHY!
Two halves of an amazing creative team. Gotta love my Fat Free fam!
Tim appears to create stop motion animation at about 25 frames per second. He's the world's first real time stop motion animator.
Freelance creative for the Beeb amongst others. I've worked with Hollywood Dave on loads of projects, including making Bruce Lee chop-a-chop in his Who Got Stuck In series.
The one and only Beast, 8 litre twin turbo motion graphics powerhouse!
Head of CITV back in the day - bears the responsibility for more bum and fart jokes than three 5 year olds combined.
The most talented CG wizard who's ever semi-accidentally roundhouse kicked me in the goolies.
Charming illustrations from a charming illustrator.
One link was never gonna be enough for Manchester animation mogul and all-round nice guy, Wes (partly because he deserves more than one link, but also because he heads up animation nerd nirvana AnimationToolkit).
Editor and creative at the BBC, Rach will whip you up a dynamite promo whilst making a steady torrent of infantile jokes about bums. What's not to love about that?
Me and my Penshaw pal Yvette made the first ever all-signed trail for Signed Stories while we were at ITV. Flippin' groundbreakers right here, baby.
My production manager home-girl is known for kicking ass and taking names (and maintaining an accurate spreadsheet of asses kicked and names taken).
Head honcho making magic in miniature at Second Home Studios.
Musical genius. Binned off the UK for Barcelona years ago, so also the regular variety of genius too.
My old partner in graphics, a brilliant eye for colour, and he'll art yer flippin' socks right off.
Puts the "Yorkshire" into "Top notch Yorkshire graphic designer".