Animation Buddies
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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!
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My old boss at CITV. Top doodling dude. Best job I ever had, Jefe!
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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'...
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All the stuff your kid watches on telly nowadays? Jards probably made that. Unless it's rubbish, then it was definitely someone else.
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Old-timey ITV legend Frosty taught me just about everything I know about design (but sadly not everything she knew).
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Kick ass AVID editor and all round charming fella. But beats me at chess, so overall he's an awful person.
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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).
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Co-founder of ace design shop 23North? Designer par excellence? Beres connoisseur? Oh, fo sho!
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The other 23North honcho, top-drawer graphic designer, and the loveliest of dudes. All hail the King of the North!
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Sorry everyone else, Lee's my hippest friend.
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Literal doctor of sound-stuff and all round nice guy. Hi Dr Nick!
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My man Kris will Pimp Yo' Brand and graphic design the ever-living heck out of your print and online goodies.
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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.
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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).
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Graphic designer to the North West and all-round good egg, WALSHY!
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Two halves of an amazing creative team. Gotta love my Fat Free fam!
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Tim appears to create stop motion animation at about 25 frames per second. He's the world's first real time stop motion animator.
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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.
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The one and only Beast, 8 litre twin turbo motion graphics powerhouse!
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Head of CITV back in the day - bears the responsibility for more bum and fart jokes than three 5 year olds combined.
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The most talented CG wizard who's ever semi-accidentally roundhouse kicked me in the goolies.
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Charming illustrations from a charming illustrator.
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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).
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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?
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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.
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My production manager home-girl is known for kicking ass and taking names (and maintaining an accurate spreadsheet of asses kicked and names taken).
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Head honcho making magic in miniature at Second Home Studios.
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Musical genius. Binned off the UK for Barcelona years ago, so also the regular variety of genius too.
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My old partner in graphics, a brilliant eye for colour, and he'll art yer flippin' socks right off.
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Puts the "Yorkshire" into "Top notch Yorkshire graphic designer".