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Gateshead, England, United Kingdom

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Leading the team across most projects in the studio, creating directors' treatments and presenting them to our clients - Art Direction, Motion design, and animation. 3D generalist specializing in 3D animation, directing, Design, look dev, lighting, and compositing.

Completed the full character animation program

United Arab Emirates

Head of the content department at IMPACTBBDO - Roles included working closely with the Creative Directors to help conceptualize commercials for various media platforms. I was also charged with Creative Direction, Directing, Animating, editing, and finishing content films and commercials for TV and Social media platforms on international and regional brands such as Pepsi, Lays, Mars and Visa. Software: Autodesk Maya, Arnold and Redshift, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Nuke and Substance Painter.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As a freelance 3D Generalist and 3D animator, I worked with local and international clients to bring their creative vision to life through animation and design. Working on a range of different projects including poster campaigns as well as commercials for TV and Social media platforms. Clients included Nike, SuperSport, Mnet, and The City of Sydney.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

As a Senior Motion Graphics Designer and Animation Director, my duties included - working closely with the Creative Director to achieve the correct visual treatment per project, as well as overseeing, owning, and running with that visual treatment making sure the team stayed on track and on design. My roles included art direction, style frame development, 3D animation, Modeling, rigging and compositing for commercials, short-form promos for various satellite channels on DStv, as well as event AV's. Software used - Autodesk Maya, Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, Mari, and Zbrush.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Head of the small motion design department. My responsibilities were to connect with the creative leads and to produce and execute all forms of digital animation for websites and social media platforms for local and international brands advertising in South Africa.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Full-time role at a creative agency, providing 3D animation, look dev and compositing services to a long list of local and international clients and advertising agencies. My duties involved modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, animating, rendering, and compositing. Occasionally I was called on to help out in the illustration department. Software used Autodesk Maya, V-ray for Maya, After Effects, Zbrush, and the Foundries Mari.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

In charge of the 3D animation department, my day to day responsibilities was to manage a small team of 3D generalists and animators and to work closely with the Design creative lead to come up with eye-catching promos and channel branding/imagery for the biggest cable TV network in Africa, DTSV, SuperSport and M-Net with over 20 local and regional sporting and entertainment channels. In 2008 we branded and created the show imagery for the first-ever MTV Africa music awards which we backed up with a second run, in 2009.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

This is where I cut my teeth in industry - part of a small extremely talented team. My role spanned across all aspects of post-production from 3D animation, compositing, 2D animation in After Effects for TV commercials to Music videos, and Channel imaging.

Advanced Animation Certificate, Animation

Bachelor'S Degree, Graphic Design

High School