Morgan Francis began his life in animation spending his summer holidays sitting under a desk (restrained) in the Ink & Paint department of the Halas & Batchelor Studios while his mother painted cells and his stepfather animated on popular TV shows such as The Addams Family, The Jackson 5 & The Osmonds. His first 'hands on' experience was painting rabbits on the movie Watership Down (1978 Goldcrest Films), which rapidly progressed to painting hammers for the Pink Floyd film The Wall (1982 MGM). After that there was no stopping him, and he spent a slightly hazy 10 years working in the animated commercials industry as a freelance background artist, layout artist, assistant animator, animator, checker and cameraman. Very nearly burnt out with exhaustion he took a few years off to drive a truck from London to Cape Town (6 months of fun in Africa), travel the South Pacific and end up working as a gardener in Brisbane Australia. Fun over, it was time to return to animation.