Michael Cawood - Animated Filmmaker

About Me

Hi, I'm Mike. I'm a Lead Character Animator, Animation Supervisor, Character Designer, Animation Writer, Video Editor, Character Rigger, Storyboard Artist, Previs Animator, Games Designer, Recruiter and Mentor... phew, that's a long list so I'll just settle for Animated Filmmaker, that seems to encompass most of it. Within the confines of this website you'll find a sample of my pet projects, University work and some of the things I've been doing professionally too, or at least the stuff that's out in the public domain (some things will just have to stay under wraps for now). I've dropped in a few candid comments here and there for your amusement (or terror) and I'll be dropping the odd film review and animation industry related opinion into my Blog section. Make sure you pay regular visits to my CG Short Development page. Please feel free to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

Animation Demoreel

This reel features my animation from three commercials my 11 Second Club entry, Dogs on a Seesaw and some of my work on Happy Feet and Prince Caspian. It also shows highlights from my cinematic/FMV work on Rock Band 2, Kameo and my other personal projects, In case I don't see ya and What did I just say?. If you'd like a showreel shot breakdown or a more up to date demoreel please contact me.

If you go to my Filmography you can see a run through of my biggest projects over the years. There's also 85 free movies for you to watch in various genres including my traditional 2D short films, my work in film, commercials and games using 3D computer animation, some personal work and a few demo reels.

CG Short Film in development

2006 to 2009 - Character based CG Short

I'm developing a short computer generated film called 'Devils, Angels and Dating'. The project has picked up a team of artists and we've formed an online forum to collaborate on the project. Please take a look at the latest progress at the development diary.

Synopsis: Mr. Cupid, Master Devil and a rather sexy young judge, jury and executioner in the form of Miss Death gather in the After Life War Room to attend to their daily routine of manipulating our lives down on Earth with modern techniques that would put our internet dating generation to shame. Each of them, reluctantly compelled to play out their role in the game of life in order to maintain the balance. There's an unspoken attraction in the room and their true contradictory personalities are gradually revealed to each other, when someone gets a bright idea and re-purposes their high tech weapons to turn the tide of war and flip everything on it's head.

Have a look at the art and designs so far. If you'd like to contribute your talents feel free to get in touch.

Effects and Compositing Demoreel

This is a reel of my varied effects and compositing work on a couple of HD CGI based projects. Most of this material was created at a budget with very few specialist professional tools, so it was quite an interesting challenge to invent this stuff with what I had available to hand.

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