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, Talent Recruiter and Animation 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.
If you go to my Filmography you can see a
run through of my biggest projects over the years. There's also 84 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.
I'm developing a short computer generated film
called 'Devils, Angels and Dating'.
Cupid, The Devil and a rather sexy Death gather in Heaven's War Room
to attend to their daily routine of manipulating our lives on Earth,
when someone gets a bright idea and turns their high tech tools into
the weapons of love. Mix mobile phones and
online dating and you've got a recipe for an unexpected love
triangle that turns into a frenzied shootout.
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.