Links - Animation related

Friends and colleagues

Guillaume Glachant - A good friend and animator from both MPC and Passion Pictures.
Santi Colomo - A very friendly animator I met at MPC and Passion Pictures.
Alfonso Sicilia - I worked side by side with Alfonso on a commercial at MPC.
Clare Slusar - Clare's website, featuring illustrations, animation and model work.
David Clements - My long time college buddy Dave has done some great illustrations.
Michel Morel - Michel is incredibly enthusiastic and a good friend I met working on Happy Feet.
Jamie Busby - A friend from Ark VFX, Jamie has a couple of really nice character models.
Gill Frank - My buddy Gill was the Animation Supervisor when I started at Glasgow Animation.
Terry Reilly - A very friendly guy I met working at Glasgow Animation.
Ben Sanders - Ben and I worked on Happy Feet together, great animation on this site.
Daniel Carey - One of my office buddies from Rare, Dan has some great work on his animation website.
Craig Clark - Another buddy from Ark VFX with some really good vehicle models.
Roberto Raio - A trusted friend of mine from Glasgow Animation, who I handed over the reins to.
Patrick Corrieri - Another buddy from Glasgow Animation, with a sharp eye for animation.
Nick Southam - My old friend Nick and I worked together at Rare. His blog features some great artwork.
Paul Mica - Paul and Maria are good friends and texture artists I met at various London nights out.
George Banks - I met George at Animal Logic. This is a few samples of his animation work.
Stuart Hogton - Another old Rare buddy. This one features photography, models and animation.
Craig Bradbury - My old friend Craig scored three of my old films amongst other things.
James Finlay - I knew James from college and we also started at Animal Logic on the same day.
Paul Parkes - Paul is the creator of King Arthur's Disasters, and a really great guy.

Places to find my work

Glassworks - Senior Animator on an advert
Passion Pictures - I worked on the Rock Band 2 cinematic and a Vodafone advert
The Moving Picture Company - I was a Senior Character Animator for MPC
Ark VFX - I was the Senior Animator for Ark
Rare - I was a Lead Animator (Senior Graphic Engineer) for Rare (part of Microsoft).
Glasgow Animation - I was the Animation Supervisor on a CG feature film here.
Animal Logic - I worked on 'Happy Feet' here.
Viva Pinata 2 - I worked on this game for a month or so.
Kameo.com - I was the Lead Animator on this game (for the XBox 360).
Kameo: Elements of Power (Rare website)
Kameo: Elements of Power (XBox Website)
Perfect Dark Zero (Rare website) - I have done a few advertising edits for this game and the title Rare Logo.
Perfect Dark Zero (XBox Website)
Aniboom - Youtube for animators with a regular competition for short animated films.
Google Video - This is a link to one of a number of my films on 'Google Video', a good place to find all kinds of videos.
MySpace Video - One of a number of my films on 'MySpace', an excellent social networking site.
YouTube - A very popular short video website, this is a link to one of my films on show there.
Crackle - My student film is currently racking up millions of viewings here.
Silk Sacks - I made this website and designed the company mascot.

News, Information and Magazines

Animation World Network - One of the top online animation magazines.
Animation Magazine - This one you'll need to subscribe to, to get the best out of it.
VFX World - A special effects online magazine
VFX Talk - Another special effects online magazine
Gamasutra - The art and science of making games - a professional game developer's site.
Animated News - Animation related news site.
The Animation Podcast - A well organised collection of inspiring audio recordings from some legendary animators.
High End 3D - A good place to go for plug-ins, and general CGI stuff.
3D Total - Online CGI magazine with forums and galleries.
Anim Watch - A showcase magazine for independent animation.
Ain't it cool news - A decent movie reviews and previews website.
IGN - One of the big online games magazines.

Forums and chat rooms

CG Society - A computer graphics forum.
CGChar - Character animation forum.
Animation Nation - A really good animation industry forum.
Computer Arts - Forum for computer artists.
Concept Art - Concept Art forum with loads of artwork to browse.
GFX Artist - A community of artist galleries.
Deviant Art - A similar community of artist galleries.
DV Doctor - A collection of video editing forums. Check out Computer Video Magazine.
Pigs Fly - This is a post production and editing forum.
International Game Developers Association - A forum for games developers/creators.

Other interesting sites

11 Second Club - The return of a much cherished monthly animation competition.
Strut Your Reel - An excellent collection of links to a large number of personal artist websites (old version of the website).
Animation Meat - A really cool collection of animation notes and lessons from the professionals.
Lichiman - This site offers a number of free character rigs that you can animate.
Glamorgan Centre for Art and Design Technology - This is where I went to University to do my degree in animation.
I Film - An online movie archive.
IMDB - Another online movie archive.
Moby Games - An online game credits database.