animation

Building A Generous Church

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When the Church Of England launched a new drive to explain, explore and promote the philosophy of generosity, they commissioned me to create this animated film.

This represented more than just the idea of giving charitably, but living a generous life and building a community based on it.

A real pleasure to work on, from the initial conversation, through the style frames I developed and onwards it always felt like it was moving in the right direction.

Diocese of Guildford Parish Share

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This is a cut-down of a much longer video I designed and animated for the Diocese of Guilford to explain changes to their funding system.

I tried to inject as much character and fun as possible to hold audience attention in what could be a dry subject matter.

Please note this is a cutdown, so the voiceover and narrative won’t make complete sense here! You can see the full video here

Audio by John Gray at RoomService Media

BBC Panorama – When Kids Abuse Kids

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To help deal with a sensitive subject, I was commissioned by the BBC to create animations for a Panorama documentary on ‘peer-on-peer’ child abuse. To help anonymise the victims but still tell their stories in a powerful manner, over six minutes of hand-drawn animated content was created to accompany four different children’s accounts.

Working with my wife, Kate Munday, we produced four different treatments to make each case identifiably unique. It was an extremely challenging project in many ways; partly in terms of the amount of content we needed to create but mostly the emotional impact of working on these stories and the difficulty of dealing with the subject in an accurate yet sensitive manner.

Available on the BBC iPlayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b098tgsl/panorama-when-kids-abuse-kids

Channel 4: From Russia To Iran

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For the fourth series of Levison Wood’s epic journeys around the world, October Films commissioned me to create titles and map graphics, tracking his travels across the Caucasus mountain range from Russia to Iran.

Building on the work I’d done for the previous series in Central America, these graphics took on a more rugged and grainy aesthetic, with the country names hewn into the landscapes. Based on satellite imagery and elevation data, we found a balance between realism and capturing the vastness of the Caucasus mountain range.  It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in August 2017.

Driver Youth Trust

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I was approached by The Driver Youth Trust to create a video that would explain both their findings on the current state of SEND education in Britain and their visions for its future.

The challenge was to cover an extremely complex and nuanced subject accurately and clearly, whilst still representing the human side of the issue.

The Driver Youth Trust is a national charity dedicated to improving the life chances of children and young people with a focus on those with literacy difficulties and who may have SEND, particularly children with dyslexia.

www.driveryouthtrust.com
www.tommunday.com

Map from Walking The Americas

Walking The Americas maps

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Working with Robert Grieves, we produced a series of 3D maps for the Channel 4 TV series, Walking The Americas. Using actual elevation data and the GPS of the routes walked, we created textured terrains that accurately represented the journey whilst conveying the tropical environment of Central America.

Several maps were made for each episode and an overall map travelling right from Mexico to Colombia as the title sequence for the series.

Broadcast January 2017