2021 saw Sting launch his Las Vegas residency, My Songs covering his whole career’s work. I had the incredible opportunity of working with 59 Productions on this, creating animated visuals in the dynamic, theatrical environment designed around him. This included working on perhaps my favourite of his songs: I Hung My Head.
Working for 59 Productions, this was a Lightroom production co-written by Tom Hanks and Christopher Riley telling the story of those who have stood on the moon.
Towering 12 metres high and with fully immersive projection, Lightroom is the perfect place to get the scale of all this across. My work was largely concentrated in the opening ten minutes of the show and was unbelievably exciting to get to work with this team and the original NASA footage.
Working for 59 Productions, this was a BBC Proms commission for the opening of the Proms in 2018, a twenty minute animated display to accompany Anna Meredith’s new work, Five Telegrams.
Projected both on the interior and exterior of the Royal Albert Hall, it followed an exploration of communication in the First World War.
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.
Saints Foundation is the charity of Southampton FC, doing excellent work in their community. It was an honour to create this video for them setting out their vision for the work they do across Southampton.
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
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
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.
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
Animated video to accompany editorial content on investment advice
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
Showreel of my work over the last few years
Music ‘Cwtsh’ by very kind permission of the unbelievably brilliant Euros Childs. In fact, stop watching this and go listen to him at euroschilds.co.uk
Music video for Steve Puddle’s Cold Hearted Land
The track is taken from the latest album ‘WAA!! Radish‘ released 21st March 2016
More info at at stevepuddle.com
Track available at Bandcamp
Working with the fantastic Matthew Clark, I supplied the set motion graphics (and some post) for most of series 9, even including a little bit of interactive when called for. Not sure how wise popping up a load of BBC footage might be here so have a ruddy lovely old pile of stills instead…
I was commissioned by production company Grain Media to create a video for The Rules charity’s new campaign, Our Land, Our Business.
Also featured on the Guardian website here
Hosted at the Savoy Theatre in London, the 2015 International Opera Awards commissioned me to produce all video content for the event. This included an opening sequence to set the tone for the evening ahead.
A high speed journey through various operas, it was a hugely enjoyable project to research. On the evening the beginning section interacted with the surrounding set (designed by Tim Bird) but that sadly isn’t captured here.
I was approached by the charity ARK to make a short film explaining their vision for the future of Ugandan education and how their academy model can work in a developing nation.
The film was initially used for their major annual fundraising gala event and then adapted to be a stand-alone piece.
Titles and stings for the BBC2 comedy series The Ginge, The Geordie, and The Geek, made with Emily Davis.
Working with the Red Cross again I created a video to explain and highlight the work of their logistics department, GLS. Keeping with the Red Cross branding and simplifying a complex global organisation, a simple line and sphere motif was developed.
Sound by Guilt Free Post, voiceover by Michael Fenton Stevens.
It was an honour to be commissioned to make the opening titles for the feature film The Last Sparks Of Sundown.
My work was completed in the summer of 2014, but I only got to see the film a year later. Filmed on a micro-budget, starring The Pajama Men, Miles Jupp and Emily Bevan, Empire magazine called it “A fast-paced country house farce with verve, invention and a good heart.”
Nothing beats seeing your work on the big screen but you’ll have to make do with Vimeo for now…
