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David Bowie - You're Not Alone

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone

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There are great projects and then there are dream projects.  David Bowie: You’re Not Alone at Lightroom definitely falls into the latter.

Working with a brilliant team from 59 Studio, I had the humungous privilege of creating several different chapters for this show, concentrating mainly on the Creative Curiosity and Characters sections.

Using a variety of techniques, these largely leant on a tactile aesthetic: paper weaves, flip books, Bowie paper puppets, stop motion glitter and flying books. There’s also a tromp l’oeil journey through an art gallery and a collaged Bromley of the 1950s and then 70s, and even a trip to Bowie’s childhood bedroom (with my kids hiding under the duvet there). 

But the star of the show is always Bowie, whether photographed by Brian Duffy or Terry O’Neill, or captured for the Dick Cavett show looking deathly thin but still belting out the finest version of Young Americans, he remains completely magnetic.

Might be a few Easter Eggs in there too – wonder how many people have spotted the laughing gnome yet?

Sting Vegas Residency

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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.

Moonwalkers with Tom Hanks

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Working for 59 Studio, 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, from JFK’s speech in 1962, through NASA’s incredible engineering in the following years, to the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. It was an honour to get to work with this team and the original NASA footage to create a celebration of the still unbelievable achievement of getting mankind to the moon.

Five Telegrams – Anna Meredith

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Photo by Justin Sutcliffe.

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.

Building A Generous Church

Character animation, Charity, Explainers, Uncategorized, Video, , , , , , , ,

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

International Opera Awards 2015

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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.